This is my Home Assistant documentation, updated on 2024-07-07.
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| Home Assistant Core | 2024.7.1 |
| Supervisor | 2024.06.2 |
| Operating System | 12.4 |
I used Home Assistant in 2018 and then migrated to Apple Home. I started using Home Assistant again in 2022. Now, it has grown significantly, with a total of 1500 entities.
| Domain | Value |
|---|---|
| automations | 20 |
| binary_sensors | 83 |
| device_trackers | 35 |
| lights | 19 |
| media_players | 13 |
| sensors | 883 |
| switches | 98 |
| switches | 98 |
| others | 349 |
| Total | 1500 |
Screenshots | Hubs | Climate | Windows/Curtains | Lights | Wall Switches | Power Plugs | Voice Control | Security | Other Sensors | Media | Other Hardware | Software Integrations | Home Assistant Add-Ons | Lovelace Dashboard | Retired | Additional Notes | Future Work
After the new sections dashboard was released, I moved my configuration from YAML to the UI. My ui-lovelace.yaml is generated by the Readme custom component. Now, I use the sections view as my primary and only dashboard.
I wouldn't recommend putting too much effort into the dashboard from now on, as I believe voice control with LLM is superior. Invest your precious time only in overview visualization.
 Wall Mount Tablet |
 Power Distribution Panel |
 Network and Server Rack |
 Zigbee Network Visualization |
 Energy Dashboard |
 Monitoring Dashboard |
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Topton i5-1340p mini pc | Generic x86-64 | I've been waiting for their next hardware that is powerful than RPi5, at least N100. Before then, I'll use this as my Home Assistant server. |
| Beelink EQ12 mini pc | Frigate Home Assistant Integration | This is my (planned) Frigate NVR server. I use Frigate as add-on for now. |
| AppleTV 4K 3rd | Thread | Apple TV 4K 3rd is my primary Thread Border Router. Home Assistant Yellow also serve as back-up border router. |
| SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus | Zigbee Home Automation | There is a irreplaceable Zigbee device so I still have this Dongle. |
| Atios KNX-Bridge | Matter (BETA) | It provides KNX and DALI devices to Matter fabric with Matter bridge. It helps me to keep my switches and lights always wired and handle simple automations even when Home Assistant is dead. |
| Amazon Fire 10 HD(2019) | Fully Kiosk Browser | My 10-inch main Kiosk in Kitchen since 2024.7.1. |
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nest Learning Thermostat | Google Nest | Smart climate control. Main Climate entity I interact with. Probably the best thermostat in market and highly recommend using it. |
| Ling-qu Smart Climate Control | Matter (BETA) | I bought this from Taobao and working great. I control this as backend of Nest thermostat cooling mode. |
| Xiaomi Dehumidifier 22L (CSJ0122DM) | Xiaomi Miot For HomeAssistant | Necessary for Korean climate. |
| Xiaomi Mi Air Pro (AC-M3-CA) | Xiaomi Miot For HomeAssistant | |
| Samsung Cube Air Purifier | smartthings_customize | This is only Samsung device that I use now, since my parents give me as a gift. |
| Vornado 630B | - | It's not smart at all, but it does what it supposed to do; Ventilation. |
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Easyroll Blind | easyroll_blind | Korean local smart Roller Blinds. It does what it supposed to do, but wish I can change these into Matter over Thread or KNX Roller Blinds. |
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nanoleaf Essentials Matter E27 | Matter (BETA) | I don't recommend this for now. It's so unstable and required to use beta firmware. Nanoleaf bulbs with beta channel firmware at least work. |
| Ltech LED Driver DALI NFC 240W 24V LM-240-24-G2D2 | Matter (BETA) | It is easy to program this driver using NFC and their app. I wish there are less power hungry version of this. |
| Auxmer LED CCT Strip | - | 38.4W/m(240 LEDs). It's very preferrable, but it's 4 times more expensive than the one below. I use this strip only for main lights. |
| COXO LED CCT Strip | - | 14W/m(608 LEDs). I think Auxmer one is better, but they differ in price. It's good for ambient lights, though. |
| Side View LED CCT Strip | - | To enlighten my dressing table. |
I disabled all the wall switches. I only use light control with the companion app or voice commands. I might use a scene controller someday.
