Mobile App in Home Assistant
mobile_app
part of Home Assistant since 0.89
The Mobile App integration connects Home Assistant with the official mobile application, enabling remote access and interaction. It allows users to monitor home status, receive notifications, and control devices from their smartphones.
Typical uses
- Monitor home status
- Receive alerts
- Control devices remotely
- Track device presence
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
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 467,380 (68.4 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Other
- Provides
- Binary sensor, Device tracker, Notifications, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/core
- Python packages
PyNaCl==1.6.2
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Mobile App.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation Frigate Notifications (0.14.0.3l)
- Automation Low Battery Notifications & Actions
- Automation Appliance Notifications & Actions
- Automation Frigate Notification (0.10.0)
- Automation Send a camera snapshot when motion is detected
- Automation Calendar Notifications & Actions
Known issues and fixes
13 open issues and 8 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Mobile App in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.5.0.
Open
- open The Android Companion App fails to reconnect to Local Push after a Home Assistant restart or update unless the app is force stopped. Affects: Android Companion App
- open Updating the Android Companion App to version 2026.9.0 causes it to open a web browser instead of launching the app directly. Affects: Android Companion app
- open Sensors in the Companion App do not match the status of their corresponding entities in Home Assistant. Affects: Companion App
- open The Mobile App fails to deliver notifications to users' devices.
- open The Mobile App incorrectly identifies a Mac Studio as an iPad.
- open The Mobile App lacks an option to enable or disable Wake Word Detection.
- open Reported problem #181441
- open A delayed confirmation of a local push notification can permanently disconnect the device from the push channel without notice.
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.5.0 Notifications from legacy notify actions in the Mobile App are now properly recorded.
- fixed in 2026.3.0 The Mobile App's notify.notify function now handles cases where target devices are not connected.
- fixed in 2026.1.0 The Mobile App now checks the connection status before registering a cloudhook URL.
- fixed in 2025.11.3 The setup process for the cloudhook URL in the Mobile App has been improved.
- fixed in 2025.11.2 The Mobile App now ensures callbacks are properly unregistered when the app is reloaded.
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.