We are thrilled to announce our free, private, and secure remote MCP server for Home Assistant! Connecting your AI assistant, chatbot, or agent with Home Assistant takes your Home Assistant usage to the next level. Your AI understands the full layout of your home and devices, reads their live state and properties, and intelligently controls them. But it doesn’t stop there: your AI will also have access to your Home Assistant, enabling it to help you edit dashboards, create scripts and automations, debug issues, and more.
Homeway takes your security and privacy seriously. Our advanced MCP security tools give you fine-grained control over what your AI is and isn’t allowed to access in your Home Assistant setup. These permissions are enforced by the Homeway service, so there’s no way for the AI system to circumvent them.
We’re proud to offer our free remote MCP server for Home Assistant to the entire community, backed by our Privacy Commitment and secured by your Homeway account. It works with just about every AI model, chatbot, agent, assistant, or client out there!
Adding our MCP server to your Home Assistant only takes 20 seconds. Just add the Homeway app, and you’re done.
What can my AI do with a MCP Home Assistant server?
Your MCP server for Home Assistant can be as powerful as you want it to be. The MCP server exposes “tools” to your AI assistant, allowing it to read and write to your Home Assistant server. These tools give it access to a wide variety of functions in Home Assistant. And remember, with Homeway’s advanced fine-grained security controls, you can enable or disable access exactly as you want.
Our MCP server for Home Assistant allows your AI to:
- Get a full understanding of your home layout and devices, so it can easily handle complex queries like closing the blinds in our bedrooms or setting the basement lights to party mode.
- Read the live state of any device, including fine-grained details like light colors, brightness, temperatures, positions, and more.
- Fully understand and control any device in your Home Assistant setup, including setting light colors, opening and closing blinds or doors, setting your thermostat, arming your security system, locking your door, and more.
- Access to Home Assistant dashboards, scripts, automations, settings, integrations, and more. Supercharging your AI to help you build dashboards, write scripts and automations, debug Home Assistant issues, and more.
With Homeway’s fine-grain security controls, you have full control over what the AI model has access to. Since it’s enforced by the Homeway service, even if a model tries to use a blocked function, Homeway will block it.
Which AIs work with a Home Assistant MCP server?
MCP is a standard protocol supported by almost every AI chatbot, agent, assistant, and model. Since our Home Assistant MCP server is fully standards-compliant, it works with any AI. Our MCP server is also cloud-based (or a remote MCP server), which means your AI establishes a secure connection to our service, so the AI can access your Home Assistant server no matter where you are.
Any AI chatbot, agent, or assistant that supports MCP can use the Homeway remote server. This includes AIs like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, and even AIs hosted locally or using other services.
In Claude and ChatGPT, MCP servers are called Connectors.
We have set up guides for many AI platforms, including Calude Connectors, ChatGPT apps, Gemini apps, Copilot, and more
What is MCP?
MCP (model context protocol) was developed by Anthropic and is not the industry standard for connecting AI agents and assistants with external services. Just think of it as ways of expanding your AI LLM chatbot with more information that’s specific to you, like what’s on your calendar, what lights are on in your home, etc. With more information about you, your AI chatbot LLM can engage in more advanced reasoning and better understand you, and help.
What’s Remote MCP?
The MCP standard was designed to be dynamic, but at first, most MCP servers ran locally on the same device. This worked well until models became more cloud-based, because users on phones and other devices couldn’t use the MCP servers while on the move.
Remote MCP servers are accessible from the public internet, so AIs like Claude can access them directly from their servers, making them available at any time, anywhere. Remote MCP servers are sometimes called “Cloud MCP servers”.
Learn More
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