---
title: "System Bridge"
description: "System Bridge is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 401 installs sharing analytics and works locally."
canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/system-bridge"
url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/system-bridge.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
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# System Bridge

> System Bridge is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 401 installs sharing analytics and works locally.

System Bridge is a built-in integration that connects Home Assistant to a computer running System Bridge over the local network. It adds binary sensors for camera use and pending reboot, a media entity, update entities, notifiers, and sensors for readings such as memory use, CPU temperature, CPU speed, fan speed, battery time remaining and boot time. Actions let Home Assistant look up processes by ID or name, open a file or URL on the computer with its default application, and send a power command. Other actions send a keyboard keypress or text for the computer to type. Home Assistant can discover the computer on the network and offer to add it, and setup in the UI asks for host, port and token. A repair notice appears when the System Bridge version needs upgrading.

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

## 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.
- **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**
- **Port**
- **Token**

### Authenticate

- **API token**

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

## Entities

- **Binary sensors**: Camera in use, Pending reboot
- **Media**: Media
- **Sensors**: Amount of memory used, Battery time remaining, Boot time, CPU package power, CPU speed, CPU temperature, CPU voltage, Displays connected, Clock speed, Fan speed, Memory clock speed, Memory free, and 12 more

## Actions

- **Get process by ID**: Gets a process by the ID.
  Fields: Bridge, ID
- **Get processes by name**: Gets a list of processes by the name.
  Fields: Bridge, Name
- **Open path**: Opens a file on the server using the default application.
  Fields: Bridge, Path
- **Open URL**: Opens a URL on the server using the default application.
  Fields: Bridge, URL
- **Power command**: Sends a power command to the system.
  Fields: Bridge, Command
- **Send keyboard keypress**: Sends a keyboard keypress.
  Fields: Bridge, Key
- **Send keyboard text**: Sends text for the server to type.
  Fields: Bridge, Text

## Troubleshooting

- **Repair notices**: Notices it can show in Settings, Repairs:
  System Bridge upgrade required

## At a glance

- Kind: Built-in integration
- Category: [Computers and network](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/computers-and-network.md)
- Number: 401 installs sharing analytics
- Connection: Works locally
- Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant
- Needs: Built into Home Assistant
- Domain: `system_bridge`
- Source: <https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/system_bridge/>

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

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