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Awesome Home Assistant Awesome

Home Assistant is an open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.

If you want to get an impression on the look and feel, you should check out the Home Assistant online demo.

Awesome Home Assistant is a curated list of awesome Home Assistant resources. Additional software, tutorials, custom integration, add-ons, custom Lovelace cards & plugins, cookbooks, example setups, and much more.

The list is divided into categories. The links in those categories do not have pre-established order; the order is for contribution. If you want to contribute, please read the guide.

Contents

How to use

Awesome Home Assistant is a fantastic list for people trying to automate every aspect of their home. Automating your home is a long, hard, and never finished task that usually involves a lot of tinkering.

You can navigate through the list by:

Installing

Home Assistant has several installation / running methods. Many people have different opinions and their personal favorites. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. Important to know, there is no wrong, or right here, each technique installs the SAME Home Assistant.

Home Assistant currently recommends the Home Assistant OS installation method.

In case you need help

There are various ways to get in touch with the Home Assistant community. It doesn't matter if you have a question, need help, want to request a feature, or just say โ€˜Hiโ€™.

Official Channels

Other Channels

Public Configurations

Some people store their full Home Assistant configuration on GitHub. They are an awesome source for learning and a great source of inspiration.

  • Carlo Costanzo - Probably the most documented configuration out there.
  • DubhAd - Also known as Tinkerer shares his configuration files.
  • geekofweek - Has over 300+ automations.
  • Isabella Gross Alstrรถm - Hass.io, Intel NUC, Ubuntu, Docker, Lovelace UI.
  • Mahasri Kalavala - Impressive setup, with lots of different hardware working together.
  • stanvx - Complete setup which uses AppDaemon and HA Floorplan as well.
  • Vasiley - Runs two instances that work together.
  • Alok Saboo - Also known as arsaboo. Regularly updated.
  • Aaron Bach - Also known as bachya. Regularly updated and includes numerous Dockerized services.
  • James McCarthy - Well documented, 3 instances & automations in YAML & Node-RED.
  • Franck Nijhof - Hass.io based, very different configuration structure compared to others.
  • Andrea Donno - Hass.io based, focused on touchscreen usage.
  • Klaas Schoute - Hass.io based, Intel NUC, Ubuntu Server, Docker and regularly updated.
  • Jason Hunter - Hass.io based, Intel NUC i5, TensorFlow & camera streams.
  • Nathan - Lovelace config and themes based on Soft UI.
  • Andrea Iannucci - Also known as SeLLeRoNe. Regularly updated.

Add-ons

Add-ons are additional applications and services, that can be run alongside Home Assistant. The Home Assistant OS and Supervised installations types, provide the Supervisor, which is capable of running and manage these add-ons.

Official Add-ons

Created and maintained by the Home Assistant team.

  • DuckDNS - Updates your Duck DNS IP address and generate SSL using Let's Encrypt.
  • File editor - Browser-based configuration file editor.
  • Mosquitto - Fast and reliable MQTT broker.
  • Terminal & SSH - Allows logging in remotely to using a web terminal or SSH client.
  • Samba - Access your configuration files using Windows network shares.
  • NGINX SSL proxy - Reverse proxy with SSL termination.
  • deCONZ - Control a ZigBee network using ConBee or RaspBee hardware by Dresden Elektronik.
  • TellStick - Run a TellStick and TellStick Duo service.
  • Ada - Ada is voice assistant powered by Almond which is open and privacy-preserving.
  • Almond - The Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant.
  • HomeMatic - HomeMatic central based on OCCU.
  • Let's Encrypt - Get a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt; an open and automated certificate authority (CA).
  • MariaDB - An open source relational database (fork of MySQL).
  • OpenZWave - Use an Z-Wave USB-stick with the QT OpenZWave Daemon.

Third Party Add-ons

Anyone can create an add-on, the following are created by the community.

