Home Assistant
Home Assistant is a companion app for connecting your Mac to a Home Assistant server so you can control devices, view dashboards, and receive notifications.
What is Home Assistant?
Home Assistant is a smart home companion app for macOS that connects your Mac to a Home Assistant server. It lets users open and interact with their Home Assistant dashboards from a desktop app, control connected devices, and receive notifications from their home automation setup. The app also integrates the Mac with Home Assistant by exposing selected device information and app events that can be used in automations. Common uses include checking home status from a Mac, triggering scenes or scripts, responding to alerts, and using desktop presence or device data as part of automations. It is best suited for people who already use Home Assistant and want a native Apple-platform companion alongside the web interface.
Key features
- Connect to a Home Assistant server and open its dashboards in a desktop app
- Control smart home devices, scenes, scripts, and other entities from your Mac
- Receive Home Assistant notifications on Apple platforms
- Share app and device events with Home Assistant for automations
- Use URL handling and universal links to open directly into Home Assistant content
- Support Apple-platform integrations such as Shortcuts-based actions in the companion ecosystem
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
This app is part of the Home Assistant companion ecosystem and its network access, notifications, and optional device-data sharing are consistent with its smart home purpose. Depending on how you use it, it may handle local network discovery, remote server access, notifications, and selected Mac-related data used for automations. Review the servers connected in the app and the permissions you grant, especially if you use location, notifications, microphone, or camera related automations in your Home Assistant setup.
Recommendation: Keep Home Assistant if you actively use Home Assistant on your Mac or rely on desktop notifications and automation integrations. If you no longer use Home Assistant, you can remove the app; doing so will stop Mac-based notifications, app events, and any automations that depend on this device.
Common paths
/Applications/Home Assistant.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/io.robbie.HomeAssistant~/Library/Containers/io.robbie.HomeAssistant/Data/Library/Caches
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/io.robbie.HomeAssistant~/Library/Containers/io.robbie.HomeAssistant/Data/Library/Application Support
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/io.robbie.HomeAssistant.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/io.robbie.HomeAssistant
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