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HomeKit Bridge in Home Assistant

homekit part of Home Assistant since 0.64

Local, push Set up in the user interface

HomeKit Bridge is an official Home Assistant integration for Voice. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.

Facts about this integration

Compatible with Home Assistant
yes, official integration
Connection
Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Setup
in the user interface
Kind
Integration
Installations
92,187 (13.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Voice
Provides
Diagnostics
Found automatically via
Network discovery (Zeroconf)
Maintained by
@bdraco
Python packages
HAP-python==5.0.0, fnv-hash-fast==2.0.3, homekit-audio-proxy==1.2.1, PyQRCode==1.2.1, base36==0.1.1

Setup

  1. Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
  2. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  3. Click "Add integration" and search for HomeKit Bridge.
  4. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Known issues and fixes

14 open issues and 12 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for HomeKit Bridge in the Home Assistant issue tracker.

Open

  • open Reported problem #159975 since December 29, 2025 · 5 reactions · 8 comments · #159975
  • open Reported problem #172090 since May 24, 2026 · 2 reactions · 8 comments · #172090
  • open Reported problem #181002 since September 1, 2026 · 2 reactions · 2 comments · #181002
  • open Reported problem #146741 since June 13, 2025 · 0 reactions · 12 comments · #146741
  • open Reported problem #162691 since February 10, 2026 · 0 reactions · 6 comments · #162691
  • open Reported problem #157319 since November 26, 2025 · 0 reactions · 6 comments · #157319
  • open Reported problem #175621 since July 4, 2026 · 0 reactions · 4 comments · #175621
  • open Reported problem #171408 since May 19, 2026 · 0 reactions · 4 comments · #171408

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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