Brother Printer
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The Brother Printer integration allows you to read current data from your local Brother printer.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
binary_sensor | Sensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…) |
What people report
Brother network printers are read locally over SNMP; very old models use a different format and are unsupported.
- Works1
- Not working1
- Won’t be supported1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brother printer | Works | Click and play setupSaved copy… Difficulty level (0 easiest - 10 hardest) and comment: 1. Shelly - 0, click and play, perfect 2. Airthings - 3, had to create and API key not to bad 3. Brother printer - 0 - click and play, awesome 4. Tapo - 1, I think I needed a password and click on each device individually (I have tons of tapo devices), easy 5. Google mini speakers - 0, click and play 6. Hisense TV - 0, click and play 7. JBL Speaker bar - 0, click and play 8. Google TV Streamer - 1, need to walk to TV to get pairing code 9. Pixel phone companion app - 4 or 5, I don't know why this was such a pain to get the cloud access … Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23. | Reddit thread · 2025-08 | |
| Brother MFC-8660DN | Not working Local | Printer restarts and won't print with SNMP enabled; couldn't be addedSaved copyThe problem This started ever since brother integration was introduced.( I do not remember what version) ### Before 2021.7.0 With Brother integration disabled. - Brother MFC-8660dn restarts every time I restart HA. With Brother integration enabled. - Brother MFC-8660dn to HA it will periodically restart. - The printer will also not print. - Every time I try to print the printer will keep rebooting. ### With 2021.7.0 and newer - Even if I don't have the integration added and/or have it disabled it will continue to restart periodically as long as home assistant is running. However with the … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #52834 · 2021-07 | |
| Brother printers (very old models) | Won’t be supported Local | Some very old Brother printers use a different data formatSaved copyLimitations: Some very old Brother printers use a different data format and are not supported. The integration shows a message about this during setup. Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23. | Docs |
Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.
How it connects
Local polling
Talks to the device on your network, asking it for updates every so often.
Found automatically over
- Bonjour (zeroconf)
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 48,719 (6.88%) |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Platinum |
| Added in | Home Assistant 0.104 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @bieniu |
Limitations from the docs
- Some very old Brother printers use a different data format and are not supported. The integration shows a message about this during setup.
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
