Threshold in Home Assistant
threshold
part of Home Assistant since 0.34
Threshold is an official Home Assistant integration for Binary sensor, Helper and Utility. 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
- Helper
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 19,880 (2.9 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Binary sensor, Helper, Utility
- Provides
- Binary sensor
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Threshold.
- 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.
Known issues and fixes
0 open issues and 2 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Threshold in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.8.0.
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.8.0 Bug fix #177598
- fixed in 2026.5.3 Bug fix #171009
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