mcp-server-home-assistant

A Model Context Protocol Server for Home Assistant. See Model Context Protocol for context.

The custom component required by this integration is moving to Home Assistant Core in https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/134122

Usage in Claude Desktop

1. Install the home-assistant-model-context-protocol custom component in your Home Assistant instance
2. Create a Long Lived Access Token
3. Clone this git repo to a path like /Users/allen/Development/mcp-server-home-assistant

4. Edit your claude_desktop_config.json with something like this and include your home assistant url and api token:

   json { "mcpServers": { "Home-assistant": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/Users/allen/Development/mcp-server-home-assistant", "run", "mcp-server-home-assistant", "-v", "-v" ], "env": { "HOME_ASSISTANT_WEB_SOCKET_URL": "http://localhost:8123/api/websocket", "HOME_ASSISTANT_API_TOKEN": "byJhbVci0iJIUzI1ii1sInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9..... } } } } 1. You can view the logs e.g. ~Library/Logs/Claude/mcp-server-Home-assistant.log to understand what is happening