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Ollama in Home Assistant

ollama part of Home Assistant since 2024.4

Local, polling Set up in the user interface

Ollama is an official Home Assistant integration for AI and Voice. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.

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 the user interface
Kind
Online service
Installations
12,050 (1.8 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
AI, Voice
Provides
Conversation agent
Maintained by
@synesthesiam
Python packages
ollama==0.6.2

Setup

  1. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  2. Click "Add integration" and search for Ollama.
  3. 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

5 open issues and 6 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Ollama in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.2.2.

Open

  • open Reported problem #167154 since April 2, 2026 · 1 reaction · 7 comments · #167154
  • open Reported problem #168943 since April 23, 2026 · 0 reactions · 6 comments · #168943
  • open Reported problem #163232 since February 17, 2026 · 0 reactions · 4 comments · #163232
  • open Reported problem #176290 since July 11, 2026 · 0 reactions · 3 comments · #176290
  • open Reported problem #170940 since May 16, 2026 · 0 reactions · 2 comments · #170940

Fixed

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 15, 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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