Keba Charging Station
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The Keba Charging Station integration integrates your Keba P30/P20 charging station/BMW Wallbox into your Home Assistant instance using the UDP Smart Home Interface (manual). Keba P40 charging stations are not yet supported as they use a different protocol. The fetching interval to the charging station is set to 5 seconds, same as in the official mobile app. To use the integration, enable the UDP Smart Home Interface by adjusting the DIP switches within the charging station according to the inst
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 |
|---|---|---|
lock | Lock | Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode |
binary_sensor | Sensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…) |
What people report
Keba P20/P30 chargers work over the UDP API; P40 lacks UDP and users use Modbus instead.
- Works1
- Won’t be supported1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keba KeContact P20/P30 | Works Local | UDP API supported; setup flaky after 2025.7Saved copysame issue as @Taraman17 - Not able to setup my new Keba P40 wallbox in HA. Same error code. Thanks for help ``` Error during setup of component keba: Could not connect to Keba charging station at 192.168.178.97. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/setup.py", line 426, in _async_setup_component result = await task ^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/keba/init.py", line 67, in async_setup if not await keba.setup(): ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/keba/init.py", line 149, in setup … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #148030 · 2025-07 | |
| Keba KeContact P40 | Won’t be supported Local | No UDP API; works via core Modbus integration insteadSaved copysame issue as @Taraman17 - Not able to setup my new Keba P40 wallbox in HA. Same error code. Thanks for help ``` Error during setup of component keba: Could not connect to Keba charging station at 192.168.178.97. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/setup.py", line 426, in _async_setup_component result = await task ^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/keba/init.py", line 67, in async_setup if not await keba.setup(): ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/keba/init.py", line 149, in setup … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #148030 · 2025-07 |
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.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 445 (0.06%) |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Legacy |
| Added in | Home Assistant 0.98 |
| Set up in the UI | No, YAML |
| Maintainers | @dannerph |
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.
