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<h1 id="awesome-home-assistant-awesome">Awesome Home Assistant <a
href="https://awesome.re"><img src="https://awesome.re/badge-flat2.svg"
alt="Awesome" /></a></h1>
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<p><a href="https://awesome-ha.com">
<img width="400" src="https://www.awesome-ha.com/images/awesome-home-assistant.svg" alt="Awesome Home Assistant">
</a> <br>
<a href="https://awesome-ha.com"><strong>https://awesome-ha.com</strong></a></p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>If you want to get an impression on the look and feel, you should
check out the <a href="https://demo.home-assistant.io">Home Assistant
online demo</a>.</p>
<p>Awesome Home Assistant is a curated list of awesome <a
href="https://www.home-assistant.io">Home Assistant</a> resources.
Additional software, tutorials, custom integration, add-ons, custom
dashboard cards &amp; plugins, cookbooks, example setups, and much
more.</p>
<p>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 <a
href="https://github.com/frenck/awesome-home-assistant/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md">guide</a>
or raise an <a
href="https://github.com/frenck/awesome-home-assistant/issues/new/choose">issue</a>
to suggest additions, updates or removals.</p>
<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#how-to-use">How to use</a></li>
<li><a href="#installing">Installing</a></li>
<li><a href="#in-case-you-need-help">In case you need help</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#official-communities">Official Communities</a></li>
<li><a href="#other-communities">Other Communities</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#public-configurations">Public Configurations</a></li>
<li><a href="#add-ons">Add-ons</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#official-add-ons">Official Add-ons</a></li>
<li><a href="#third-party-add-ons">Third Party Add-ons</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#dashboards">Dashboards</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#icon-packs">Icon packs</a></li>
<li><a href="#themes">Themes</a></li>
<li><a href="#custom-cards">Custom Cards</a></li>
<li><a href="#alternative-dashboards">Alternative Dashboards</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#custom-integrations">Custom Integrations</a></li>
<li><a href="#diy">DIY</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#diy-gateways">DIY Gateways</a></li>
<li><a href="#diy-projects">DIY Projects</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#online-resources">Online Resources</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#blogs">Blogs</a></li>
<li><a href="#youtube-channels">YouTube Channels</a></li>
<li><a href="#podcasts">Podcasts</a></li>
<li><a href="#twitter">Twitter</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#uncategorized">Uncategorized</a></li>
<li><a href="#alternative-home-automation-software">Alternative Home
Automation Software</a></li>
<li><a href="#other-awesome-lists">Other Awesome Lists</a></li>
<li><a href="#trademark-legal-notice">Trademark Legal Notice</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="how-to-use">How to use</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You can navigate through the list by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Simply press <kbd>command/ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>F</kbd> to search for a
keyword</li>
<li>Go through our <a href="#contents"><em>Contents list</em></a></li>
<li>Alternatively, use the search on our website: <a
href="https://www.awesome-ha.com"
class="uri">https://www.awesome-ha.com</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="installing">Installing</h2>
<p>Home Assistant has several installation methods; each has advantages
and disadvantages. Many people have different opinions and personal
favorites. Important to know that there is no wrong or right here; each
technique installs the SAME Home Assistant.</p>
<p>Home Assistant recommends the Home Assistant OS installation
method.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/">Home Assistant
Installation</a> - The official installation guides.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/#compare-installation-methods">Compare
Installation Methods</a> - The available installation methods
compared.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="in-case-you-need-help">In case you need help</h2>
<p><em>There are various ways to get in touch with the Home Assistant
community. It doesnt matter if you have a question, need help, want to
request a feature, or just say Hi.</em></p>
<h3 id="official-communities">Official Communities</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://discordapp.com/invite/c5DvZ4e">Home Assistant
Discord</a> - Join the chat, most of us are there.</li>
<li><a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/?u=frenck">Home
Assistant Community</a> - The discussion forum, also used for feature
requests.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/">Home Assistant
Subreddit</a> - If you are into Reddit, subscribe.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/HomeAssistant/">Home
Assistant Facebook Group</a> - Facebook group for enthusiasts.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="other-communities">Other Communities</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1969622823351838/">Dr. ZZs</a> -
Facebook group by Dr. Zzs.</li>
<li><a href="https://discord.me/hassioaddons">Home Assistant Community
