News & social media
Mastodon
mastodon
Built inCloud pollingGold
The Mastodon integration uses Mastodon to post status updates, get account statistics, and mute accounts.
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…) |
How it connects
Cloud polling
Goes through the maker’s cloud, asking it for updates every so often. Needs the internet and an account.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 141 (0.02%) |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Gold |
| Added in | Home Assistant 0.67 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @fabaff, @andrew-codechimp |
Limitations from the docs
- The integration does not provide functionality to get the stream, favorite, bookmark, or boost posts of that account. Mastodon account details only show the date of the last status you posted, not the time. If you use the mastodon.getaccount action to monitor new posts, you should instead watch the statusescount field …
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.