Sofabaton X
m3tac0de/home-assistant-sofabaton-x1s · v0.7.1
Home Assistant integration for complete local control of the Sofabaton X1, X1S and X2 hub and remote.
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 |
|---|---|---|
switch | Switch or outlet | |
remote | TV remote (activities) | Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode |
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
The Sofabaton X1S hub works locally, but old hub firmware (AVER=2) silently drops command writes until it is upgraded.
- Works1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofabaton X1S hub | Works Local | Command writes dropped on firmware AVER=2; fixed by upgrading to AVER=5Saved copyFollow-up to #270, as requested in the review there. Short version: this was hub-side, and your read in the review was right. The hub was on firmware AVER=2. Every command write was ACKed but not retained, in-place and create alike. Upgrading to AVER=5 fixed persistence: the exact same guarded create-first sync that failed on AVER=2 then succeeded verbatim, so the integration's write path is exonerated. Hub: X1S, HVER=2, unit batch NO=20221120. Firmware AVER=2 at failure time, AVER=5 today (verified this week via the hub's mDNS TXT). Timeline (2026): - Jul 22: integration upgraded 0.6.2 to … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #272 · 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
- Bonjour (zeroconf)
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 610 (0.09%) |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 67 |
| Latest version | 0.7.1 (2026-10-18) |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @m3tac0de |
| 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.