Add-ons Discord</a> - Get support on the Home Assistant Community
Add-ons.</li>
<li><a href="https://discord.gg/KhAMKrd">ESPHome Discord</a> - Get
support for your DIY ESPHome project.</li>
<li>🇳🇱 <a href="https://discord.gg/Ee5X7T7">Dutch Domotics Discord</a> -
Dutch Discord server with home automation enthusiasts.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="public-configurations">Public Configurations</h2>
<p><em>Some people store their full Home Assistant configuration on
GitHub. They are an awesome source for learning and a great source of
inspiration.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/CCOSTAN/Home-AssistantConfig#logo">Carlo
Costanzo</a> - Probably the most documented configuration out
there.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/DubhAd/Home-AssistantConfig">DubhAd</a>
- Also known as Tinkerer shares his configuration files.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/geekofweek/homeassistant">geekofweek</a>
- Has over 300+ automations.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/skalavala/mysmarthome">Mahasri
Kalavala</a> - Impressive setup, with lots of different hardware working
together.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/arsaboo/homeassistant-config">Alok
Saboo</a> - Also known as arsaboo. Regularly updated.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bachya/smart-home">Aaron Bach</a> - Also
known as bachya. Regularly updated and includes numerous Dockerized
services.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/frenck/home-assistant-config">Franck
Nijhof</a> - Hass.io based, very different configuration structure
compared to others.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/Student-homeassistant-config">Klaas
Schoute</a> - Hass.io based, Intel NUC, Ubuntu Server, Docker and
regularly updated.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/SeLLeRoNe/HA-Config">Andrea Iannucci</a>
- Also known as SeLLeRoNe. Regularly updated.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="add-ons">Add-ons</h2>
<p><em>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.</em></p>
<h3 id="official-add-ons">Official Add-ons</h3>
<p><em>Created and maintained by the Home Assistant team.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/duckdns/DOCS.md">DuckDNS</a>
- Updates your Duck DNS IP address and generate SSL using Lets
Encrypt.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/configurator/DOCS.md">File
editor</a> - Browser-based configuration file editor.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/mosquitto/DOCS.md">Mosquitto</a>
- Fast and reliable MQTT broker.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/ssh/DOCS.md">Terminal
&amp; SSH</a> - Allows logging in remotely to using a web terminal or
SSH client.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/samba/DOCS.md">Samba</a>
- Access your configuration files using Windows network shares.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/nginx_proxy/DOCS.md">NGINX
SSL proxy</a> - Reverse proxy with SSL termination.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/deconz/DOCS.md">deCONZ</a>
- Control a ZigBee network using ConBee or RaspBee hardware by Dresden
Elektronik.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/tellstick/DOCS.md">TellStick</a>
- Run a TellStick and TellStick Duo service.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/ada/DOCS.md">Ada</a>
- Ada is voice assistant powered by Almond which is open and
privacy-preserving.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/almond/DOCS.md">Almond</a>
- The Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/homematic/DOCS.md">HomeMatic</a>
- HomeMatic central based on OCCU.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/letsencrypt/DOCS.md">Lets
Encrypt</a> - Get a free SSL certificate from Lets Encrypt; an open and
automated certificate authority (CA).</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/blob/master/mariadb/DOCS.md">MariaDB</a>
- An open source relational database (fork of MySQL).</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="third-party-add-ons">Third Party Add-ons</h3>
<p><em>Anyone can create an add-on, the following are created by the
community.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-ssh">SSH &amp; Web
Terminal</a> - SSH and Web-based terminal with tons of pre-loaded useful
tools.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-unifi">UniFi
Controller</a> - The UniFi Controller allows you to manage your UniFi
network using a web browser.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-node-red">Node-RED</a> -
Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-plex">Plex Media
Server</a> - Your recorded media beautifully organized and ready to
stream.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-ide">IDE</a> -
Advanced web-based IDE, based on Cloud9 IDE.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/danimtb/dasshio">Dasshio</a> - Easily
use your Amazon Dash Buttons.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-influxdb">InfluxDB</a> -
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-grafana">Grafana</a>
- Open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tor">Tor</a> -
Protect your privacy and access your instance via Tor.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-spotify-connect">Spotify
Connect</a> - Spotify Connect client for playing music on your Home
Assistant device.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/danielwelch/hassio-zigbee2mqtt">zigbee2mqtt</a>
- Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee
