What can you do with the Home Assistant integration?

LiveContext exposes 16 operations on Home Assistant, covering state, config, event and service. Common uses include validating a new Home Assistant credential, turning a light or switch on from a workflow and cleaning up a virtual sensor a workflow created earlier.

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Home Assistant integration

Home Assistant REST API for a self-hosted instance: read the state of every entity, call services to actually control lights, switches and other devices, fire and list events, read recorded state history and logbook entries, list calendars and their events, download a camera still, validate the configuration and read the instance configuration. Point the credential at your own Home Assistant host and authenticate with a long-lived access token created from your user profile.

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Common Home Assistant use cases

validating a new Home Assistant credential
turning a light or switch on from a workflow
cleaning up a virtual sensor a workflow created earlier
validating the configuration before triggering a restart
charting how a temperature sensor moved over the last day
checking that an event type has a listener before firing it
explaining in plain language why a light turned on last night
attaching a camera snapshot to an alert when motion is detected
discovering the exact service name and fields before calling it
finding the calendar entity identifier before reading its events

What you can do with Home Assistant

Each of these is one operation on one endpoint, available both as a workflow step and as a tool an AI agent can call on its own. Nothing bundles several operations into one action, so what a run did stays readable afterwards.

Most endpoints run on the free plan. A few, mainly the ones that publish on your behalf, need a paid plan.

State, 4 operations

DELETEdelete_state
Removes an entity from the Home Assistant state machine.
GETget_state
Returns the current state and attributes of one Home Assistant entity.
GETlist_states
Returns the current state and attributes of every Home Assistant entity.
POSTset_state
Writes a state value into the Home Assistant state machine for an entity.

Config, 2 operations

POSTcheck_config
Validates the Home Assistant configuration and reports any errors.
GETget_config
Returns the Home Assistant version, location, unit system and loaded components.

Event, 2 operations

POSTfire_event
Fires a custom event on the Home Assistant event bus.
GETlist_events
Returns the Home Assistant event types and their listener counts.

Service, 2 operations

POSTcall_service
Calls a Home Assistant service to control devices or run integrations.
GETlist_services
Returns every callable Home Assistant service grouped by domain.

Calendar, 1 operation

GETlist_calendars
Returns the Home Assistant calendar entities.

Calendar event, 1 operation

GETget_calendar_events
Returns the events of a Home Assistant calendar within a time window.

Camera image, 1 operation

GETget_camera_snapshot
Downloads the current still image from a Home Assistant camera as a file.

History, 1 operation

GETget_history
Returns recorded Home Assistant state changes over a time period.

Logbook entry, 1 operation

GETget_logbook
Returns Home Assistant logbook entries for a time period.

Status, 1 operation

GETget_api_status
Confirms the Home Assistant API is reachable and the token is accepted.

Use Home Assistant from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

Connect Home Assistant in LiveContext, create an API key in Settings, then add the LiveContext MCP server to your client. Its Home Assistant operations become tools the client can call, next to every other integration you connected.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http livecontext https://livecontext.ai/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.livecontext]
url = "https://livecontext.ai/mcp"

[mcp_servers.livecontext.http_headers]
"X-API-Key" = "YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor, Claude Desktop and other JSON configs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "livecontext": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livecontext.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Set up the MCP server step by step

How to connect Home Assistant

Create your workspace
Sign up free. Nothing to install.
Connect Home Assistant once
Add your Home Assistant connection in Settings. Every tool from this integration reuses it, and secrets are encrypted at rest and visible only to you.
Describe the job in chat
The workflow builds itself in front of you and picks the endpoints it needs. Drag the steps yourself on the canvas whenever you would rather be explicit.

Home Assistant integration FAQ

What can you do with the Home Assistant integration?: LiveContext exposes 16 operations on Home Assistant, covering state, config, event and service. Common uses include validating a new Home Assistant credential, turning a light or switch on from a workflow and cleaning up a virtual sensor a workflow created earlier.