Call Home Assistant. Turn On the Lights.

You are settled in your chair. The room has gotten dark. The house phone is within reach.

With an optional Home Assistant connection configured, the idea is pleasantly simple: call the assistant, ask it to turn on the living-room lights, and hang up when you are done.

Your phone becomes another way to speak to the smart home you already have. You do not need to find the right dashboard for a small everyday request.

What you need at home

This is for a household that already runs Home Assistant, has a compatible light connected to it, and has its voice assistant, Assist, working. Doorman’s underlying phone software includes a disabled-by-default example route for reaching Assist at 555. The person managing the Brain must enable and test the connection first.

This is an advanced optional integration, not something every Doorman phone can do immediately after unpacking. It depends on compatible audio support and a working Home Assistant setup. It does not require an upgraded Doorman account plan; your chosen Home Assistant services may have their own costs.

Start with one lamp

Give the light a name the family will naturally say. Confirm that Assist can control it, then try a short request from the handset: “Turn on the living-room lamp.”

Keep the first experiment simple. A lamp is a good way to learn what the assistant hears and how it replies. Decide which devices the phone should be allowed to control before expanding the setup.

Anyone with access to an authorized handset may be able to issue those commands. The connection is not a way to recognize which family member is speaking.

Your voice setup determines where audio goes

Home Assistant supports local voice processing as well as cloud-based options. Your configuration determines which services receive the spoken request; using a home phone does not by itself make the whole process local. Home Assistant explains its local voice setup here.

Once configured, the everyday experience should be a short call and a useful result. Leave the technical work to the companion article—or the computer-savvy person who helps with your household setup.

Ready to connect it? Read the separate technical walkthrough.