STEP 1
Select Home Assistant in workflow
Pick Home Assistant app in the workflow builder [4] - just one click to select the app.
Home Assistant Integration
Control and monitor a Home Assistant instance — read entity states, call services, fire events, and fetch history. Connect Home Assistant to AI agents and automate workflow workflows across your stack. Start with a action from Get API Status, then let actions like Get Calendar Events keep the workflow moving.
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Supported triggers and actions for Home Assistant integration
Triggers can detect changes in Home Assistant and run actions that can create, search or modify data inside Home Assistant automatically [3] — exactly how you set them.
- Get API StatusReturns a message confirming the API is running.
- Get Calendar EventsRetrieves the events on a calendar between two times.
- Get Camera ImageReturns a still image from a camera entity.
- Get ConfigurationReturns the current Home Assistant configuration.
- Get Entity StateReturns the current state of a single entity.
- Get Error LogReturns the errors logged during the current Home Assistant session.
- Get Logbook EntriesReturns the logbook entries recorded over a period.
- Get State HistoryReturns the recorded state changes for one or more entities over a period.
- List CalendarsRetrieves a list of the calendar entities.
- List ComponentsRetrieves a list of currently loaded components.
- List Event TypesRetrieves a list of event types and their listener counts.
- List ServicesRetrieves a list of the services available in each domain.
- List StatesRetrieves the current state of every entity.
- Call ServiceCalls a Home Assistant service to operate a device or integration.
- Delete EntityDeletes an entity's stored state from Home Assistant.
- Fire EventFires an event onto the Home Assistant event bus.
- Handle IntentDispatches a voice-assistant intent to Home Assistant.
- Make an API CallPerforms an arbitrary authorized API call.
- Render TemplateRenders a Home Assistant template and returns the result.
- Set Entity StateSets the stored state of an entity in Home Assistant.
How to integrate Home Assistant in automation workflow?
3 simple steps to make your Home Assistant connected with other apps in automation workflows on WEXTL. Up to 10 minutes integration set up.
STEP 2
Connect Home Assistant
When prompted, authorize access to Home Assistant in WEXTL once. Home Assistant credentials are encrypted and never shared with WEXTL. Authorization will be reused in any future API calls [3].
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STEP 3
Build a workflow
Build your workflow with Home Assistant yourself or with WEXTL® AI Builder. Connect Home Assistant to any available integrations [5], or use HTTP node to go beyond them.
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How Home Assistant connects and integrates with WEXTL
Save and approve your credentials once — WEXTL® stores authorization information encrypted and reuses the authentication whenever Home Assistant app is called in workflows. That allows your other automations to run without your attention, per defined schedule [7]. Explore documentation [6] for a detailed list of fields that Home Assistant supports.
The following table illustrates what fields Home Assistant integration require during authorization flow inside our workflow builder [4].
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Demonstration of Home Assistant connection step inside WEXTL Workflow Builder [4].
| Field | Type | Help |
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Base URLRequired | url | The root URL of your instance, for example https://homeassistant.local:8123. Include any path prefix. Trailing slashes are fine. |
Long-Lived Access TokenRequired | password | A long-lived access token from your profile. Treat it like a password. |
Connect Home Assistant to popular apps on WEXTL
Enter a name of the other app you want to sync with Home Assistant below. Click on selected app to explore integration options with Home Assistant. If the app you search for is not available in WEXTL yet, you can use HTTP node [10] instead to integrate it directly.
Example automation with Home Assistant integration
Select Get API Status action from Home Assistant - this will be a starting point in your automation. Whenever event happens in Home Assistant, workflow will start [7] from Get API Status node.
Search for Make an API Call, connect it as the next step of integration sequence. You can use filters between Get API Status and Make an API Call, so only important data pass from Get API Status to the next step. WEXTL gives you full control over the process of Home Assistant automation. All parts of workflow are visible on the canvas [4].
Home Assistant on WEXTL has 21 modules for building other automations. Explore Home Assistant documentation for more.
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Get API Status
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Demonstration of how visual Home Assistant automation [6] looks in WEXTL.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about automating Home Assistant in your workflows.
Home Assistant has no triggers, but it provides 21 actions including "Get API Status", "Get Calendar Events", and "Get Camera Image". Pair them with triggers from other apps to automate Home Assistant tasks.
Integration has 21 actions, including "Get API Status", "Get Calendar Events", and "Get Camera Image", and more. Refer to our Home Assistant Documentation for detailed inputs and outputs.
No. Most automations are built visually on the canvas by picking triggers, actions, and mapping fields. You can add custom JavaScript with Functions when advanced logic is needed — but our customers do that in rare cases [4].
Yes. Connections are authenticated per account, credentials are encrypted at rest, and you can enforce approvals and team-level access controls on any automation.
The Home Assistant integration on WEXTL runs directly on its vendor public API — every field name, authentication method, and rate limit is controlled by Home Assistant official API and covered in documentation [3]. WEXTL handles the request signing and pagination for you.
Absolutely. Where Home Assistant provides native webhooks, you can use instant triggers to eliminate polling delay. For custom webhooks, WEXTL offers Custom Webhook node, so you can start automation whenever Home Assistant or any other service sends event to webhook URL.
WEXTL is an AI-first visual canvas. The platform allows you to describe automation in plain text — and AI will wire nodes for Home Assistant inside the workflow builder [4]. You can also use built-in workflow nodes (AI Agent, Human in the Loop, Condition, Aggregate Results) in pair with Home Assistant modules to craft complex integration flows with branches, filtering, and conditional logic. There are absolutely no limits of what you can build.
References
List of sources used to gather information about the Home Assistant integration.
- Home Assistant integration source code, module specs and credentials implementation.
- Internal Home Assistant integration documentation, structured input and output parameters, scopes, and authentication methods.
- Official Home Assistant vendor API documentation — used to verify field meanings, authentication flows, and anything our own specs don't fully capture.
- WEXTL® Visual Workflow Builder, anonymized data from our technical support team.
- WEXTL® Apps Library
- WEXTL® Home Assistant App Documentation
- WEXTL® Workflow Scheduler
- WEXTL® HTTP node documentation