node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

Various nodes to assist in setting up automation using Node-RED communicating with Home Assistant.

Getting Started

Documentation can be found here.

Prerequisites

Have Node-RED installed and working, if you need to install Node-RED see here.

• Node.js v18.2.0+
• Node-RED v3.1.1+
• Home Assistant v2024.3+

Installation

Install via Node-RED Manage Palette

node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

Install via npm

$ cd ~/.node-red
$ npm install node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket
# then restart node-red

For Home Assistant add-on users:

The Community add-on ships with this node right out of the box.

Under the server node config just check the checkbox for I use the Home Assistant Add-on

The add-on can be found here: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-node-red#readme

Contribute

• Setting up Development Environment
• Help with Documentation

Contributors

List of all contributors

Changelog

0.76.0 (2025-06-06)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Updated the minimum required Home Assistant version to 2024.3.0 in the README to ensure compatibility with the label and floor registries introduced in this version. This update should have been made with the release of version 0.66.0.

Features

• sensor: add 'ms' and 'µs' to duration units (0dbb5f9)

Documentation

• update Home Assistant version requirement to v2024.3 (9b8ac19), closes #1707