Do you know how to connect to multiple homes in Home Assistant?

If you manage more than one Home Assistant server (e.g. home + office, holiday house, or multiple client sites), you don’t need multiple phones.

The Home Assistant Companion App supports multiple servers, and there are a couple of clean ways to keep things separated depending on your privacy needs.

Option 1 - Add another server in the Home Assistant Companion App (recommended)

This is the simplest approach. One app, multiple servers.

Add your second (or third) server:

1. Open the Home Assistant app
2. Go to Settings | **Companion **app (or App Settings if you're not an administrator)
3. Tap Add Server
4. If your server is on the same network, it may appear automatically
5. If not, tap Enter address manually and paste your Home Assistant URL
6. Log in with your user account for that server

Figure: Journey through the Home Assistant app

Switch between servers (quickly):

• 3-finger swipe left/right: switch to the previous/next server
• 3-finger swipe up: open the server selection list

Important - privacy and sensor sharing

When you use one Companion App for multiple servers, your phone can share data (like sensors and location) to more than one server.

To reduce what gets shared with your work server:

1. Open the Home Assistant app
2. Go to Settings | Companion app
3. Select your Work server
4. Under Privacy, set Sensors Sent to None
5. Review Companion App permissions (Location, Notifications) and disable anything you don’t want sent to Work

Option 2 - Use a PWA shortcut (separate “app” icons, no Companion App extras)

If you mainly want quick access to dashboards (without sharing phone sensors), use a browser shortcut as a pseudo-app.

iPhone (Safari)

1. Open Safari and browse to your Home Assistant URL
2. Tap Share
3. Tap Add to Home Screen
4. Name it Home Assistant - Home (repeat for Work)

Android (Chrome)

1. Open Chrome and browse to your Home Assistant URL

2. Tap More (⋮)

3. Tap Add to home screen

4. Tap Create shortcut

5. Name it Home Assistant - Home (repeat for Work)

Option 3 - Android Work Profile (Test DPC) (best separation for Home vs Work)

If you want true separation (different logins, different Google account, separate app data), create an Android Work Profile. This gives you a second “Work” copy of the Home Assistant app.

Set up a Work Profile using Test DPC

1. Install Test DPC from Google Play
2. Open your app drawer and launch Set up Test DPC
3. Follow the wizard to create a Work Profile
4. You should now see a Work tab (or Work folder) in your apps list

Install a second Home Assistant app inside Work Profile

1. Switch to the Work tab in your apps
2. Open Google Play (Work Play Store)
3. Add a Google account that is not used in your personal profile (work-only account)
4. Install Home Assistant (this will be a separate Work instance)
5. Open the Work Home Assistant app and connect to your Work server (follow Option 1 steps)