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Update the NOVA App to 0.13.13. It brings the chat-app changes below to Claude and ChatGPT and to the NOVA page, and Apps and logs to HA NOVA on your computer, which asks for it too.

  • In Home Assistant: Settings > Apps > NOVA Relay > Update.
  • Then in ChatGPT: open chatgpt.com/plugins, choose HA NOVA, then Refresh.
  • Claude asks once more before HA NOVA's tools: set them again as the NOVA page says. With a phone linked for chat apps, every tool on "Always allow"; without one, all but "Run a confirmed change".
  • A change you previewed before the update needs a new preview.

New Features

  • Chat apps do what HA NOVA on a computer does. At Manage everything: rooms, names, helpers, scenes, dashboards, integrations, files (with file access on) and more. Setup and InfluxDB history stay outside the chat.
  • Chat apps for everyone in your home. On the NOVA page, pick who else may use them, each with their own login: Ask only, Use the home, or Manage everything. A level never goes above their Home Assistant role.
  • Use the home never gets a chat code. Unlocking, opening a door, garage door or gate, and turning off the alarm need a tap on the person's own phone. Without one, they're refused.
  • In chat apps, each person confirms on their own phone. On the NOVA page, link, change, or stop yours under "Your phone", others' in their row. A change or stop asks the linked phone first; a new phone OKs its link.
  • Confirmations in your home's language. Is Home Assistant set to German? Then confirmations are in German, on the phone too, with Home Assistant's own words, like Automation or Verriegelt. Other languages get English.
  • One confirmation for up to 20 automation and script changes. Deletes too. The window names every item and what happens to it; the phone shows how many and the riskiest one. Undo now covers the last 25 changed items.
  • Fewer questions for everyday things. Pausing or skipping music, a small volume change, adding to a to-do list and switching a room's lights run right away. Big volume jumps, removals and unlocking still ask.
  • More of Home Assistant's settings. Integrations, repairs, users, general settings, backup schedule, Labs, statistics import, deleting a device or blueprint. Preview first; deletes and sensitive changes take your OK.
  • Apps and their logs, on HA OS. Read Supervisor, Core, host, and App logs; install or remove an App, or change its settings, after your own OK. Also in chat apps; on a computer, not through Home Assistant Link.
  • "Your setup" when you run setup again. What is done and what is left, with a button for each open step (in the terminal, its command). Another AI app on this computer can use HA NOVA too: setup shows what to paste.
  • Recent changes from chat apps. The NOVA page lists the last 20, newest first: who asked, what changed or was tried, and how it ended, like confirmed on their phone or with a chat code, or refused.
  • Setup can move to another Home Assistant. When something needs a fix, "Use another Home Assistant" asks for the new address. Without a key, setup no longer says the NOVA App doesn't answer.
  • Claude stops asking before every step, if you let it. The setup page and the NOVA page say what to set: with a phone linked for chat apps, every tool on "Always allow"; without one, all but "Run a confirmed change".
  • Setup finds Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app too. On a Mac, also without the codex command. Doctor flags an older HA NOVA copy that Codex would load; setup updates it, or moves HA NOVA's own old copies to a backup.
  • Clearer confirmations for technical requests. Common MQTT and Supervisor requests, like renaming a Zigbee device or restarting an App, now open with what they do in your home, then the details.

