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title: "Universal Powerline Bus (UPB)"
description: "Universal Powerline Bus (UPB) is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 62 installs sharing analytics and works locally."
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url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/upb.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
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# Universal Powerline Bus (UPB)

> Universal Powerline Bus (UPB) is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 62 installs sharing analytics and works locally.

Universal Powerline Bus (UPB) is a built-in integration that controls UPB lights and scenes locally. It connects through a UPB PIM, using either a serial port or a network address, and reads device definitions from an UPStart export file. Lights and scenes appear in Home Assistant as light and scene entities. Beyond basic control, it offers actions to blink a light or a link, start and stop fades on lights and links, and deactivate a link. Another action sets a link to a chosen brightness. Setup is done in the user interface.

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

## 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.
- **Updated with Home Assistant**: Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

## Setting it up

It is added under Settings, Devices and services, with Add integration.

### Connect to UPB PIM

- **Device**: The serial port or network address of the UPB PIM.
- **UPStart export file**: Path and name of the UPStart UPB export file.

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

## Actions

- **Blink light**: Blinks a light.
  Fields: Rate
- **Start light fade**: Starts fading a light either up or down from current brightness.
  Fields: Brightness, Brightness percentage, Rate
- **Stop light fade**: Stops a light fade.
- **Blink link**: Blinks a link.
  Fields: Blink rate
- **Deactivate link**: Deactivates a UPB scene.
- **Start link fade**: Starts fading a link either up or down from current brightness.
  Fields: Brightness, Brightness percentage, Rate
- **Stop link fade**: Stops a link fade.
- **Go to link**: Set scene to brightness.
  Fields: Brightness, Brightness percentage, Rate

## At a glance

- Kind: Built-in integration
- Category: [Lighting](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/lighting.md)
- Number: 62 installs sharing analytics
- Connection: Works locally
- Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant
- Needs: Built into Home Assistant
- Domain: `upb`
- Source: <https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/upb/>

In Vulpo: Light card, Scene card, Apple Watch, Control Center

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

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