A Model Context Protocol Server for Home Assistant. See Model Context Protocol for context.
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Install the home-assistant-model-context-protocol custom component in your Home Assistant instance
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Create a Long Lived Access Token
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Clone this git repo to a path like
/Users/allen/Development/mcp-server-home-assistant
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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..... } } } }
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You can view the logs e.g.
~Library/Logs/Claude/mcp-server-Home-assistant.log
to understand what is happening