mcp-server-home-assistant

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 home-assistant/core#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:

{
    "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....."
            }
        }
    }
}

5. You can view the logs e.g. ~Library/Logs/Claude/mcp-server-Home-assistant.log to understand what is happening