What To Watch

  • HACS installs and updates, and dashboard resources, now take your own confirmation, like a delete. In chat apps and on a computer. HACS code runs in Home Assistant, a dashboard resource in every signed-in browser.
  • Moving a device with a lock to another room takes your own confirmation. Also for an alarm panel, garage door, gate, or door, and for labels: an automation that opens a whole room would reach it.
  • The NOVA Relay App asks for more Supervisor access. It needs it for Apps and logs. Home Assistant lowers the App's security rating by one.
  • Passwords for setups and repairs go into Home Assistant, not the AI. When a step asks for a password, PIN, or key, HA NOVA sends you to Home Assistant to finish it, and refuses one it recognizes.
  • HA NOVA no longer stops or restarts its own App. That cut it off mid-request, also through a scene, script, or automation. Do it in Home Assistant under Settings > Apps. Starting or updating it still works.
  • Going back to a NOVA App before 0.13 refuses every chat request while others are on the chat-app list. To go back, first untick everyone but you on the NOVA page and save.
  • Another AI app on this computer may give up on a big change. It can stop waiting while the change still runs, and then say it failed. Chat apps have the fix now; other AI apps get it in a later update.

Bug Fixes

  • Big changes in chat apps no longer time out. The AI keeps asking for the result; if it stops first, ask it again. Nothing is sent twice. Other chat requests wait up to 20 s for it, then HA NOVA says it is busy.
  • The linked phone asks in big homes too. The checks before a confirmation could use up HA NOVA's read time, so the phone looked unreachable: only the window asked, or without one, the change was refused.
  • Answered on the computer, the phone's question disappears. The first answer counts. An answer in the window no longer leaves a result note on the phone.
  • Changes now work in homes with Nuki locks. Nuki, for one, gives Home Assistant number IDs. HA NOVA couldn't read them, so many changes and the phone setup failed. It now reads number IDs too.
  • Saving a scene keeps its other lights and devices. If the AI sent only the new one, the rest could drop out. A save that removes some now shows them in the preview and saves a copy of the scene first.
  • Setup asks whose phone should confirm on this computer. It lists every administrator's phone with its person and picks none for you. A person whose entity is disabled in Home Assistant no longer hides their phone.
  • Setup's optional questions stay readable. In the terminal, their answers stay on screen after setup ends, and a cancelled Link sign-in no longer skips the phone and the other questions.
  • Camera sign-in tokens stay hidden from the AI. A camera's or image's short-lived token opens its picture or live video without a login. It no longer reaches the AI, also not through a trace or an ordinary template.
  • A leftover Home Assistant Link is explained. Setup says what it is and lets you finish or remove it right there. Doctor no longer stops at it: it checks the rest and shows both ways out.
  • Setup says which Claude gets HA NOVA. Claude Code is the claude command and the Code tab in Claude Desktop. Setup replaces an old HA NOVA there. On a Mac, Claude Desktop alone is enough once its Code tab was opened.
  • Windows: setup no longer needs an AI app first. Without one, the installer opens setup, which offers Claude or ChatGPT in the browser. Setup also finds Claude Code installed through WinGet.
  • A stuck Claude Code no longer hangs setup, doctor, or later updates. Each Claude Code step has a time limit (30 s, or 3 min for downloads). Then HA NOVA stops it and skips Claude Code for the rest of that run.
  • Setup explains the owner sign-in. The owner connects each computer once; then anyone using that computer's user account can use HA NOVA. On the NOVA page, other admins see who the owner is.
  • Disabling or enabling a lock's device is refused. Also an alarm panel's, garage door's, or gate's, and removing or disabling the integration or switch one runs on. Do that in Home Assistant's settings.

Stable install commands are release-pinned for this tag.

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markusleben/ha-nova/v0.28.0/install.sh | HA_NOVA_VERSION=v0.28.0 bash

Windows (PowerShell):

$env:HA_NOVA_VERSION = 'v0.28.0'
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markusleben/ha-nova/v0.28.0/install.ps1 | iex

Windows currently ships an amd64 bundle only. On Windows 11 on ARM, install from the x64 PowerShell; the installer lists the steps.
Windows uses a single supported install path: install.ps1.
Do not download and run the raw ha-nova-installer-bundle-*.tar.gz / .zip assets directly; those are installer payloads, not the supported end-user path.

The bundle assets below are consumed by the installers automatically. Only use them directly for maintainer-level debugging or raw binary validation.

Full documentation: github.com/markusleben/ha-nova

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