bridges.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-appdaemon">AppDaemon</a> -
Python Apps and HADashboard.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tasmoadmin">TasmoAdmin</a>
- Centrally manage all your Sonoff-Tasmota devices.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-aircast">Aircast</a>
- AirPlay capabilities for your Chromecast players.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-airsonos">AirSonos</a> -
AirPlay capabilities for your Sonos players.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/danielwelch/hassio-dropbox-sync">Dropbox
Sync</a> - Upload your backup snapshots to Dropbox.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-log-viewer">Log
Viewer</a> - Browser-based live log viewing utility.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tautulli">Tautulli</a> -
Monitor and get statistics from your Plex server.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-motioneye">motionEye</a> -
Simple, elegant and feature-rich CCTV/NVR for your cameras.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-jupyterlab">JupyterLab</a>
- Create documents containing live code, equations, visualizations, and
explanatory text.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/samccauley/addon-hassiogooglebackup">Backup to
Google Drive</a> - Backup snapshots to Google Drive.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-glances">Glances</a>
- A cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-matrix">Matrix</a> -
A secure and decentralized communication platform.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-adguard-home">AdGuard
Home</a> - A network-wide ad-and-tracker blocking DNS server with
parental control.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-traccar">Traccar</a>
- Traccar is modern GPS Tracking Platform.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-home-panel">Home
Panel</a> - A touch-compatible web frontend for controlling the
home.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup">Hass.io
Google Drive Backup</a> - A complete and easy to configure solution for
backing up your snapshots to Google Drive.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-grocy">Grocy</a> -
ERP beyond your fridge! A groceries &amp; household management solution
for your home.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/inverse/hassio-addon-emoncms">EmonCMS</a> - A
powerful open-source web app for processing, logging, and visualizing
energy, temperature, and other environmental data.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/crowdsecurity/home-assistant-addons">CrowdSec</a>
- A next-gen collaborative IPS/IDS to protect you from intrusion.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="dashboards">Dashboards</h2>
<p><em>The Home Assistant frontend is already pretty, but you can
customize it to fit your needs or taste better.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/">Dashboards
Documentation</a> - The official documentation.</li>
<li>📺 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObfRzMIEJPgx">Getting
started with Lovelace UI</a> - Great introduction to Lovelace UI by
DrZzs.</li>
<li><a href="https://sharethelove.io">Share the Love</a> - Custom card
demos and configuration examples for Lovelace.</li>
<li>📺 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5xMtONydEo">How to set
up Lovelace</a> - Excellent step by step video for beginners by
JuanMTech.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="icon-packs">Icon packs</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thomasloven/hass-fontawesome">Font
Awesome Icons</a> - Use the free icons from Font Awesome in your
frontend.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/arallsopp/hass-hue-icons">Hass Hue
Icons</a> - Additional Philips Hue bulbs and fixtures icons.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/vigonotion/hass-simpleicons">simpleicons</a> -
Use the free icons from the simpleicons set.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="themes">Themes</h3>
<p><em>It is all about the looks, apply some style.</em></p>
<ul>
<li>📺 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xpd4zB2eRM">Themes
Tutorial</a> - Quick tutorial/example on how to configure themes.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/midnight-theme/28598?u=frenck">Midnight</a>
- A dark theme by Marcel Hoffs.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/dark-cyan-theme/28594?u=frenck">Dark
Cyan</a> - A dark theme with cyan accents by Ryoen Deprouw.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/grey-night-theme/30848?u=frenck">Grey
Night</a> - A dark theme with grey accents by ksya.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/dark-red-theme/28592?u=frenck">Dark
Red</a> - A dark theme with red accents by Ryoen Deprouw.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/halloween-theme/30872?u=frenck">Halloween</a>
- Pumpkins colored by Mahasri Kalavala.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/black-and-green-theme/28602?u=frenck">Black
and Green</a> - A dark theme with pale green accents by
GreenTurtwig.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/vintage-theme/42806?u=frenck">Vintage</a>
- Give your frontend a vintage look with this theme by Anup
Surendran.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/share-your-themes/22018/95?u=frenck">Carbon
Green</a> - Light carbon theme with green accents by Reua.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/maartenpaauw/home-assistant-community-themes/">Many
