Elgato Avea
avea
The Elgato Avea integration allows you to control Avea Bluetooth light bulbs with Home Assistant.
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 |
|---|---|---|
light | Light |
What people report
Elgato Avea bulbs work over Bluetooth; a library regression in 0.118 was fixed quickly in 0.118.4.
- Works2
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elgato Avea bulb | Works | Device info (manufacturer, model) added via BLE in 2026Saved copyProposed change Add device information for Avea lights. The integration now reads the standard BLE Device Information values exposed by `avea` during entity setup and exposes them through `DeviceInfo`: - manufacturer - hardware version - firmware version - serial number The cu Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #171624 · 2026-05 | |
| Elgato Avea bulb | Works | Documented as supported; Avea 1.5.1 fixed 0.118 breakageSaved copy… working Home Assistant Core release (if known): 0.116 - Operating environment (OS/Container/Supervised/Core): [code] - Integration causing this issue: Avea Bulb - Link to integration documentation on our website: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/avea/ ## Problem-relevant `configuration.yaml` <!-- An example configuration that caused the problem for you. Fill this out even if it seems unimportant to you. Please be sure to remove personal information like passwords, private URLs and other credent Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #43568 · 2020-11 |
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
- Bluetooth
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 6 |
|---|---|
| Added in | Home Assistant 0.97 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @pattyland |
Devices listed in its documentation
- Elgato Avea bulbs
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.
