Home Assistant highlights 1,000+ integrations

Home Assistant’s website says the open-source platform now works with more than 3,500 integrations, a figure that is substantially higher than the “1,000+” claim highlighted in social posts circulating this week. The project’s homepage on May 23 described Home Assistant as “open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first” and said it works with more than 1,000 brands and thousands of devices and services. Social posts on X and Reddit helped push that message wider, focusing on local control for lights, thermostats, cameras, doorbells and voice assistants. The platform is run by the Open Home Foundation, according to Home Assistant’s website. Its integrations directory says Home Assistant supports thousands of brands across more than 100 categories, including Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter and Thread. The company’s marketing language and documentation both center on running automations on local hardware rather than depending entirely on vendor clouds. ### So was the “1,000+ integrations” claim wrong? Home Assistant’s own homepage on May 23 said “Browse 3500+ integrations,” while another section on the same page said it “works with over 1000 brands.” Those are different counts. The lower number appears to refer to brands or device families, while the higher number refers to integrations listed on the platform. The integrations directory uses broader wording. Home Assistant says users can browse “devices and services that work with Home Assistant,” and that the platform supports thousands of brands across more than a hundred categories. That means the social framing captured the scale of the ecosystem, but understated the current integration count on Home Assistant’s own site. ### What does Home Assistant say it can control locally? Home Assistant’s homepage says it supports local control and privacy-first automation on users’ own hardware. The examples on the site include smart lighting, climate controls, dashboards, energy management and voice control through its Assist product. The integrations page lists featured connections for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Google Cast, HomeKit Bridge, KNX, Lutron Caséta, Matter, MQTT, Philips Hue, Shelly, Sonos, Z-Wave and Zigbee Home Automation. That list does not mean every device works fully offline, but it shows the range of categories social posts were pointing to when they highlighted lights, thermostats, cameras, doorbells and voice tools. ### Where do the automation examples and guides come from? Home Assistant’s documentation says automations can be built in a visual editor and that “no coding is required” for many setups. Its blueprint documentation says blueprints are ready-made automations shared by the community that users can install by filling in a few fields rather than writing YAML from scratch. The Home Assistant Community forum has active sections for project showcases, custom integrations and guides. The forum’s project index says it is a place to “show off the cool projects, automations and configurations” users have made with Home Assistant. ### Were people really sharing unusual builds like robots and wall-light setups? A Home Assistant Community post published in 2025 showed a proof-of-concept robot called “HomieBot” integrated through ESPHome, with movement controlled from Home Assistant. Another community project published in April 2026 detailed how to integrate a home light system using step-by-step relays without replacing an existing electrical cabinet. Those examples match the kind of user-generated projects cited in social threads: not just mainstream smart-home controls, but custom builds that extend Home Assistant into hobby robotics, retrofitted lighting and other DIY use cases. ### Where would a new user actually start? Home Assistant’s documentation page says the platform covers “everything from your first install to advanced setups,” and its integrations directory is the main index for checking device support. The automation and blueprint documentation pages are the next step for users who want prebuilt routines, while the community forum remains the main place where project walkthroughs, custom integrations and new guides are posted.