  • SSH & Web Terminal - SSH and Web-based terminal with tons of pre-loaded useful tools.
  • UniFi Controller - The UniFi Controller allows you to manage your UniFi network using a web browser.
  • Node-RED - Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things.
  • Plex Media Server - Your recorded media beautifully organized and ready to stream.
  • IDE - Advanced web-based IDE, based on Cloud9 IDE.
  • Dasshio - Easily use your Amazon Dash Buttons.
  • InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.
  • Grafana - Open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring.
  • Tor - Protect your privacy and access your instance via Tor.
  • Spotify Connect - Spotify Connect client for playing music on your Home Assistant device.
  • zigbee2mqtt - Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges.
  • AppDaemon - Python Apps and HADashboard.
  • TasmoAdmin - Centrally manage all your Sonoff-Tasmota devices.
  • Aircast - AirPlay capabilities for your Chromecast players.
  • AirSonos - AirPlay capabilities for your Sonos players.
  • Dropbox Sync - Upload your backup snapshots to Dropbox.
  • Log Viewer - Browser-based live log viewing utility.
  • Tautulli - Monitor and get statistics from your Plex server.
  • motionEye - Simple, elegant and feature-rich CCTV/NVR for your cameras.
  • JupyterLab Lite - Create documents containing live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text.
  • Backup to Google Drive - Backup snapshots to Google Drive.
  • ADB - The Android Debug Bridge server program.
  • Glances - A cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.
  • Matrix - A secure and decentralized communication platform.
  • AdGuard Home - A network-wide ad-and-tracker blocking DNS server with parental control.
  • Traccar - Traccar is modern GPS Tracking Platform.
  • Home Panel - A touch-compatible web frontend for controlling the home.
  • Hass.io Google Drive Backup - A complete and easy to configure solution for backing up your snapshots to Google Drive.
  • Grocy - ERP beyond your fridge! A groceries & household management solution for your home.

Lovelace User Interface

The Home Assistant frontend is already pretty, but you can customize it to fit your needs or taste better.

Themes

It is all about the looks, apply some style.

  • ๐Ÿ“บ Themes Tutorial - Quick tutorial/example on how to configure themes.
  • Midnight - A dark theme by Marcel Hoffs.
  • Dark Cyan - A dark theme with cyan accents by Ryoen Deprouw.
  • Grey Night - A dark theme with grey accents by ksya.
  • Dark Red - A dark theme with red accents by Ryoen Deprouw.
  • Halloween - Pumpkins colored by Mahasri Kalavala.
  • Black and Green - A dark theme with pale green accents by GreenTurtwig.
  • Vintage - Give your frontend a vintage look with this theme by Anup Surendran.
  • Carbon Green - Light carbon theme with green accents by Reua.
  • 20 Great Themes - 20 Great themes by JuanMTech (includes a guide).
  • Many Themes, One Repo - 13 Themes in a convenient ZIP file.
  • Slate - A dark theme close to the vanila looks from seangreen2.
  • Synthwave - A theme influenced by the cover artwork of modern Synthwave bands.
  • Google Home Theme - Two themes (light and dark) matching the design of Google Home Hub.

Custom Lovelace UI Cards

Lovelace allows people to build custom cards on top of it, which you can easily add to your instance.

Alternative Dashboards

  • TileBoard - A simple yet highly configurable Dashboard.

Custom Components

Additional components for Home Assistant, that were created by the community.

  • Hue Sensors - Enables the use of Philips Hue sensors.
  • Google Geocode - Converts a device tracker location into a human-readable address.
  • Lutron Caseta Pro - Integrates Lutron Caseta Smart Bridge PRO / RA2 Select.
  • SmartIR - Integrates devices using Broadlink IR.
  • Xiaomi Hygrothermo - Sensor platform for Xiaomi Mijia BT Hygrothermo temperature and humidity sensor.
  • Volkswagen Carnet - Integrates Volkswagen Carnet (requires valid Carnet subscription).
  • Untappd - Connects with your Untappd account.
  • Elasticsearch - Publishes events to Elasticsearch.
  • Sonoff/eWeLink - Control Sonoff/eWeLink smart devices using the stock firmware.
  • Alexa Media Player - Allow control of Amazon Alexa devices.
  • iCloud3 - Improved version of the iCloud device tracker component with a lot of capabilities.
  • HACS - This is a manager for your custom integration (components) and plugin (lovelace elements) needs.
  • breaking_changes - Component to show potential breaking_changes in the current published version based on your loaded components.
  • Circadian Lighting - Circadian Lighting slowly synchronizes your color changing lights with the regular naturally occuring color temperature of the sky throughout the day.
  • HASS Aarlo - Asynchronous Arlo integration. Similar to the Arlo web site; monitors events and states for all base stations, cameras and doorbells.
  • Xiaomi Cloud Map Extractor - This custom integration provides a way to present a live view of a map for a Xiaomi (and Roborock) vacuums without a need for rooting.

