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Home Assistant Core in Home Assistant

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Quality: Internal

Home Assistant Core is an official Home Assistant integration for Other.

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
185,475 (27.1 % 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

4 open issues and 3 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 2026.5.3.

Open

  • open Restoring entities during startup can overwhelm the system, causing other functions to stop working. since July 26, 2026 · 1 reaction · 1 comment · #177249
  • open Automations may experience a delay when turning on lights, unlike manual controls which work instantly. since July 9, 2026 · 0 reactions · 6 comments · #176170
  • open Storage usage for entities without a unique identifier may grow indefinitely, leading to potential performance issues. since July 2, 2026 · 0 reactions · 2 comments · #175411
  • open New device entity IDs may not include the area information unless the device name is explicitly changed. since August 14, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #179164

Fixed

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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