Themes, One Repo</a> - 13 Themes in a convenient ZIP file.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/seangreen2/slate_theme">Slate</a> - A
dark theme close to the vanila looks from seangreen2.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbbenji/synthwave-hass">Synthwave</a> -
A theme influenced by the cover artwork of modern Synthwave bands.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/liri/lovelace-themes">Google Home
Theme</a> - Two themes (light and dark) matching the design of Google
Home Hub.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="custom-cards">Custom Cards</h3>
<p><em>The Home Assistant Dashboards allows people to build custom cards
on top of it, which you can easily add to your instance.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-auto-entities">Auto-Entities
Card</a> - Dynamically adds entities: 🔮 Magic.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/custom-cards/canvas-gauge-card">Canvas
Gauge Card</a> - Use awesome gauges from canvas-gauges.com.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/custom-cards/bignumber-card">Big Number
Card</a> - Display big numbers for sensors, including severity level as
background.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bramkragten/weather-card">Animated
Weather Card</a> - Nice looking card showing the weather, with subtle
animations.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/ciotlosm/lovelace-thermostat-dark-card">Thermostat
Card</a> - Thermostat control card that looks like a Nest
Thermostat.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player">Mini Media
Player</a> - A minimalistic media player card.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kalkih/mini-graph-card">Mini Graph
Card</a> - A minimalistic sensor graph card.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kuuji/button-card">Button card</a> -
Button card for your entities.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-slider-entity-row">Slider
Entity Row</a> - Add a slider to adjust, e.g., the brightness of lights
in lovelace entity cards.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/gurbyz/power-wheel-card">Power Wheel
Card</a> - An intuitive way to represent the power that your home is
consuming or producing.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/nervetattoo/simple-thermostat">Simple
Thermostat</a> - A simpler and more flexible thermostat card.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-card-mod">Card
Modder</a> - Style your Lovelace cards.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Gluwc/bar-card">Bar Card</a> -
Customizable animated bar card.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kalkih/forked-daapd-card">forked-daapd
Card</a> - Control a forked daapd instance.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Rocka84/dual-gauge-card">Dual Gauge
Card</a> - Shows two gauges in one.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/totaldebug/atomic-calendar-revive">Atomic
Calendar Revive</a> - Calendar card with advanced settings.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/benct/lovelace-xiaomi-vacuum-card">Xiaomi
Vacuum Card</a> - Detailed card for Xiaomi vacuum cleaners (and
others).</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kalkih/simple-weather-card">Simple
Weather Card</a> - A minimalistic weather card, inspired by Google
Material Design.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/postlund/home-card">Home Card</a> - A
quick glance of the state of your home.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/nervetattoo/banner-card">Banner Card</a>
- A fluffy linkable banner with interactive glances to spice up your
home dashboards.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/custom-cards/spotify-card">Spotify
Card</a> - List and select from current available devices and users top
playlists on Spotify.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/cbulock/lovelace-battery-entity">Battery
Entity</a> - Displaying battery levels for battery entities.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/benct/lovelace-multiple-entity-row">Multiple
Entity Row</a> - Show multiple entity states or attributes on entity
rows.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/Home-Assistant-Lovelace-Xiaomi-Vacuum-Map-card">Vacuum
Map Card</a> - This card provides a user-friendly way to fully control
Xiaomi (Roborock/Viomi/Dreame/Roidmi) and Neato (+ possibly other)
vacuums.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/gadgetchnnel/lovelace-home-feed-card">Home Feed
Card</a> - Display a combination of persistent notifications, calendar
events, and entities in the style of a feed.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/custom-cards/config-template-card">Config
Template Card</a> - Allow using templates in Lovelace.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bokub/rgb-light-card">RGB Light Card</a>
- Colorful buttons to control your RGB Lights.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/madmicio/LG-WebOS-Remote-Control">LG
WebOS Remote Control</a> - Remote Control for LG TV WebOS.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/iantrich/restriction-card">Restriction
Card</a> - A card to provide restrictions on Lovelace cards defined
within.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/denysdovhan/vacuum-card">Vacuum Card</a>
- A card to card for controlling a vacuum cleaner robot.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/denysdovhan/purifier-card">Purifier
Card</a> - A card for controlling air purifiers.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/ironsheep/lovelace-rpi-monitor-card">Raspberry
