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Install home-assistant with Homebrew Cask
Companion app for Home Assistant home automation software. Version 2026.10.3,2026.3322 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Companion app for Home Assistant home automation software
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Project history and usage
Home Assistant for macOS is the official Apple-platform companion client for viewing and controlling Home Assistant servers and exposing Mac state as automation sensors.
Project history
Home Assistant's Apple companion application is developed publicly by the Home Assistant project. The macOS application shares the official `home-assistant/iOS` repository with the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and related Apple-platform clients.
Adoption history
The Apple companion app grew from an iOS client into a shared iOS and macOS codebase. Official documentation now treats macOS as a supported platform across features such as app events, sharing, theming, URL handling, notifications, sensors, and server control.
How it is used
Users connect the app to one or more Home Assistant servers to access dashboards, control entities, receive actionable notifications, and send device sensor state. On macOS it also offers desktop-specific facilities such as a customizable toolbar and sensors reporting active, network, battery, storage, and display state.
Why package nerds care
The cask packages a native desktop endpoint for the larger open-source Home Assistant ecosystem. It is useful to package-manager users who want desktop installation and upgrades without relying solely on the Mac App Store, while retaining integration with a self-hosted Home Assistant server.
Timeline
- 2017: The official Apple companion-app repository began publishing releases.
- 2020: The project announced a native macOS companion application through its Apple-platform development effort.
- 2026: The application remains actively released from the shared official Apple-client repository.
Related projects
- Home Assistant Core provides the automation server to which the companion app connects.
- The same official repository produces the Home Assistant clients for Apple's other platforms.
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No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for home-assistant. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
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- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-11-04
manager version2026.10.3,2026.3322
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/home-assistant/iOSnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:home-assistant |
|---|---|
| Version | 2026.10.3,2026.3322 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/home-assistant |
| Homepage | https://companion.home-assistant.io/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS |
| Upstream docs | https://companion.home-assistant.io/ |
| Source archive | https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/releases/download/release%2F2026.10.3%2F2026.3322/home-assistant-mac.zip |
| SHA-256 | ad8f3de1686dc064d6fd89a88f168320768e722f1d97733457738e5a81db679a |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
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| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | home-assistant |
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| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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