OpenAI in Home Assistant
openai_conversation
part of Home Assistant since 2023.2
OpenAI is an official Home Assistant integration for AI and Voice. Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Cloud, polling – Works through the manufacturer’s cloud and asks for changes at regular intervals – it depends on the internet connection and the service.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Quality scale
- Bronze – The basic requirements for a new integration are met.
- Installations
- 23,912 (3.3 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Provides
- Conversation agent, Speech-to-text, Text-to-speech
- Maintained by
- @Shulyaka
- Python packages
openai==3.26.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for OpenAI.
- 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 Add reminders via voice assist – Adds reminders using voice commands via OpenAI. Requires conversation integration and todo entities.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 20 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for OpenAI in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.10.0.
Open
- open Reported problem #187001
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.10.0 Bug fix #184541
- fixed in 2026.10.0 Bug fix #183922
- fixed in 2026.5.4 Bug fix #170956
- fixed in 2026.5.0 Bug fix #169839
- fixed in 2026.5.0 Bug fix #168093
- fixed in 2026.4.0 Bug fix #166827
- fixed in 2026.2.2 Bug fix #162490
- fixed in 2026.1.2 Bug fix #161097
- fixed in 2026.1.2 Bug fix #160979
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of October 26, 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