homeassistant-assist

Home Assistant natural language control works by passing your conversational input directly to the Assist API, which processes the text to operate lights, switches, thermostats, and any other integrated entities without requiring manual API calls.

Yes, you can query the status of Home Assistant entities via the Assist API by asking conversational questions, which supports area-aware status requests to retrieve current device states using natural language instead of manual lookups.

To connect to the Home Assistant Assist API you need to set the HASS_SERVER and HASS_TOKEN environment variables, which authenticate requests sent to the /api/conversation/process endpoint for executing device control commands.

The Assist API works with any Home Assistant integrated device, allowing natural language control and status queries across lights, switches, covers, vacuums, media players, and thermostats directly through the conversation processing endpoint.

Home Assistant natural language commands return errors when the Assist API cannot resolve the target entity or area, providing simple error guidance to help you refine the conversational input for successful device control.