# BEGA joins Works with Home Assistant

DevFeed: [BEGA joins Works with Home Assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bega-joins-works-with-home-assistant-16680.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/05/05/bega-joins-works-with-home-assistant/>)

Author: Miranda Bishop

Published: 2026-05-05T00:00:01Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Home Assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/home-assistant.md>)

Topics: [Home Assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/home-assistant.md>)

Tags: [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [devices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devices.md>), [ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem.md>), [energy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy.md>), [offline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/offline.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [smart](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smart.md>), [smart-home](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smart-home.md>), [sustainability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sustainability.md>), [tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech.md>), [works-with-home-assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/works-with-home-assistant.md>)

## AI overview

BEGA has joined the Works with Home Assistant program, bringing a large portfolio of certified architectural lighting products. Its BEGA Smart system uses Zigbee, supports flexible expansion, and works offline without an internet connection. The article also highlights BEGA's repairable fixtures and replaceable components, including outdoor lighting options.

## Source excerpt

How do you more or less double the number of Works with Home Assistant-certified devices available to our community? Have BEGA join the program! This German firm has spent more than 75 years designing a wide range of architectural lighting that sets the industry standard: and now they're bringing that expertise to your smart home. Bright BEGA-nnings If you haven't heard of BEGA before, you may have admired their work without realizing it. That's because they produce the kind of beautifully engineered fixtures you see gracing the facades of fancy hotels, elegant public buildings, and stylish modern homes worldwide. They're probably better known for this kind of work than for smart home tech, which is precisely what makes their joining the Works with Home Assistant program so exciting. Because BEGA aren't just dipping a toe in: they're bringing what's almost certainly the largest single addition of certified devices we've ever had in one go: enough to very nearly double the number of certified products in the program! And it's not just the volume that impresses. BEGA Smart - their Zigbee-powered smart lighting system - is flexible, expandable, and designed to work entirely offline, with no internet connection required. BEGA: putting the smart into smart home lighting. "With BEGA Smart, we aim to combine high-quality architectural lighting with intelligent control. Integrating with Home Assistant allows us to bring our lighting solutions into an open and flexible smart home ecosystem that many of our customers already value. By doing so, we enhance comfort, safety, and energy efficiency while enabling new ways to experience light. We're excited to support the community and be part of this ecosystem." - Heinrich Gantenbrink, Managing Partner at BEGA Beyond beautiful design BEGA's premium positioning isn't only about aesthetics. Their commitment to repairability also aligns well with the Open Home Foundation's sustainability principles. Rather than treating a luminaire a