Home Assistant Supervisor in Home Assistant
hassio
part of Home Assistant since 0.42
The Home Assistant Supervisor integration connects Home Assistant with the system supervisor, enabling management of core Home Assistant functions. It provides entities for backup, diagnostics, updates, and system monitoring.
Typical uses
- Monitor system status
- Manage backups
- Check for updates
- Control supervisor settings
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Integration
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 438,656 (64.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Backup, Binary sensor, Sensor, Switch, Update
- Provides
- Backup, Binary sensor, Diagnostics, Sensor, Switch, Update
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/supervisor
- Python packages
aiohasupervisor==0.6.0
Setup
- This integration is set up in configuration.yaml, not in the user interface.
- The documentation lists the exact entries; restart Home Assistant after adding them.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation Update notifications
- Automation Automated Daily Snapshot
- Automation Home Assistant Auto-update
- Automation Advanced Auto-Updater
- Automation Send a mobile notification when add-on update is available
- Automation Renew Let's Encrypt Certificate
Known issues and fixes
18 open issues and 27 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Home Assistant Supervisor in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.1.
Open
- open Removing a backup from a network-attached storage does not update the list in Home Assistant
- open Updating applications automatically or manually is not possible
- open The DNS resolver sometimes fails to return complete domain name information over UDP
- open Network storage settings lose the password and username
- open Updating Home Assistant Core fails with an internet connection error
- open Apps may incorrectly show an update is available when it is not yet ready
- open Apps cannot be restored from a backup during initial setup
- open Systems using only IPv4 cannot update due to an IPv6 requirement
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.9.1 Users are warned that removing an app will delete its data during repair processes
- fixed in 2026.8.2 Configuration entries for Hassio are created during setup instead of later
- fixed in 2026.7.3 Add-on update status is refreshed after reloading the store through the Supervisor API
- fixed in 2026.7.2 The Hassio coordinator is refreshed after an operating system update is installed
- fixed in 2026.7.0 An error in job subscription handling was corrected
- fixed in 2026.6.0 The Supervisor is ensured to be up to date during the onboarding process
- fixed in 2026.5.2 An error occurred when specifying folders during partial backups
- fixed in 2026.5.1 An error occurred when handling authentication requests on the Supervisor Unix socket
- fixed in 2026.2.3 A progress indicator is shown during the backup phase of updates
- fixed in 2025.11.0 Deprecated add-ons are no longer repaired
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
The description was written by a language model from the facts listed here, not taken from the documentation.