USB Discovery in Home Assistant
usb
part of Home Assistant since 2021.9
USB Discovery is an official Home Assistant integration for Utility. 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
- Part of Home Assistant itself
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 6,096 (0.9 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Utility
- Maintained by
- @bdraco
- Python packages
aiousbwatcher==1.1.2, serialx==1.10.0
Setup
- Nothing to install: this is part of Home Assistant and available as soon as it is running.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 8 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for USB Discovery in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.1.
Open
- open Reported problem #173211
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.9.1 Bug fix #181249
- fixed in 2026.9.0 Bug fix #181074
- fixed in 2026.5.2 Bug fix #170160
- fixed in 2025.11.0 Bug fix #155019
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