Sentient for Home Assistant (Marketplace integration)

On Home Assistant 2026.10 or older? Open it in HACS

Installs: 51 sharing analytics
GitHub stars: 36
Connection: Works locally
Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months
Version: v0.98.20, November 9, 2026
Category: AI and voice, AI models
Kind: Marketplace integration
Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older)
Domain: sentient
Source: github.com/conahmorgan2304/sentient
Issues: Report an issue

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About

Sentient is a Home Assistant integration that gives every voice assistant and automation one shared memory and set of house rules. It decides when and in which room to speak, following quiet hours and room awareness, and can route speech to Assist speakers or media players. It learns routines from recent history, and a learned routine can be adopted so the house runs it by itself, or deleted for good. Other actions cover remembering and forgetting, watching a device or camera, reminders, spoken briefings, and a hush mode. It uses the conversation agent and AI task already in Home Assistant, so it needs no separate API key, and it works locally. It adds sensors and switches, is configured in the UI, and requires the Marketplace.

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Supports

Works locallyTalks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
From the MarketplaceInstalled through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.
Actively maintainedIts author released or pushed a change in the last six months.

Provides

Switches
Sensors

Setting it up

Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services.

Meet your home's brain

Name

How should the house speak?

Speakers
Default speaker
Quiet hours start
Quiet hours end
Stay quiet while busyWhile any of these is on (a meeting calendar, a Focus switch, a phone in Do Not Disturb), Sentient holds back speech that can wait, as if hushed. Safety alerts and replies you ask for still come through. Leave empty to turn this off.
Room awareness windowHow many minutes of motion history to weigh up when deciding where people are.
Never use these words (comma separated)
Stay quiet after these automations or scriptse.g. your doorbell announcement, so background remarks don't talk over it.
Stay quiet for
Memories to share with voice assistantsHow many memories are given to the voice assistant up front. The rest can still be searched.
Pass-through areasHallways, landings and stairs. Walking through these counts for much less, so a passer-by doesn't steal an announcement.
Speak in every occupied roomOn: everyone who's home hears it. Off: only the busiest room.
AI for background jobsThe AI task used for camera looks, briefings, the nightly think and the look at tomorrow. Empty uses Home Assistant's preferred AI task.
Minimum gap between camera checksA camera watch looks again at most this often, to keep AI costs down.
Backup-only speakersOnly used when nobody is in any other speaker's room, e.g. a living room you'd rather not disturb.

After setup

Name
SpeakersAssist speakers or media players (Echos through Alexa Media Player).
Default speaker
Quiet hours start
Quiet hours end
Stay quiet while busyWhile any of these is on (a meeting calendar, a Focus switch, a phone in Do Not Disturb), Sentient holds back speech that can wait, as if hushed. Safety alerts and replies you ask for still come through. Leave empty to turn this off.
Room awareness windowHow many minutes of motion history to weigh up when deciding where people are.
Never use these words (comma separated)
Stay quiet after these automations or scriptse.g. your doorbell announcement, so background remarks don't talk over it.
Stay quiet for
Memories to share with voice assistantsHow many memories are given to the voice assistant up front. The rest can still be searched.
Pass-through areasHallways, landings and stairs. Walking through these counts for much less, so a passer-by doesn't steal an announcement.
Speak in every occupied roomOn: everyone who's home hears it. Off: only the busiest room.
AI for background jobsThe AI task used for camera looks, briefings, the nightly think and the look at tomorrow. Empty uses Home Assistant's preferred AI task.
Minimum gap between camera checksA camera watch looks again at most this often, to keep AI costs down.
Edit a memory
Forget
Add a memory
Category for the new memory
Memory
Category
Briefings onOff turns off the button, the voice tool and the service.
Include
Weather fromLeave empty to use the first weather entity.
To-do lists
Calendars
System sensors to reporte.g. CPU temperature, disk use, the NAS. Pending updates are always counted.
Outside informationSensors from other integrations read into the briefing and the evening look at tomorrow: today's electricity price, a weather warning, parcels on the way, the next school inset day. Empty, zero and 'off' readings are left out. Text from these is treated as information only.
Parcel trackersWhen one says a parcel is out for delivery, it says so once and watches the door for it all day (even if parcel alerts are off); if it says delivered before anything's seen at the door, it says that too. Empty: off.
Daily briefing atOptional. Only spoken if someone's home and it isn't quiet hours.
Daily digest atOptional: once a day the AI sums up the timeline in a few sentences. It goes on the timeline (and to phones if chosen). Not spoken.
Briefing when someone's first upOnce a day before noon, in the room someone's in, as soon as the house sees them up and about (or, without that, the first time someone's moving after quiet hours end).
Morning briefing roomsOptional: only give it the first time someone comes into one of these rooms in the morning, on that room's speaker — get up, wash and dress, then hear it in the kitchen or living room. Empty: wherever they are.

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Entities

conversationWith backup, For Alexa
SensorsMemories, Last spoken, Likely room, Watches, Routines, Visitors, House health, Drive, Mind, House, Screen
SwitchesHush, Guest mode, Chime, Light show, Echo speakers, Echos: alarms and reminders only, Away lights, Tablet screen, Holiday mode

Actions

SaySpeak through the house, following quiet hours and room awareness.
- Message
- Priority
- Speaker
RememberAdd something to the house's long-term memory.
- Text
- Category
ForgetRemove a memory by id or by matching text.
- What
WatchKeep an eye on a device, sensor or camera and speak up when something happens.
- What
- Entity
- To state
- Above
- Below
- Question
- Look for
- Message
- Until
- Minutes
Cancel watchStop a watch.
- What
RemindSay something at a time, in the room where people are.
- Message
- At
- Minutes
- Speaker
- Priority
AskAsk a question out loud and listen for the answer, in the room where people are.
- Question
- Priority
- Speaker
- Extra instructions
- Chime first
Learn nowLook for routines in recent history straight away instead of waiting for tonight.
BriefingA short briefing of what matters right now, spoken where people are.
- Speak it
- Priority
Tidy memoriesMerge duplicates and drop nonsense from memory now (also runs every Sunday night).
Delete learned routineDelete a learned routine or habit for good — the house stops doing it and never learns or offers it again. With Restore on, bring deleted ones back (one, or all if Routine is empty).
- Routine
- Restore
Adopt routineHave the house do a learned routine by itself, or stop. Leave Adopt empty to toggle.
- Routine
- Adopt
HushSay nothing that isn't urgent for a while. 0 minutes stops hushing.
- Minutes
Run routineRun a named routine (set up on the sidebar page's Settings → Routines).
- Name
- Speak
- Details
Weekly reportPut together what the house learned and noticed in the last week, and keep it on the timeline.
Light showStart or stop a light show (disco, Halloween, Christmas…). Lights go back exactly as they were when it stops.
- On
- Style
- Minutes
- Room
- Lights
Reflect nowThink over the last day now, as it does overnight: new memories, morning thoughts and a question.
Check the driveTake one AI look at the drive spot now and update what's parked there.
WonderAdd a question for curiosity to ask, drop one, or ask the next one now.
- Question
- Ask now
- Dismiss
Follow upCheck back on something later and say how it went.
- Minutes
- About
- Entity
- State
- Above
- Below
- If done
- If not
- Speaker

Troubleshooting

DiagnosticsDownloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report.

From the README

An evolving AI brain for Home Assistant.
Sentient gives your home one shared brain. Every voice assistant and automation in the house uses the same memory, follows the same house rules about when and where to speak, and gets smarter the longer it runs. It learns your habits (including ones that follow sunset or getting up), can say why it did or said anything, lets you choose how much it does by itself, and keeps a record of what it sends to AI services.

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