--- title: "Sentient" description: "Sentient is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 51 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated November 9, 2026." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/conahmorgan2304-sentient" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/conahmorgan2304-sentient.md" last-updated: "2026-11-09" version: "1.4" --- # Sentient > Sentient is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 51 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated November 9, 2026. 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. Automatic summary of the README and code of conahmorgan2304/sentient. Something wrong, or are you the maintainer and want your own text here? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/support) [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=conahmorgan2304&repository=sentient&category=integration) On Home Assistant 2026.10 or older? [Open it in HACS](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=conahmorgan2304&repository=sentient&category=integration) ## Supports - **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between. - **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS. - **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months. ## 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 busy**: While 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 window**: How 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 scripts**: e.g. your doorbell announcement, so background remarks don't talk over it. - **Stay quiet for** - **Memories to share with voice assistants**: How many memories are given to the voice assistant up front. The rest can still be searched. - **Pass-through areas**: Hallways, landings and stairs. Walking through these counts for much less, so a passer-by doesn't steal an announcement. - **Speak in every occupied room**: On: everyone who's home hears it. Off: only the busiest room. - **AI for background jobs**: The 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 checks**: A camera watch looks again at most this often, to keep AI costs down. - **Backup-only speakers**: Only used when nobody is in any other speaker's room, e.g. a living room you'd rather not disturb. ### After setup - **Name** - **Speakers**: Assist speakers or media players (Echos through Alexa Media Player). - **Default speaker** - **Quiet hours start** - **Quiet hours end** - **Stay quiet while busy**: While 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 window**: How 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 scripts**: e.g. your doorbell announcement, so background remarks don't talk over it. - **Stay quiet for** - **Memories to share with voice assistants**: How many memories are given to the voice assistant up front. The rest can still be searched. - **Pass-through areas**: Hallways, landings and stairs. Walking through these counts for much less, so a passer-by doesn't steal an announcement. - **Speak in every occupied room**: On: everyone who's home hears it. Off: only the busiest room. - **AI for background jobs**: The 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 checks**: A 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 on**: Off turns off the button, the voice tool and the service. - **Include** - **Weather from**: Leave empty to use the first weather entity. - **To-do lists** - **Calendars** - **System sensors to report**: e.g. CPU temperature, disk use, the NAS. Pending updates are always counted. - **Outside information**: Sensors 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 trackers**: When 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 at**: Optional. Only spoken if someone's home and it isn't quiet hours. - **Daily digest at**: Optional: 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 up**: Once 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 rooms**: Optional: 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. Texts from the code of [conahmorgan2304/sentient](https://github.com/conahmorgan2304/sentient). ## Entities - **conversation**: With backup, For Alexa - **Sensors**: Memories, Last spoken, Likely room, Watches, Routines, Visitors, House health, Drive, Mind, House, Screen - **Switches**: Hush, Guest mode, Chime, Light show, Echo speakers, Echos: alarms and reminders only, Away lights, Tablet screen, Holiday mode ## Actions - **Say**: Speak through the house, following quiet hours and room awareness. Fields: Message, Priority, Speaker - **Remember**: Add something to the house's long-term memory. Fields: Text, Category - **Forget**: Remove a memory by id or by matching text. Fields: What - **Watch**: Keep an eye on a device, sensor or camera and speak up when something happens. Fields: What, Entity, To state, Above, Below, Question, Look for, Message, Until, Minutes - **Cancel watch**: Stop a watch. Fields: What - **Remind**: Say something at a time, in the room where people are. Fields: Message, At, Minutes, Speaker, Priority - **Ask**: Ask a question out loud and listen for the answer, in the room where people are. Fields: Question, Priority, Speaker, Extra instructions, Chime first - **Learn now**: Look for routines in recent history straight away instead of waiting for tonight. - **Briefing**: A short briefing of what matters right now, spoken where people are. Fields: Speak it, Priority - **Tidy memories**: Merge duplicates and drop nonsense from memory now (also runs every Sunday night). - **Delete learned routine**: Delete 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). Fields: Routine, Restore - **Adopt routine**: Have the house do a learned routine by itself, or stop. Leave Adopt empty to toggle. Fields: Routine, Adopt - **Hush**: Say nothing that isn't urgent for a while. 0 minutes stops hushing. Fields: Minutes - **Run routine**: Run a named routine (set up on the sidebar page's Settings → Routines). Fields: Name, Speak, Details - **Weekly report**: Put together what the house learned and noticed in the last week, and keep it on the timeline. - **Light show**: Start or stop a light show (disco, Halloween, Christmas…). Lights go back exactly as they were when it stops. Fields: On, Style, Minutes, Room, Lights - **Reflect now**: Think over the last day now, as it does overnight: new memories, morning thoughts and a question. - **Check the drive**: Take one AI look at the drive spot now and update what's parked there. - **Wonder**: Add a question for curiosity to ask, drop one, or ask the next one now. Fields: Question, Ask now, Dismiss - **Follow up**: Check back on something later and say how it went. Fields: Minutes, About, Entity, State, Above, Below, If done, If not, Speaker ## Troubleshooting - **Diagnostics**: Downloads 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. From the README of [conahmorgan2304/sentient](https://github.com/conahmorgan2304/sentient#readme), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened. ## At a glance - Kind: Marketplace integration - Category: [AI and voice](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/ai-and-voice.md), AI models - Number: 51 installs sharing analytics; 36 GitHub stars - Connection: Works locally - Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months - Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older) - Latest version: v0.98.20, last updated November 9, 2026 - Domain: `sentient` - Source: - Issues: - Screenshot: https://vulpo.app/integrations-img/f5e677a780ffd2ea.webp (from conahmorgan2304/sentient's README) - Screenshot: https://vulpo.app/integrations-img/63b277dede0d6187.webp (from conahmorgan2304/sentient's README) In Vulpo: Quick Toggle card, Chart card, Apple Watch, Control Center Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. Not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation. [About these numbers](https://vulpo.app/integrations/about) Last updated 2026-11-09. 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