Home Assistant Cloud in Home Assistant
cloud
part of Home Assistant since 0.60
Home Assistant Cloud connects Home Assistant to cloud services, enabling backup, voice interaction, and remote access. It supports speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and conversation agents for hands-free control.
Typical uses
- Backup of Home Assistant data
- Voice-controlled home automation
- Text-to-speech announcements
- Speech-to-text command recognition
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, push – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud; changes arrive straight away, but only while the internet connection and the service are up.
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Part of Home Assistant itself
- Installations
- 162,921 (22.7 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Backup, Speech-to-text, Text-to-speech, Voice
- Provides
- Binary sensor, Conversation agent, Speech-to-text, Text-to-speech
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/cloud
- Python packages
hass-nabucasa==2.8.1, openai==3.26.0
Setup
- Nothing to install: this is part of Home Assistant and available as soon as it is running.
Known issues and fixes
8 open issues and 21 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Home Assistant Cloud in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.10.2.
Open
- open The Nabu Casa remote UI keeps disconnecting or reloading after updating to Home Assistant 2026.9.0 Affects: Nabu Casa
- open Uploading backups to Home Assistant Cloud fails with an SSL/TLS error related to a bad record MAC
- open Cloud backup uploads fail because the MD5 checksum does not match the expected value since 2026.7.0
- open After upgrading to 2026.3.1, Home Assistant Cloud fails to establish a connection
- open Using ffmpeg with the Nabu Casa Cloud endpoint results in an error code 187 Affects: Nabu Casa
- open Reporting state to Google via Home Assistant Cloud stops working until the system is restarted after a lost acknowledgment
- open Reported problem #183008 Affects: Nabu Casa
- open Google Assistant reports a sync failure even though the SYNC and QUERY commands through Nabu Casa succeed Affects: Google Assistant
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.10.2 Alexa devices may require re-linking after updates to the cloud entity registry
- fixed in 2026.9.0 The title for STT Labs was unclear and has been made more descriptive Affects: STT Labs
- fixed in 2026.9.0 The auto-login state for Nabu Casa was not being read correctly from the controller
- fixed in 2026.9.0 Logging out of Home Assistant Cloud did not properly remove the configuration entry
- fixed in 2026.9.0 The Cloud Labs feature title included a redundant integration name that has been removed Affects: Cloud Labs
- fixed in 2026.2.2 Time objects in Cloud conversation tool results were not properly serialized in JSON format
- fixed in 2026.2.0 Chat log attachments in the Cloud integration were not handled correctly
- fixed in 2025.12.0 Cloud LLM generation required strict response formats that were not always compatible
- fixed in 2025.12.0 Bug fix #157402
- fixed in 2025.11.3 The CloudhookURL setup for the mobile app had issues that have been resolved Affects: mobile app
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of October 25, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
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Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration
The description was written by a language model from the facts listed here, not taken from the documentation.