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Hive in Home Assistant
hive
part of Home Assistant since 0.59
Cloud, polling
Set up in the user interface
Hive is an official Home Assistant integration for Binary sensor, Climate, Hub, Light, Sensor, Switch and Water heater. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Hub – several devices through one gateway or account
- Installations
- 3,489 (0.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Binary sensor, Climate, Hub, Light, Sensor, Switch, Water heater
- Provides
- Binary sensor, Climate, Light, Sensor, Switch, Water heater
- Found automatically via
- HomeKit pairing
- Maintained by
- @Rendili, @KJonline
- Python packages
pyhive-integration==1.0.9
Setup
- Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Hive.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Community versions in HACS
These extensions use the same domain. Installed through HACS, one of them takes the place of the official integration – usually to bring a feature or a fix sooner. Remove it again once Home Assistant has caught up.
- HACS Hive Custom Component – A custom version of the home assistant hive component
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration