Mute account

The Mute account action mutes an account you follow, so their posts no longer appear in your timeline.

This is handy when you want to quiet down your timeline temporarily, for example muting a busy news account while you are on vacation and unmuting it again when you return. You can mute indefinitely or for a set duration.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To mute an account from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the search box, search for and select Mastodon: Mute account.
6. Select the Mastodon instance to use and enter the Account name to mute. Optionally set a Duration and whether to Hide notifications.
7. Select Save.

This action does not support targets. In the UI, you are not prompted to choose an area, device, entity, or label.

Options in the UI

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required.

In YAML, refer to this action as mastodon.mute_account. A basic example looks like this:

action: mastodon.mute_account
data:
  config_entry_id: 6b4be47a1fa7c3764f14cf756dc9899d
  account_name: "@[email protected]"

To find the config_entry_id, go to Developer tools > Actions, select this action, choose your Mastodon instance, and switch to YAML mode.

Options in YAML

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Developer tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more] without writing a line of YAML.

More examples

Real scenarios where this action shows up in automations and scripts. Copy any example and adapt it to your setup.

Automation: mute an account while you are away

This automation looks for an event in your calendar and mutes the specified account while the event is active, then unmutes it when the event ends.

• Trigger: A calendar event starts or ends
• Action: Mastodon: Mute account, or Mastodon: Unmute account

alias: "Mute a Mastodon account during an event"
triggers:
  - trigger: calendar.event_started
    target:
      entity_id: calendar.holiday
    id: "start"
  - trigger: calendar.event_ended
    target:
      entity_id: calendar.holiday
    id: "end"
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: "start"
        sequence:
          - action: mastodon.mute_account
            data:
              config_entry_id: 6b4be47a1fa7c3764f14cf756dc9899d
              account_name: "@[email protected]"
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: "end"
        sequence:
          - action: mastodon.unmute_account
            data:
              config_entry_id: 6b4be47a1fa7c3764f14cf756dc9899d
              account_name: "@[email protected]"

Still stuck?

The Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

These actions work well alongside this one:

• Unmute account: Unmutes a Mastodon account.

• Get account: Gets information about a Mastodon account.

• Post: Posts a status on your Mastodon account.

• Update profile: Updates your Mastodon profile information and pictures.