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| None | None | None |
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Neo Coolcam Zigbee 3.0 Power Plug | Zigbee Home Automation | It's connected over both Z2M or ZHA. Super stable and can monitor power usage. Up to 16A. Very cheap, slim profile, less than $10 in Aliexpress. Recommend this if you use Zigbee. |
| Eve Energy | Matter (BETA) | Power monitoring often doesn't work after Matter 1.3. Up to 11A. I don't recommend this for now. |
I want to use local voice control with a local LLM. I'm planning to buy an Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor when it's released. Until then, I'll use OpenAI Conversation with GPT-4o. GPT-4o is the only viable option for now, especially for non-English conversations.
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wyoming Satellite | Wyoming | Generally more acceptable performance than ESP32-S3 based models. But not in aesthetics. I'm waiting for official voice hardware. I'm mainly using Rpi 02w and Jabra410 with CY95's wonderful work. |
I'm now using the Frigate add-on with a Google Coral TPU for object detection. It can handle more than 10 FHD streams, detect motion, and recognize objects.
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| TP-link Tapo C110 | Frigate Home Assistant Integration | - |
| Eve Motion | Matter (BETA) | Working fine, but prices seems unacceptable. |
| Aqara Door and Windows Sensor P2 | Matter (BETA) | Great, but it's little expensive than previous Zigbee model. |
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SiHAS Energy Monitor PMM-300 | sihas-canary | It's rock solid, but only offer value of energy in Wh. You should use template sensor to use in Home Assistant Energy board. |
| Airgradient ONE Indoor Monitor | Airgradient | Great device, cheaper yet stronger than any other devices in market. I recommend this. |
| Amazon Dash Smart Shelf | ESPHome | They are basically just scale, made with ESP8266. I measure laundry and coffee bean weight with these. |
I use Spotify for music streaming, but I'm now planning to migrate to Apple Music.
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Apple TV 4K 3rd | Apple TV | I use 3rd version as my default Media station. |
| Wiim mini | Linkplay-based speakers and sound devices | - |
| Edifier MR4 | - | MR4 must be best bang for buck active speakers that sound great. |
| Kenwood LS-NA7 | - | 3-inch passive speakers. Desperately want to replace this. |
I use Ubiquiti gear. They are definitely not enterprise-grade devices, but they do their job in my homelab. It's pretty, by the way.
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudkey+ | Unifi Network | Using Cloudkey because I wanted to remain fully local and have ability to remote access other sites. |
| Unifi Gateway Pro | Unifi Network | Bought this from Ebay at $200. Main Home Firewall |
| In-Wall HD | Unifi Network | Planning to replace this to U7-Pro |
| Flex HD | Unifi Network | Planning to replace this to U7-Pro |
| Unifi Gateway Lite | Unifi Network | This is the router of the NAS located more than 250 km away from me. I use site-to-site VPN to connect this in my Home network. |
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Xiaomi Air Fryer 5.5L | Xiaomi Miot For HomeAssistant | There are so many devices that is no Matter support. Before that, I use Xiaomi devices which support IoT features. |
| Brewista Artisan Electric Gooseneck Kettle | - | Non Smart device, but pretty. I use this when I brew my coffee. |
| ITOP 03 Coffee Grinder | - | It's just a chinese clone of Varia VS3 grinder. |
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Xiaomi Robot Vacuum Cleaner 1st Generation | Xiaomi Miot For HomeAssistant | I might use other vacuum that support Matter over Thread. |
| Brother Printer DCP-T720DW | Brother Printer | I can monitor ink left status. |
| Brother Label Printer QL-820NWB | Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) | I can see status of this printer. It shows thermal as always 100% which is nonsense. |
| Ezex Smart Gas Valve | Zigbee Home Automation | This is irreplaceable for now. There is no smart gas valve in Matter over Thread at all. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
  [Kr] Gas Station Oil Price Sensor |
Gas station oil price sensor #HA 주유소 유가 정보 센서 |
  [Kr] Map Change Service |
Default Map to NAVER Map. Map Change Service for Home Assistant #HA |
  [Kr] Seoul Bus |
Seoul Bus Sensor for Home Assistant #HA |
  [KR] 네이버 날씨 |
Naver Weather Sensor for Home Assistant #HA |
  [KR] 동행 복권 |
None |
  [KR] 전기요금 계산 센서 (가정용) |
한국전력 전기요금 계산기 (가정용) |
  Adaptive Lighting |
Adaptive Lighting custom component for Home Assistant |
  Alarmo |
Easy to use alarm system integration for Home Assistant |
  Anniversaries |
