Web Search with Home Assistant and ChatGPT – Here’s How!

[native vine]

Hello Kiril is here,

What if your Home Assistant could search the internet for you using AI like ChatGPT?

Well... now it can (after HA 2025 release) 😎

With the new ChatGPT + Home Assistant integration, your smart home can:

Answer real-time questions using web search 🌍
Summarize news, weather, or sports updates in seconds
Even add a little humor to its replies 😄
I just released a brand new video + article showing you how to:
👉 Connect ChatGPT to your Home Assistant

👉 Enable web search with just a few simple clicks

👉 Set up automations like “Tell me the latest football news when I walk in the room”

🎥 Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/ocW9pRknuQM

📝 Read the step-by-step blog post: https://peyanski.com/web-search-with-home-assistant-and-chatgpt-heres-how/

Let your smart home be a little smarter.

Let me know if you try it — or have questions!

[coarse otter]

I stick with my own google and news scripts. Web search only works with out assist

[mint gorge]

Actually, web search does work with assist. It doesn’t work super well because it includes markdown and cited links, but it works.

[coarse otter]

you need to disable normal interactions if you enable the build in web search

[mint gorge]

What do you mean? Like with web search enabled it won’t activate any home control controls?

[coarse otter]

Only works with "No control" in the "Control Home Assistant" setting. See docs for a workaround using it with "Assist".

cut past from the gui

for my google AI that is

[mint gorge]

I just tested by enabling web search and leaving assist enabled. It searched the web and controlled my lights.

[coarse otter]

Google Search cannot be enabled alongside any Assist capability, this can only be used when Assist is set to "No control".

strange

what llm do you use

anyway i have my own script to call a scripted google search. have rss feeds for news i trust and a txt2html parser with cookie wall click away. to open the urls inside the rss feeds.

[mint gorge]

I just tried by enabling web search for OpenAI, just like OP wrote.