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title: "Brother Printer"
description: "Brother Printer is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 48.9k installs sharing analytics and works locally."
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url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/brother.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
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# Brother Printer

> Brother Printer is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 48.9k installs sharing analytics and works locally.

Brother Printer is a built-in integration that reads status and supply data from Brother printers. It adds binary sensors for conditions such as an open door, paper jam, low toner or ink, empty paper, and a full output tray. Sensors cover supply levels, drum life and remaining pages, and page counts for black and white and color printing. Communication stays local, using SNMP with a host, port and community setting, and a printer type where one is needed. Home Assistant can discover a printer on the network and offer to add it, and setup is done in the UI. Connection settings can be changed later without removing the printer, and a diagnostics file can be downloaded for bug reports.

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[Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/config_flow_start/?domain=brother)

## Supports

- **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
- **Set up in the UI**: Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download.
- **Found by itself**: Home Assistant spots it on the network and offers to add it.
- **Change settings later**: Its connection settings can change without removing it.
- **Platinum quality**: Home Assistant's own rating of its code and setup experience.
- **Updated with Home Assistant**: Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

## Setting it up

Home Assistant usually finds it on the network and offers to add it. It can also be added by hand under Settings, Devices and services.

### Connect

- **Host**: The hostname or IP address of the Brother printer to control.
- **Printer type**: The type of the Brother printer.
- **SNMP Community**: A simple password for devices to communicate to each other.
- **Port**: The SNMP port of the Brother printer.

### Discovered Brother Printer

- **Printer type**: The type of the Brother printer.
- **SNMP Community**: A simple password for devices to communicate to each other.
- **Port**: The SNMP port of the Brother printer.

### Change the connection

- **Host**: The hostname or IP address of the Brother printer to control.
- **SNMP Community**: A simple password for devices to communicate to each other.
- **Port**: The SNMP port of the Brother printer.

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, [Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

## Entities

- **Binary sensors**: Door open, Input tray empty, Input tray missing, Paper jam, Low ink, Low paper, Low toner, No ink, No paper, No toner, Output tray full, Output tray almost full, and 3 more
- **Sensors**: Belt unit life, Black drum pages, Black drum life, Black drum pages left, Black ink, Black toner, B/W pages, Color pages, Cyan drum pages, Cyan drum life, Cyan drum pages left, Cyan ink, and 24 more

## Troubleshooting

- **Diagnostics**: Downloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report.

## At a glance

- Kind: Built-in integration
- Category: [Computers and network](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/computers-and-network.md), Printers
- Brand: [Brother](https://vulpo.app/integrations/brother.md)
- Number: 48.9k installs sharing analytics
- Connection: Works locally
- Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant
- Needs: Built into Home Assistant
- Quality scale: Platinum quality scale
- Domain: `brother`
- Source: <https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/brother/>

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## Other ways in for Brother

| Name | Kind | Installs or stars | Connection | Upkeep |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Brother DCP-1610W Scanner](https://github.com/gabest11/homeassistant-brother_scanner) | Marketplace integration | 18 installs sharing analytics | Works locally | No update in 6 to 18 months |
| [April Brother BLE Gateway](https://github.com/chkuendig/hass-ab_ble_gateway) | Marketplace integration | 5 installs sharing analytics | Works locally | No update in 6 to 18 months |

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Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/brother

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