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Home Assistant Core in Home Assistant

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Quality: Internal

Home Assistant Core is the foundational part of Home Assistant that enables automation, scene creation, and integration with various smart home devices. It provides the infrastructure for managing and controlling connected devices within a home environment.

Typical uses

  • Creating scenes
  • Automating tasks
  • Controlling devices
  • Managing home systems

Facts about this integration

Compatible with Home Assistant
yes, official integration
Setup
in configuration.yaml
Kind
Part of Home Assistant itself
Quality scale
Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
Installations
195,696 (27.3 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Other
Provides
Scene
Maintained by
@home-assistant/core

Setup

  1. Nothing to install: this is part of Home Assistant and available as soon as it is running.

Known issues and fixes

5 open issues and 9 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Home Assistant Core in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.10.0.

Open

  • open Storage for entities without a unique identifier keeps growing indefinitely. since July 2, 2026 · 3 reactions · 3 comments · #175411
  • open Restoring entities during startup can prevent other automation callbacks from working properly. since July 26, 2026 · 1 reaction · 2 comments · #177249
  • open Automations take longer to trigger lights than manually controlling them through buttons. since July 9, 2026 · 0 reactions · 9 comments · #176170
  • open Reloading configuration entries for deprecated components provides no guidance to users. since October 23, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #188190
  • open Newly discovered devices do not include their location area in entity names by default. since August 14, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #179164

Fixed

  • fixed in 2026.10.0 Clarified that trigger behavior repairs only apply to trigger-related issues. Fix #184586 · Issue #176531
  • fixed in 2026.5.3 Fixed crashes in time-based triggers when using certain entity ID formats. Fix #171006 · Issue #164697

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.

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