Home Assistant

What this surface is for

Voice and smart-home endpoint

Behavior in the current codebase

• Designed for Assist pipeline conversations and direct smart-home control.
• Includes session history, follow-up mic behavior, satellite lookup caching, and notification bridging.
• Forms the conversational half of the Home Assistant integration story alongside automation actions.

Direct platform support

17 current Verba Plugins advertise direct support for this surface.

Configuration schema

• Continued chat (auto re-open mic) select

  If enabled, Tater automatically re-opens the Assist satellite mic when it ends with a question.

  Key: CONTINUED_CHAT_ENABLED Default: false Options: true, false
• Follow-up idle wait (seconds) number

  How long to wait for the satellite to return to idle before re-opening the mic.

  Key: FOLLOWUP_IDLE_TIMEOUT_S Default: 12
• Max History Cap number

  Hard ceiling to prevent runaway context sizes.

  Key: MAX_HISTORY_CAP Default: 20
• Assist satellite map cache TTL (seconds) number

  How long to cache the area→assist_satellite mapping (registry lookups).

  Key: SATELLITE_MAP_CACHE_TTL_S Default: 3600
• Session History (turns) number

  How many recent turns to include per HA conversation (smaller = faster).

  Key: SESSION_HISTORY_MAX Default: 6
• Session TTL select

  How long to keep a voice session’s history alive (5m–24h).

  Key: SESSION_TTL_SECONDS Default: 2h Options: 5m, 30m, 1h, 2h, 6h, 24h
• Voice PE entity #1 string

  Entity ID of a Voice PE light/LED (e.g., light.voice_pe_office)

  Key: VOICE_PE_ENTITY_1
• Voice PE entity #2 string

  Entity ID of a Voice PE light/LED (e.g., light.voice_pe_office)

  Key: VOICE_PE_ENTITY_2
• Voice PE entity #3 string

  Entity ID of a Voice PE light/LED (e.g., light.voice_pe_office)

  Key: VOICE_PE_ENTITY_3
• Voice PE entity #4 string

  Entity ID of a Voice PE light/LED (e.g., light.voice_pe_office)

  Key: VOICE_PE_ENTITY_4
• Voice PE entity #5 string

  Entity ID of a Voice PE light/LED (e.g., light.voice_pe_office)

  Key: VOICE_PE_ENTITY_5
• Bind Port number

  TCP port for the Tater ↔ HA bridge

  Key: bind_port Default: 8787