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Is Home Assistant draining
Is Home Assistant draining
your battery?
Somewhat — it's a moderate background drainer. Here's what 9 anonymous Battery Snitch devices reveal about Home Assistant.
C
48/100
Drain Score
Grade C — moderate background drain
Blends typical (median) and worst-case (p90) background runtime.
1h 17m
1%
9
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FAQ
Home Assistant & your battery
Does Home Assistant drain your battery?
Somewhat — it's a moderate background drainer. Across 9 anonymous reports, Home Assistant runs in the background for a median of 18 min per day, earning a moderate Drain Score of 48/100 (grade C).
How much battery does Home Assistant use in the background?
Typically it runs for about 18 min a day in the background — that's 1% of an entire day. On the heaviest devices it kept running for up to 1h 17m (90th percentile).
How can I stop Home Assistant from draining my battery?
Restrict its background activity in Settings → Apps → Home Assistant → Battery → "Restricted", revoke unused permissions, and disable background data if you don't need live updates. Battery Snitch finds the exact apps draining your phone and shows you what to change.
Where does this Home Assistant battery data come from?
It's crowdsourced from 9 real, anonymous Android devices running Battery Snitch. We rank by the median so a single outlier device can't skew the result — the more reports an app has, the more reliable its grade.
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