Anniversary Countdown Sensor for Home Assistant |
  Auto Backup |
🗃️ Improved Backup Service for Home Assistant that can Automatically Remove Backups and Supports Generational Backup Schemes. |
  Better Thermostat |
This custom component for Home Assistant will add crucial features to your climate-controlling TRV (Thermostatic Radiator Valves) to save you the work of creating automations to make it smart. It combines a room-temperature sensor, window/door sensors, weather forecasts, or an ambient temperature probe to decide when it should call for heat and automatically calibrate your TRVs to fix the imprecise measurements taken in the radiator's vicinity. |
  Citywaste Korea |
Home Assistant CityWaste Korea Component (음식물 쓰레기 배출량 조회) |
  Config Editor |
Home Assistant Configuration Editor Helper |
  Custom Component For Sihas Wi Fi Device |
HA custom component for SiHAS Wi-Fi devices. |
  Danawa Shopping |
다나와 쇼핑검색 |
  Discord Game |
Home Assistant custom component to get online and game status of Discord users |
  Easyroll Blind |
HA 용 이지롤 블라인드 통합구성요소 |
  Elevenlabs Tts |
Custom TTS Integration using ElevenLabs API |
  Extended Openai Conversation |
Home Assistant custom component of conversation agent. It uses OpenAI to control your devices. |
  Fallback Conversation |
HomeAssistant Assist Fallback Conversation Agent |
  Fontawesome |
🔹 Use icons from fontawesome in home-assistant |
  Fortune |
Horoscope, Zodiac |
  Frigate |
Frigate integration for Home Assistant |
  Generate Readme |
Use Jinja and data from Home Assistant to generate your README.md file |
  Grocy Custom Component |
Custom Grocy integration for Home Assistant |
  Ha Whisper Api Stt |
Home Assistant Whisper API SST integration |
  HACS |
HACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of all your custom needs. |
  Hass Hue Icons Integration |
Additional vector icons for home assistant to model Philips Hue bulbs and fixtures. |
  Ical Sensor |
an iCal Sensor for Home Assistant |
  Icloud3 V3 Idevice Tracker |
iCloud3 v3 - iCloud3 is an advanced iDevice tracker that uses Apple iCloud account and HA Companion App data for presence detection and location based automations. |
  Ics Calendar (Icalendar) |
Provides an ICS (icalendar) platform for the Home Assistant calendar |
  Jellyfin |
Jellyfin integration for Home Assistant |
  Jwt Cookie |
Create JWT Cookies every time you log in to your HomeAssistant instance |
  Lastfm Scrobbler |
An Home Assistant integration scrobble to last.fm |
  Life360 |
A Home Assistant integration for Life360. |
  Linkplay Based Speakers And Devices |
LinkPlay based media devices integration for Home Assistant. Supports multiroom, Media Browser, and snapshot and restore functionality for TTS. Compatible with Mini Media Player card. |
  Ltss |
Long time state storage (LTSS) custom component for Home Assistant using Timescale DB |
  Microsoft 365 Calendar |
Microsoft 365 Calendar Integration for Home Assistant |
  Microsoft 365 Mail |
Microsoft 365 Mail Integration for Home Assistant |
  Microsoft 365 To Do |
Microsoft 365 To Do Integration for Home Assistant |
  Multiscrape |
Home Assistant custom component for scraping (html, xml or json) multiple values (from a single HTTP request) with a separate sensor/attribute for each value. Support for (login) form-submit functionality. |
  Music Assistant |
Turn your Home Assistant instance into a jukebox, hassle free streaming of your favorite media to Home Assistant media players. |
  Naver Finance |
네이버 금융 |
  Openai Tts Speech Service |
OpenAI TTS custom component for HA |
  Overseerr |
Home Assistant Custom component for Overseerr |
  Plex Recently Added |
|
  Powercalc |
Custom component to calculate estimated power consumption of lights and other appliances |
  Remote Home Assistant |
Links multiple home-assistant instances together |
  Scheduler Component |
Custom component for HA that enables the creation of scheduler entities |
  Shopping List With Grocy |
A Shopping list integration with Grocy for Home Assistant |
  Simpleicons |
Use Simple Icons in Home Assistant |
  Smartthings Customize |
None |
  Spotcast |
Home assistant custom component to start Spotify playback on an idle chromecast device as well as control spotify connect devices |
  Watchman |
Home Assistant custom integration to keep track of missing entities and services in your config files |
  Xiaomi Miot Auto |
Automatic integrate all Xiaomi devices to HomeAssistant via miot-spec, support Wi-Fi, BLE, ZigBee devices. 小米米家智能家居设备接入Hass集成 |
  웨더뉴스 Weathernews |
Home Assistant custom component/integration for Weathernews.com |
I use Home Assistant as my main home server, so there are lots of add-ons. I could run Home Assistant as a VM on a dedicated VM server, but I prefer to keep things simple.
