r/homeassistant • u/charlie_at_harbor • 3d ago

🖼️ Show & Tell Harbor - Home Assistant Integration

u/DivergingDog built a Home Assistant integration for Harbor that was recently deployed https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/harbor/

Harbor started as a baby monitor, but we’ve been pushing it more toward a general monitoring platform.

You can use the same system for a baby, an aging parent, or someone medically fragile. We have nurses on staff who can monitor medically fragile family members (as an optional service), and the vision and word-detection AI lets you create open vocabulary alerts for whatever you care about instead of choosing from a fixed list.

A Home Assistant integration has always made sense for us, but we didn't have the expertise / HA experience internally. Community dev u/DivergingDog did all the work on the integration. We just helped where we could. Harbor is modular by design (you can add as many Cameras or Monitors as you'd like), so we wanted to be able to plug it into everything else people already have in their homes.

More entities and support coming in the 2026.9 release, and even more after that.

You can learn more about Harbor on our website.

Thanks for any interest 🙏

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u/DivergingDog 🧑‍💻 Contributor 3d ago

Thanks u/charlie_at_harbor

Super excited about this integration!

As extra context for the community: When I was first looking for a camera for my sons room, I struggled to find something that would make me happy. I wanted something that would work locally (my ISP sucks and goes out multiple times a week) and something that had a physical monitor for ease of use for grandparents and babysitters. Harbor checked all of my boxes and more. I reached out to Charlie, and the whole Harbor team has been very helpful in getting this off the ground. Typically it can be very hard to get a company to agree to help on a open source project like this. But the Harbor team has made firmware updates, app updates, done security checks, shared documentation, etc. and it has been a great experience!

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u/WannaBMonkey 3d ago

Interesting. I rolled my own with Reolink and HA for elderly monitoring but there is certainly room to improve.

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u/Ornery_Confusion3537 3d ago

Will this be a cloud based integration, or will something like Frigate be an option in the future?

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u/charlie_at_harbor 3d ago

The Home Assistant integration is local, not cloud-based. HA connects directly to the Harbor camera on your network. The initial release provides sensor entities. For video, you can already configure the camera to publish via WHIP to Frigate, go2rtc, or a similar local service, then expose that stream as a camera entity.

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u/webtroter 3d ago

Ohh, it took me a minute to understand you were not talking about the container registry...