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Group in Home Assistant

group part of Home Assistant since pre 0.7

Calculated Set up in the user interface Quality: Internal

Group is an official Home Assistant integration for Binary sensor, Button, Cover, Event, Fan, Helper, Light, Lock, Media player, Notifications, Organization, Sensor, Switch and Valve. Works on data Home Assistant already has, without a device of its own.

Facts about this integration

Compatible with Home Assistant
yes, official integration
Connection
Calculated – Works on data Home Assistant already has, without a device of its own.
Setup
in the user interface
Kind
Helper
Quality scale
Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
Installations
167,712 (24.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Binary sensor, Button, Cover, Event, Fan, Helper, Light, Lock, Media player, Notifications, Organization, Sensor, Switch, Valve
Provides
Binary sensor, Button, Cover, Event, Fan, Light, Lock, Media player, Notifications, Sensor, Switch, Valve
Maintained by
@home-assistant/core

Setup

  1. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  2. Click "Add integration" and search for Group.
  3. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Blueprints that use this integration

  • Automation Frigate Notifications (0.14.0.3l) ♥ 607 · Import · Forum
  • Automation Color Loop ♥ 41 · Import · Forum
  • Automation [Occupancy] Auto Room Occupancy ♥ 13 · Import · Forum
  • Automation HVAC Pause V1.7.2 ♥ 13 · Import · Forum
  • Automation Automatisation of heat controll ♥ 10 · Import · Forum
  • Automation Automatic air conditioner for winter and summer, monitoring presence, window status, water level and time slot. ♥ 9 · Import · Forum

All blueprints for it

Known issues and fixes

10 open issues and 5 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Group in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2025.12.0.

Open

  • open Notifications sent through the UI to groups do not work as expected since August 10, 2024 · 17 reactions · 34 comments · #123558
  • open Light groups do not apply translations for effects correctly since April 1, 2025 · 1 reaction · 11 comments · #142004
  • open Sensor groups incorrectly report missing device classes from other sensors even when set since August 3, 2025 · 1 reaction · 10 comments · #149894
  • open Groups of lights do not account for individual light limits when adjusting settings since June 4, 2025 · 0 reactions · 15 comments · #146136
  • open Entities in groups lose their state class and repairs do not resolve the issue since October 2, 2025 · 0 reactions · 10 comments · #153454
  • open Volume control for media player groups fails due to incorrect data type handling since May 14, 2026 · 0 reactions · 5 comments · #170716
  • open Group helper entities start in an unavailable state when first created since July 14, 2026 · 0 reactions · 4 comments · #176522
  • open Toggle commands for light groups and switch-as-x members stop working after an update if another integration handles toggling since May 12, 2026 · 0 reactions · 3 comments · #170451

Fixed

  • fixed in 2025.12.0 Group notifications now handle missing titles without causing errors Fix #157171

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.

Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →

Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration

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