Tailscale in Home Assistant
tailscale
part of Home Assistant since 2021.12
Tailscale is an official Home Assistant integration for Binary sensor, Network and Sensor. 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
- Hub – several devices through one gateway or account
- Installations
- 5,083 (0.7 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Binary sensor, Network, Sensor
- Provides
- Binary sensor, Diagnostics, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @frenck
- Python packages
tailscale==0.7.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Tailscale.
- 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.
Matching add-ons
Add-ons that declare a connection to this integration in their own configuration.
Known issues and fixes
3 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Tailscale in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #148232
- open Reported problem #150938
- open Reported problem #179257
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 16, 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