DIY

Do It Yourself; rather than buying home automation hardware or solutions, you could also build them yourself!

  • ESPHome - Program ESP8266 boards and ESP32 boards using YAML.
  • Magic Cards - RFID scannable cards that you can program to do anything.
  • Sonoff Tasmota - Firmware for ESP8266 boards and devices.

DIY Gateways

  • OpenMQTTGateway - A flexible MQTT gateway for IR, RF, BLE, MiFlora, SMS, and many sensors.
  • esp8266 Milight Hub - Alternative hub for Milight/LimitlessLED devices that uses MQTT.
  • zigbee2mqtt - Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges.

DIY Projects

Online Resources

Links to various users of Home Assistant that regularly publish Home Assistant focussed content.

Blogs

YouTube Channels

Sit back, relax, watch, and learn.

  • BRUH - Ben has great tutorials for getting started, unfortunately, inactive lately.
  • BurnsHA - Great informational and tutorial videos.
  • DrZzs - Great how-to videos and also streams live.
  • The Hook Up - Tutorials and more, also has videos on home automation in general.
  • HASSCASTS - Tips, Tricks & Tutorials, moving to mainly live streams.
  • JuanMTech - Easy to follow how-to videos, product reviews and more.
  • vCloudInfo - Publishes videos based on his home and GitHub repository.
  • digiblurDIY - Tutorials on hardware projects and Tasmota automations.
  • Intermit.Tech - Tutorials & reviews: Camera's, Home Networking, ESP8266 boards, Node-RED.
  • BeardedTinker - Tutorials & 3D printing.
  • Smart Home Junkie - How-to videos and tutorials for starters and advanced users.

Podcasts

Get inspired, while commuting, doing your morning routine, or at the gym!

Twitter

Keep up with the latest news and updates, 280 characters at a time!

  • @home_assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
  • @hass_devs - Latest news on the development of Home Assistant for contributors.
  • @balloob - Founder of the Home Assistant project.
  • @pvizeli - Core developer and creator of the Hass.io project.
  • @frenck - Creator of this Awesome list and maintainer of the Community Hass.io Add-ons project.
  • @ccostan - Blogger of all things Tech. Smart Home, #IOT & other Geeky subjects.
  • @HomeTechHacker - Guy friends call when #tech happens. Tweet 25-50x/week about #smarthome, #homenetwork, #cybersecurity, #Linux, #gadgets, and #life.
  • @hassioaddons - For all commmunity add-on news and updates.
  • @Dr_Zzs - Great how-to videos and also streams live.

Uncategorized

Valuable links, that don't fit in any of the above categories (yet!).

Alternative Home Automation Software

Home Assistant isn't the only home automation framework out there, here are some alternatives.

  • openHAB - Java-based and aims at being a universal integration platform.
  • Domoticz - A lightweight Home Automation System.
  • Gladys - Open source program which runs on your Raspberry Pi.
  • SmartThings - Commercial home automation hub by Samsung.

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists that can be found on the great and dangerous interwebs.

Contributing

This awesome list is an active open-source project and is always open to people who want to contribute to it. We have set up a separate document containing our Contribution Guidelines.

The original setup of this awesome list is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

Thank you for being involved! ๐Ÿ˜

Trademark Legal Notice

This Awesome list is not created, developed, affiliated, supported, maintained or endorsed by Home Assistant.

All product names, logos, brands, trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. All company, product, and service names used in this list are for identification purposes only.

Use of these names, logos, trademarks, and brands does not imply endorsement.

License

Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. See LICENSE for the complete license.

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