# Homey Self-Hosted Server on Home Assistant OS | Megathread **URL:** \ **Category:** Homey Self-Hosted Server\ **Tags:** home-assistant\ **Created:** [December 17, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119 "2025-12-17T16:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doekse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/doekse/32/109415_2.png) [@Doekse](https://community.homey.app/u/Doekse)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/1 "2025-12-17T16:11:47Z")
In this thread we can discuss running Homey Self-Hosted Server on Home Assistant OS via Add-ons. #### Installation You can find all info on the GitHub repo I’ve created [here](https://github.com/Doekse/addon-homeyshs) #### Known Limitations None at this moment. ---
**Author:** ![Undertaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/undertaker/32/53278_2.png) [@Undertaker](https://community.homey.app/u/Undertaker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/2 "2025-12-17T17:30:33Z")
Running smoothly so far. ![Screenshot_20251217-182752_Chrome](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/a/bac9df8f4b927ecc68ae1798d47977dc7090d23b.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20251217-182946_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/4/b464d89df9743506ab7cd2ebb73254e3e363faa1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![HenriDO](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/henrido/32/84845_2.png) [@HenriDO](https://community.homey.app/u/HenriDO)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/3 "2025-12-17T17:57:27Z")
Work smoothly on my Mac 😉 no docker to install … ![Capture d’écran 2025-12-17 à 18.44.22](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/2/12cd01fd4ded9fa4ec5dce7ae2e3ea65858f786f.png) Memory is limited to 4MB?… but the storage is not 🤟 ![Capture d’écran 2025-12-17 à 18.45.37](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/3/133f702cfe580190d3294c23ecca6e4f6f034cf2.png) Resources efficient: ![Capture d’écran 2025-12-17 à 18.50.59](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/7/37604b93adee88fde0753060bc7e38b55e2d18e4.png) If you deploy Homeylink to your (main) device, you gain access to all devices on others’ « Homey » devices, which is very nice for Z-Wave, 433 or Zigbee devices. Matter can be added on severals platforms. ![Capture d’écran 2025-12-17 à 18.52.44](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/3/d34f2b144716de6f7eab3ae5c115526915fd6f99.png) > **[HomeyLink | Homey](https://homey.app/en-fr/app/com.athom.link/HomeyLink/)** > > Link multiple Homey Pros for unified device control. Nice work to the team ! ---
**Author:** ![Gjaevert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gjaevert/32/50645_2.png) [@Gjaevert](https://community.homey.app/u/Gjaevert)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/4 "2025-12-17T18:41:32Z")
Does this «just» create the server and UI for Homey, and still require a Bridge for devices? Or does it allow Homey to access already existing devices in HA? ---
**Author:** ![Doekse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/doekse/32/109415_2.png) [@Doekse](https://community.homey.app/u/Doekse)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/5 "2025-12-17T18:45:25Z")
This basically just runs Homey Self-Hosted Server inside of Home Assistant OS. You can connect a Bridge to connect Zigbee/Z-Wave/Bluetooth/433mHz devices to the Self-Hosted Server instance or you can install one of the Home Assistant apps within Homey to get your devices from there 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gjaevert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gjaevert/32/50645_2.png) [@Gjaevert](https://community.homey.app/u/Gjaevert)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/6 "2025-12-17T18:48:04Z")
Aha, did not know about the last option but now I know what I am doing tonight. I love my HA, but this is a great release. Really looking forward to explore Homey more. Kudos! 🚀 ---
**Author:** ![James\_Butler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/james_butler/32/93836_2.png) [@James\_Butler](https://community.homey.app/u/James_Butler)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/7 "2025-12-18T06:39:23Z")
my experience with the Home Assistent apps within Homey is a bit of hit and miss.. some things work better, others not at all once you start using more exotic devices.. since my HA is running zigbee2MQTT i think an MQTT client would be more usefull? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 7:25am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/8 "2025-12-18T07:25:47Z")
Not sure what you’ve been trying, but the [Home Assistant community app](https://community.homey.app/t/71477) by Ronny, is rock solid since it’s first release. And versatile: you can even add multiple entities of different devices to a custom device @ Homey, completely independent. Modifiyng an existing HA device on Homey is possible as well (add/remove/change entities/capabilities) ---