Enterprise smart home syndrome
| Name | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AdGuard Home | 5.1.1 | |
| Advanced SSH & Web Terminal | 18.0.0 | |
| Authelia | 0.1.1 | |
| Brother-QL-Web | 0.2.1b | |
| Browserless Chromium | 2.15.0 | |
| Caddy 2 | 1.5.8 | |
| caddybuilder | v0.4.2 | |
| chrony | 3.0.1 | |
| ESPHome | 2024.6.6 | |
| File editor | 5.8.0 | |
| FreshRSS | 0.2.4 | |
| Frigate (Full Access) | 0.13.2 | |
| Fusion | 2024.7.0 | |
| Glances | 0.21.1 | |
| Grocy | 0.21.0 | |
| Home Assistant Git Exporter | 1.17.0 | |
| Home Assistant Google Drive Backup | 0.112.1 | |
| Korea Radio for HA | 1.0.4 | |
| MariaDB | 2.7.1 | |
| Matter Server | 6.2.1 | |
| Matterbridge | 1.6.0-75 | |
| Mosquitto broker | 6.4.1 | |
| Music Assistant | 2.0.7 | |
| OpenThread Border Router | 2.9.0 | |
| pgAdmin4 | 3.0.1 | |
| Samba share | 12.3.1 | |
| Studio Code Server | 5.15.0 | |
| TimescaleDB | 4.0.1 | |
| Whisper | 2.1.2 |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Alarmo Card | Home Assistant card for controlling the Alarmo component |
| Apexcharts Card | 📈 A Lovelace card to display advanced graphs and charts based on ApexChartsJS for Home Assistant |
| Atomic Calendar Revive | An advanced calendar card for Home Assistant Lovelace. |
| Auto Entities | 🔹Automatically populate the entities-list of lovelace cards |
| Bar Card | Customizable Animated Bar card for Home Assistant Lovelace |
| Battery State Card / Entity Row | Battery state card for Home Assistant |
| Bha Icon Pack | Additional icons for Home Assistant to accompany the MDI icons |
| Bubble Card | Bubble Card is a minimalist card collection for Home Assistant with a nice pop-up touch. |
| Button Card | ❇️ Lovelace button-card for home assistant |
| Card Mod | 🔹 Add CSS styles to (almost) any lovelace card |
| Card Tools | 🔹A collection of tools for other lovelace plugins to use |
| Collapsable Cards | A custom Lovelace card that hides other cards behind a dropdown toggle |
| Config Editor Card | Home Assistant Configuration Files Editor for Lovelace |
| Custom Brand Icons | Custom brand icons for Home Assistant |
| Custom Icons | Several custom made and legacy icons, and icons collected all over the internet in 1 set, UI selectable. |
| Custom Icons Pack | Additional icons for use in Home Assistant UI |
| Dark Thermostat | 🌡 Thermostat card with a round and black feel to it |
| Energy Flow Card Plus | An upgraded Energy Distribution Card for Home Assistant, with added features like Individual Devices and refined UI enhancements, while maintaining the Energy Dashboard's original design. |
| Firemote Card | Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Fire streaming stick, Chromecast, NVIDIA Shield, onn., Roku, Xiaomi Mi, and Android TV remote control card for Home Assistant |
| Frigate Card | A Lovelace card for Frigate in Home Assistant |
| Gallery Card 2024 | A custom card for Home Assistant that will display images and/or videos from a folder in the style of a gallery. |
| Ha Floorplan 🖌🎨 Your Imagination Just Become The New Limit | Bring new life to Home Assistant. By mapping entities to a SVG-object, you're able to control devices, show states, calling services - and much more. Add custom styling on top, to visualize whatever you can think of. Your imagination just became the new limit. |
| Hass Dual Color Icons | Dual colors vector icons for Home Assistant. These icons are dual color counter fit of other home assistant icons set like Material Design Icons (MDI) or hass-hue-icons. |
| Hass Hue Icons | Additional vector icons for home assistant to model Philips Hue bulbs and fixtures. |
| Honeycomb Menu | Honeycomb menu is a Home Assistant module (not a card) that can be applied to any lovelace card. When activated by the defined action on said card, the module will display a 'rounded' list of honeycomb buttons with an optional XY pad to make interfacing with lovelace more fluent |
| Hui Element | 🔹 Use built-in elements in the wrong place |
| Kiosk Mode | 🙈 Hides the Home Assistant header and/or sidebar |
| Knx User Forum Icon Set | Icon set from KNX User Forum for Home Assistant. The icon set contains more than 900 icons for home automation. |
| Layout Card | 🔹 Get more control over the placement of lovelace cards. |
| List Card | 📰 Display sensor list data in a table |
| Logbook Card | Logbook card for Home Assistant UI Lovelace |
