diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/misc/home-assistant.nix b/nixos/modules/services/misc/home-assistant.nix
index 95a7f2ea989b..5ee5e4dc5632 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/misc/home-assistant.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/misc/home-assistant.nix
@@ -29,14 +29,24 @@ let
   #   platform = "luftdaten";
   #   ...
   # } ];
+  #
+  # Beginning with 0.87 Home Assistant is migrating their components to the
+  # scheme "platform.subComponent", e.g. "hue.light" instead of "light.hue".
+  # See https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/02/19/the-great-migration.html.
+  # Hence, we also check whether we find an entry in the config when interpreting
+  # the first part of the path as the component.
   useComponentPlatform = component:
     let
       path = splitString "." component;
+      # old: platform is the last part of path
       parentConfig = attrByPath (init path) null cfg.config;
       platform = last path;
-    in isList parentConfig && any
-      (item: item.platform or null == platform)
-      parentConfig;
+      # new: platform is the first part of the path
+      parentConfig' = attrByPath (tail path) null cfg.config;
+      platform' = head path;
+    in
+      (isList parentConfig && any (item: item.platform or null == platform) parentConfig)
+      || (isList parentConfig' && any (item: item.platform or null == platform') parentConfig');
 
   # Returns whether component is used in config
   useComponent = component: