Lighting

PitBoss

dknowles2/ha-pitboss · v2026.8.1

HACSLocal push

Home Assistant Custom Integration for PitBoss smokers and grills

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
`switch`	Switch or outlet
`climate`	Thermostat
`binary_sensor`	Sensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…)
`sensor`	Sensor (temperature, humidity, air quality…)
`button`	Button (as a switch)
`select`	Mode picker (as switches)

What people report

Pit Boss Wi-Fi grills connect via Bluetooth or cloud; a local Wi-Fi transport only works on some grills.

Partly works1

Device	In Home Assistant	In Apple Home	What they said	Source
Pit Boss Wi-Fi grill	Partly works		Local RPC not available on every grill; adaptive polling and reauth shipped Saved copy Splitting set 7 of #321 out, because what we learned on pytboss#505 changes its shape enough that tracking it as one line on a roadmap is no longer honest. Three items, listed as 16–18 there: local WiFi transport, adaptive polling, reauth flow. ## The finding that changes it The local RPC interface is not available on every grill, and there is no property that predicts it. \| grill \| board \| firmware \| `http.enable` \| \|---\|---\|---\|---\| \| PB1600PS1 (mine) \| PBL \| 0.5.7 \| `true` \| \| @Giordano22's \| PBL \|, \| `true` \| \| PBV4PS2 (@dknowles2's) \| PBL \| 0.5.7 \| `false` \| Same board, same firmware … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	Issue #344 · 2026-08

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 push

Talks to the device on your network, and the device tells Home Assistant the moment something changes.

Found automatically over

Bluetooth

Details

Installs (analytics)	291 (0.04%)
GitHub stars	69
Latest version	2026.8.1 (2026-10-22)
Set up in the UI	Yes
Maintainers	@dknowles2
License	MIT

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://github.com/dknowles2/ha-pitboss
Source code: https://github.com/dknowles2/ha-pitboss
Issues: https://github.com/dknowles2/ha-pitboss/issues
HACS: https://hacs.xyz