| Lovelace Card Templater | Custom Lovelace card which allows Jinja2 templates to be applied to other cards |
| Lovelace Grocy Chores Card | A card to track chores and tasks in Grocy. |
| Lovelace Home Feed Card | A custom Lovelace card for displaying a combination of persistent notifications, calendar events, and entities in the style of a feed. |
| Lovelace Text Input Row | A custom Lovelace text input row for use in entities cards |
| Maxi Media Player | Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups. |
| Mini Graph Card | Minimalistic graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI |
| Mini Media Player | Minimalistic media card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI |
| Multiple Entity Row | Show multiple entity states and attributes on entity rows in Home Assistant's Lovelace UI |
| Mushroom | Build a beautiful Home Assistant dashboard easily |
| Power Flow Card Plus | A power distribution card inspired by the official Energy Distribution card for Home Assistant |
| Scheduler Card | HA Lovelace card for control of scheduler entities |
| Slider Button Card | A button card with integrated slider |
| Slider Entity Row | 🔹 Add sliders to entity cards |
| Stack In Card | 🛠 group multiple cards into one card without the borders |
| State Switch | 🔹Dynamically replace lovelace cards depending on occasion |
| Tabbed Card | a custom card for home assistant that utilizes tabs to segregate individual cards. |
| Template Entity Row | 🔹 Display whatever you want in an entities card row. |
| Upcoming Media Card | 📺 A card to display upcoming episodes and movies from services like: Plex, Kodi, Radarr, Sonarr, and Trakt. |
| Uptime Card | Minimalistic uptime card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI |
| Vacuum Card | Vacuum cleaner card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI |
| Vertical Stack In Card | 📐 Home Assistant Card: Group multiple cards into a single sleek card. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Ios Themes Dark Mode And Light Mode | ❤️📱🏠🤖 Themes inspired by iOS Dark ⬛️ and Light ◻️ Mode for Lovelace Home Assistant with different backgrounds |
| Material Rounded Theme Based On Material You By Google On Android | A Material You and Google Home app influenced theme for Home Assistant |
| Metrology Metro + Fluent + Windows Themes By Mmak.Es | 🎨 Give your Home Assistant a modern and clean facelift. 🟥🟧🟩🟦🟪 24 Variations with 2 Styles + 6 Colors (Magenta Red / Orange / Green / Blue / Purple) + 🌞 Light and 🌚 Dark modes included. Based on Metro and Fluent UI Design Systems from Microsoft Windows. |
Retired Hardware
| Device | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nanoleaf Essentials Matter Lightstrip | Matter (BETA) | Which is weird, I felt this device is much preferrable than bulb. It was more stable, and has less connectivity issue. But I have converted to DALI CCT, so it's now retired. |
| Amazon Fire 10 HD(2017) | Fully Kiosk Browser | My previous 10-inch main Kiosk in Kitchen for 2 years. Suddenly power goes down and never came back. RIP. |
| Sonos Era 100 | Sonos | I once used Sonos for my multi-room-music player, but end up selling these to flee market. But they are good devices. |
| Sonos Symfonisk Lamp gen 2 | Sonos | - |
| Sonos Symfonisk gen 1 | Sonos | - |
| Onju Voice | ESPHome | It's beautiful device. I just can't bear microwakeword false positive. |
| Navien NR-40D | navien_boiler | Smart thermostat from manufactorer. It sucks for Home Assistant. Never buy this. |
| Lenovo Thinksmart View | [Fully Kiosk Browser] | Is this the perfect standalone tablet for HA? No, I don't think so. Display is so small, sound is unavailable. |
Retired Software
| Software | HomeAssistant | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| browser_mod 2 | browser_mod 2 | I'm now using Bubble Card for pop-up features. |
| InfluxDB | InfluxDB | I switched to TimescaleDB and LTSS custom components |
I keep some detailed documentation in docs/
- Toilet Auto flush
- More Contact Sensors(5; Washer, Dryer, Bathroom, Refrigerator)
- More Air Quality Sensors(Airgradient)
- Home Assistant Official Hardware, for Open Home.
- Ubiquiti PoE switch
Generated by the custom readme integration
Huge Thanks to Joris Roovers, this work is heavily influenced by his work
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