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Homeway provides a free cloud MCP server for Home Assistant, usable by any AI assistant or agent that supports MCP. It’s secure and private by default, and is extremely easy to set up. Homeway has a Privacy Commitment to protect your data. Setting up your Home Assistant MCP server integration in Visual Studio Code lets you query your home’s state and interact with it directly from VS Code.

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Set up Your Home Assistant MCP VS Code Server

  1. Open the Visual Studio Code
  2. Click on the search bar at the top, enter > mcp:add server
  3. Select the HTTP transport.
  4. Enter the following URL and press Enter.
    1. https://homeway.io/api/mcp
  5. Name your Home Assistant MCP server whatever you wish, then press enter.
  6. Select to add the MCP server to the Global space.
  7. VS Code will show you the MCP json config file and then will prompt you to authenticate the MCP server with Homeway.
  8. Select “Allow” on the authentication prompt.
  9. Select “Open” on the external website prmopt.
  10. Log in to Homeway
  11. Done!
Be sure to check out Homeway’s other awesome Home Assistant cloud tools like free remote access, Sage AI, Google and Alexa support, and more!