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HomeKit Device in Home Assistant

homekit_controller part of Home Assistant since 0.68

Local, push Set up in the user interface

HomeKit Device is an official Home Assistant integration for Alarm, Binary sensor, Climate, Cover, Fan, Health, Hub, Humidifier, Light, Lock, Number, Sensor and Switch. 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
Single device
Installations
80,480 (11.8 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Alarm, Binary sensor, Climate, Cover, Fan, Health, Hub, Humidifier, Light, Lock, Number, Sensor, Switch
Provides
Alarm control panel, Binary sensor, Button, Camera, Climate, Cover, Diagnostics, Event, Fan, Humidifier, Light, Lock, Media player, Number, Select, Sensor, Switch
Found automatically via
Network discovery (Zeroconf), Bluetooth
Maintained by
@Jc2k, @bdraco
Python packages
aiohomekit==4.0.1

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 Device.
  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

11 open issues and 5 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for HomeKit Device in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.7.1.

Open

  • open Reported problem #176816 since July 19, 2026 · 3 reactions · 1 comment · #176816
  • open Reported problem #167379 since April 4, 2026 · 0 reactions · 14 comments · #167379
  • open Reported problem #179783 since August 22, 2026 · 0 reactions · 3 comments · #179783
  • open Reported problem #175408 since July 2, 2026 · 0 reactions · 2 comments · #175408
  • open Reported problem #181428 since September 6, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #181428
  • open Reported problem #181414 since September 6, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #181414
  • open Reported problem #181138 since September 3, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #181138
  • open Reported problem #179293 since August 16, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #179293

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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