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ha-mcp MCP Server

Comprehensive Model Context Protocol server for managing Home Assistant through AI assistants.

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Published as ghcr.io/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp:8.4.3 on oci. Runs locally.

Published as ha-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Reviewed GitHub reports

8 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 5.

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[BUG] Writes fail with ClientDisconnect while reading request body (addon + mcp-proxy, no TLS)

đź’¬ What Happened?

When creating or editing dashboards, automations, helpers etc., writes intermittently time out (4 minute client timeout). Sometimes after 4 writes, sometimes on the very first one. Reads always return instantly. Sometimes the writes go through anyway despite the timeout. Restarting the client or the addon helps temporarily. I tested a different network connection and downgraded the addon — same picture.

Digging into the addon log we found the server logging…

Read the thread · 2026-09-04 · open · external user · 38 comments

Known issue: Claude Desktop and other mcp-proxy clients fail to connect after the MCP SDK 2.0.0 release — add --with "mcp<2.0.0" to your config

If your working setup broke on or after 28 July 2026 and your client config runs mcp-proxy, this may be the cause. Please try this fix first before filing a new issue.

Fix

Recommended: switch to fastmcp-remote. As of #2101, the Setup Wizard generates this instead of a pinned mcp-proxy config. fastmcp-remote is the FastMCP project's own stdio bridge and pins its SDK dependency to a bounded range (mcp<2.0,>=1.24.0 as…

Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · open · 4 comments

[BUG] ha_config_set_automation reusing a single fixed placeholder slot

đź’¬ What Happened?

While using the MCP to edit some automations, I also created a new one. When I click on that automation (for manual editing, it opens /config/automation/edit/new. Also when trying to read traces, it doesnt load any and the url says /config/automation/trace/new. The automation has a full description, and even works / fires.

When trying to create another automation it keeps overwriting this one, even flagged by Claude that he notices the old one is overwritten.…

Read the thread · 2026-09-08 · closed · external user · 3 comments

[FEATURE] Emit SSE shutdown advisory (event: shutdown + retry:) on SIGTERM before closing stream

đź’¬ What's the Feature?

Emit a final SSE frame advising clients of a planned shutdown before closing the stream on SIGTERM (or any orderly stop). Something like:

event: shutdown
data: {"reason":"planned_restart","eta_seconds":90,"source":"sigterm"}
retry: 90000

then drain in-flight requests and close cleanly.

🎯 Why it matters

Today an SSE client cannot distinguish three very different shutdown modes:

  1. Planned homeassistant.restart (come back in ~60-120 s).
  2. Add-on…

Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · closed · external user · 3 comments

[BUG] Identical concurrent calls share one approval with remember_minutes=0

What happened

While checking the meaning of “require approval every time”, we reproduced two identical concurrent static tool calls executing after one approval with remember_minutes=0.

This was reproduced offline, using the real FastMCP server, PolicyMiddleware and approval queue, with a fake terminal action that only appends to a Python list. No Home Assistant connection, household device operation or live Settings UI approval was used. This report was prepared by Hermes at the…

Read the thread · 2026-09-07 · closed · external user · 3 comments

See all 8 reports Pod holds for ha-mcp.

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