diff --git a/pkgs/servers/home-assistant/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/home-assistant/default.nix
index fb76874eb5d0..671ee2dee47c 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/home-assistant/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/home-assistant/default.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ let
   defaultOverrides = [
     # Override the version of some packages pinned in Home Assistant's setup.py and requirements_all.txt
 
+    (self: super: {
+      backoff = super.backoff.overridePythonAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
+        version = "1.11.1";
+        src = fetchFromGitHub {
+          owner = "litl";
+          repo = "backoff";
+          rev = "v${version}";
+          hash = "sha256-87IMcLaoCn0Vns8Ub/AFmv0gXtS0aPZX0cSt7+lOPm4=";
+        };
+      });
+    })
+
     (self: super: {
       bsblan = super.bsblan.overridePythonAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
         version = "0.5.0";