Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
homeassistant_sky_connect
The Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 integration provides hardware information for the hardware configuration page.
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 |
|---|---|---|
switch | Switch or outlet |
What people report
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (SkyConnect) is supported; recent evidence is about USB serial proxy and translation noise.
- Works1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 | Works | ESPHome USB serial proxy support added in 2026.10Saved copyProposed change ESPHome serial proxies have existed for a few releases now. ESPHome now supports USB serial proxies. This is a fundamentally different problem than normal serial proxying as USB serial proxies have their own portable ident Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #183645 · 2026-09 |
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
Connection not stated
The integration doesn’t declare how it connects.
Found automatically over
- USB
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 35,594 (5.02%) |
|---|---|
| Added in | Home Assistant 2022.9 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @home-assistant/core |
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.
Sources
- Documentation: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homeassistant_sky_connect/
- Source code: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/tree/dev/homeassistant/components/homeassistant_sky_connect
- Issues: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22integration%3A+homeassistant_sky_connect%22