Home Assistant Integrations
Integrations are how Home Assistant connects to your devices. Every smart device in your home - thermostats, lights, security cameras, and now bitcoin miners - uses its own platform or protocol. Integrations bring them all together into one system.
What Are Integrations?
Your smart thermostat has its own app. Your lights have another. Your security system has a third. Each device lives in its own silo with its own interface.
Home Assistant integrations solve this by acting as connectors. Each integration:
- Discovers or connects to a specific device or service
- Creates entities (sensors, switches, controls) you can use in Home Assistant
- Keeps data in sync between the device and Home Assistant
Integrations handle the connection. Once your devices are connected, automations handle the smart logic (when to turn things on, what triggers what), and dashboards provide your control interface.
Official vs Custom Integrations
Official Integrations
Home Assistant includes over 2,000 official integrations out of the box. These are:
- Built into Home Assistant core
- Maintained by Home Assistant team or Meet Home Assistant team criterea for offical integrations
- Configured through Settings → Devices & Services
Common examples: Google Cast, Philips Hue, MQTT, Zigbee (ZHA), weather services.
Custom Integrations (HACS)
HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) extends Home Assistant with community-developed integrations not included in the core.
- Community-built - Developers create integrations for devices not officially supported
- Easy installation - HACS provides a store-like interface for discovery and updates
- Where Exergy integrations currently live - Our bitcoin miner integrations are available through HACS
To use custom integrations, you first install HACS, documented here, then browse and install the integrations you need.
Common Integrations
People add integrations for all their smart devices:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Climate | Nest, Ecobee, Honeywell thermostats |
| Lighting | Philips Hue, Lutron, LIFX |
| Security | Ring, Arlo, Wyze cameras |
| Media | Sonos, Roku, Apple TV |
| Energy | Sense, Emporia, utility meters |
| Protocols | Zigbee (ZHA), Z-Wave, Matter |
| Weather | OpenWeatherMap, Met.no, NWS |
Browse all official integrations at home-assistant.io/integrations.
Browse all custom HACS integrations on the HACS Github.
Exergy Integrations
We built integrations to bring bitcoin miners into the smart home ecosystem. Connect, control, and monitor your home mining hardware just like any other IoT device.
Miner Integrations
| Integration | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Canaan Avalon Home | Control & monitor Canaan Avalon miners (Mini 3, Q, Nano 3s) |
| Bitaxe | Monitor & control Bitaxe open-source miners |
| StealthMiner / LuxOS | Monitor & control miners with LuxOS firmware |
Pool & Infrastructure Integrations
| Integration | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Ocean Mining Pool | Monitor Ocean pool earnings and statistics |
| Public Pool | Monitor self-hosted Public Pool instances |
| DATUM Gateway | Monitor DATUM Gateway block template proxy |
See a full list of Exergy Integrations here:
Index of Exergy’s Home Assistant Integrations
GitHub
All Exergy integrations are open source:
Contributions welcome—bug reports, feature requests, and code contributions.