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Shell Command in Home Assistant
shell_command
part of Home Assistant since 0.7.6
Local, push
Quality: Internal
Shell Command is an official Home Assistant integration for Automation. 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 configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Integration
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 37,298 (5.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Automation
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/core
Setup
- This integration is set up in configuration.yaml, not in the user interface.
- The documentation lists the exact entries; restart Home Assistant after adding them.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Script Devices Schedules Controller
- Automation Snapshot avec Délai, Script et Condition (Vidéo/Snapshot)
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 0 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Shell Command in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #176262
- open Reported problem #174279
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 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