**Author:** ![James\_Butler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/james_butler/32/93836_2.png) [@James\_Butler](https://community.homey.app/u/James_Butler)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/9 "2025-12-23T10:37:53Z")
> [@Peter\_Kawa](#): > > And versatile: you can even add multiple entities of different devices to a custom device @ Homey, completely independent. I had no idea what you’re talking about as I always ended up with every single sensor being available as just 1 sensor and not combined into the 1 device they belonged to. That is, until i decided to read some manuals 😁 This thing is a freaking beast. Thanks for pointing that out! ---
**Author:** ![Doekse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/doekse/32/109415_2.png) [@Doekse](https://community.homey.app/u/Doekse)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/10 "2025-12-23T10:51:21Z")
I’ve had some reports of people saying that a reboot of the add-on doesn’t persists their data and makes them needing to set up the whole thing again. If there are more people dealing with this issue feel free to let me know. Looking into it at the moment! ---
**Author:** ![Seinuh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/seinuh/32/16357_2.png) [@Seinuh](https://community.homey.app/u/Seinuh)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/11 "2025-12-23T20:04:21Z")
Yes, i can confirm this issue ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Goudriaan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan_goudriaan/32/11672_2.png) [@Jan\_Goudriaan](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Goudriaan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/12 "2025-12-23T20:19:00Z")
Yes same here ---
**Author:** ![James\_Butler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/james_butler/32/93836_2.png) [@James\_Butler](https://community.homey.app/u/James_Butler)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/13 "2025-12-24T12:01:07Z")
Yes.. it thinks its completely new ![Schermafbeelding 2025-12-24 125843](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/7/373775bb0d21a5c5bdaf9cbe40a076341a9c157d.png) ---
**Author:** ![James\_Butler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/james_butler/32/93836_2.png) [@James\_Butler](https://community.homey.app/u/James_Butler)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/14 "2025-12-24T16:47:32Z")
To make it a bit more clear… Restarting Homey from within Homey works as expected Its when you restart the Addon from within Home Assitant that you lose everything ---
**Author:** ![Doekse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/doekse/32/109415_2.png) [@Doekse](https://community.homey.app/u/Doekse)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/15 "2025-12-24T16:58:46Z")
I tried some fixes but nothing seems to work reliably. Send a message to the HA team for some additional information, keep y’all posted! ---
**Author:** ![Doekse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/doekse/32/109415_2.png) [@Doekse](https://community.homey.app/u/Doekse)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/16 "2025-12-25T12:20:29Z")
I’ve just pushed [release v0.0.5](https://github.com/Doekse/addon-homeyshs/releases/tag/v0.0.5) of the add-on, which should fix the issue with persistent storage not working. Enjoy the holidays and happy testing! ---
**Author:** ![Seinuh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/seinuh/32/16357_2.png) [@Seinuh](https://community.homey.app/u/Seinuh)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/17 "2025-12-25T12:51:18Z")
Looks good, after reboot HA still on 🔥 thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![James\_Butler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/james_butler/32/93836_2.png) [@James\_Butler](https://community.homey.app/u/James_Butler)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/18 "2025-12-25T15:07:07Z")
too bad that with the update it will lose everything anyway. it’s only saving AFTER the update is done. which is to be expected but want to put it out there anyway for the few hopefull ones ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/19 "2025-12-31T16:09:41Z")
Hi Abe, Because i didn’t pay enough attention while restarting the SHS add-on, which got me v0.0.5: will firmware updates be available by restarting the add-on per H.A. GUI? (I guess not); Or does it use the generic H.A. add-on update system? ---
**Author:** ![Doekse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/doekse/32/109415_2.png) [@Doekse](https://community.homey.app/u/Doekse)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119/20 "2025-12-31T16:22:38Z")
Each time the add-on restarts it automatically downloads updates if they are available. I will have to have a look at how (it can) integrate with the HA update system. I know that for example unRAID simply notifies the user when it sees an updated image available and prompts to restart and update. [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-home-assistant-os-megathread/147119.md?page=2)