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Home Assistant

Drive and read your Home Assistant from N.I.N.A.

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Overview

The Home Assistant plugin connects your smart home to N.I.N.A. in two ways: it exposes Home Assistant entities as channels of a N.I.N.A. Switch device, and it adds advanced-sequencer instructions to drive and read Home Assistant from a sequence. Once configured, the switch hub behaves like any native switch: it can be driven by N.I.N.A.'s built-in functions (the “Set Switch Value” instruction, conditions) and by other plugins, without them needing to know Home Assistant is behind it.

Features

HA entities as a Switch device

Map any Home Assistant entity to a switch channel: binary (on/off), stepped (discrete options) or analog (numeric, min/max/step), read-only, write-only or read/write.

Live updates

Connects through the Home Assistant WebSocket API, with REST polling as a fallback. The channel name shows the unit of measurement (e.g. “Terrace temp (°C)”).

Sequencer instructions

A “Home Assistant” category: Call HA Service, Wait for HA State, an HA State loop condition, and a “Publish to HA” trigger every N exposures.

N.I.N.A. patterns in services

Data sent to HA services accepts N.I.N.A. patterns: $$TARGETNAME$$, $$FILTER$$, $$CAMERA$$, $$TEMPERATURE$$, $$SQM$$, $$DATETIME$$, and more.

Autocompleting pickers

Entity and service fields everywhere use searchable, autocompleting pickers to find the right target fast.

N.I.N.A. status to a dashboard

Push N.I.N.A. status (target, filter, frame count, sensor temperature…) to an HA entity, e.g. to show it on a dashboard.

Screenshots

Home Assistant plugin options page in N.I.N.A. (connection and channels)
Switch device: Home Assistant entities exposed as channels
Home Assistant instructions in N.I.N.A.'s advanced sequencer

Install

  1. 01

    Open the plugin manager

    In N.I.N.A., go to Options → Plugins, “Available” tab.

  2. 02

    Install Home Assistant

    Find “Home Assistant” (CaeloWorks) in the list, click Install, then restart N.I.N.A.

  3. 03

    Connect Home Assistant

    In Options → Plugins → Home Assistant, enter the base URL (e.g. http://homeassistant.local:8123) and a long-lived token, then “Test connection”.

  4. 04

    Add channels and connect

    Map your entities to channels, then under Equipment → Switch pick “Home Assistant” and connect. The sequencer instructions reuse the same connection.

Available straight from N.I.N.A.'s plugin manager (“Available” tab). The DLL can also be downloaded from the GitHub releases.

Changelog

  • 1.2.2 2026-06-22

    First public release, available in N.I.N.A.'s plugin manager.