Pi Status Card</a> - Show status of your Raspberry Pis.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="alternative-dashboards">Alternative Dashboards</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/resoai/TileBoard">TileBoard</a> - A
simple yet highly configurable Dashboard.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/dwainscheeren/dwains-lovelace-dashboard">Dwains
Dashboard</a> - An fully auto-generating dashboard for desktop, tablet
and mobile.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="custom-integrations">Custom Integrations</h2>
<p><em>Additional integrations for Home Assistant, that were created by
the community.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/upsert/lutron-caseta-pro">Lutron Caseta
Pro</a> - Integrates Lutron Caseta Smart Bridge PRO / RA2 Select.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/smartHomeHub/SmartIR">SmartIR</a> -
Integrates devices using Broadlink IR.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dolezsa/Xiaomi_Hygrothermo">Xiaomi
Hygrothermo</a> - Sensor platform for Xiaomi Mijia BT Hygrothermo
temperature and humidity sensor.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet">Volkswagen
Carnet</a> - Integrates Volkswagen Carnet (requires valid Carnet
subscription).</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/custom-components/sensor.untapped">Untappd</a>
- Connects with your Untappd account.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/legrego/homeassistant-elasticsearch">Elasticsearch</a>
- Publishes events to Elasticsearch.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/keatontaylor/alexa_media_player">Alexa
Media Player</a> - Allow control of Amazon Alexa devices.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/gcobb321/icloud3">iCloud3</a> - Improved
version of the iCloud device tracker component with a lot of
capabilities.</li>
<li><a href="https://hacs.xyz/">HACS</a> - This is a manager for your
custom integration (components) and plugin (lovelace elements)
needs.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/claytonjn/hass-circadian_lighting">Circadian
Lighting</a> - Circadian Lighting slowly synchronizes your color
changing lights with the regular naturally occuring color temperature of
the sky throughout the day.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/twrecked/hass-aarlo">HASS Aarlo</a> -
Asynchronous Arlo integration. Similar to the Arlo web site; monitors
events and states for all base stations, cameras and doorbells.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/Home-Assistant-custom-components-Xiaomi-Cloud-Map-Extractor">Xiaomi
Cloud Map Extractor</a> - Presents a live view of a map for Xiaomi
(Roborock/Viomi/Roidmi/Dreame) vacuums without a need for rooting.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC">WebRTC Camera</a> - View
RTSP streams from IP Cameras in real-time through WebRTC or MSE with
Pan/Zoom controls.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/AlexxIT/SonoffLAN">Sonoff LAN</a> -
Control Sonoff devices with eWeLink (original) firmware over LAN and/or
Cloud.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/fondberg/spotcast">Spotcast</a> - Start
Spotify playback on an idle Chromecast device as well as control Spotify
connect devices.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dummylabs/thewatchman">The Watchman</a>
- Keep track of missing entities and services in your config files.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="diy">DIY</h2>
<p><em>Do It Yourself; rather than buying home automation hardware or
solutions, you could also build them yourself!</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://esphome.io/">ESPHome</a> - Program ESP8266 boards
and ESP32 boards using YAML.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/maddox/magic-cards">Magic Cards</a> -
RFID scannable cards that you can program to do anything.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota">Tasmota</a> - Firmware
for ESP8266 boards and devices.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="diy-gateways">DIY Gateways</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/1technophile/OpenMQTTGateway">OpenMQTTGateway</a>
- A flexible MQTT gateway for IR, RF, BLE, MiFlora, SMS, and many
sensors.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub">esp8266
Milight Hub</a> - Alternative hub for Milight/LimitlessLED devices that
uses MQTT.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt">zigbee2mqtt</a> -
Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="diy-projects">DIY Projects</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ha-switchplate-diy-lcd-touchscreen-wall-switch-replacement/25464?u=frenck">HA
SwitchPlate</a> - LCD Touchscreen wall switch replacement.</li>
<li>📺 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpjfVc-9IrQ">DIY
Multisensor</a> - $15, Temperature, Humidity, Light, Motion, and RGB
LED, without soldering.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-inexpensive-10-us-wifi-rgb-bulb-that-works-with-home-assistant/14735?u=frenck">$10
WiFi RGB Bulb</a> - In inexpensive RGB bulb that works on WiFi.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/433mhz-infrared-ir-to-and-from-mqtt-on-esp8266/6779?u=frenck">433mhz/IR
Bidirectional Gateway</a> - Bidirectional with IR and 433mhz using
ESP8266 and MQTT.</li>
<li><a
href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/esp8266-window-blinds-mqtt/14863?u=frenck">esp8266MQTTBlinds</a>
- Automate your window blinds using an ESP8266, a servo and MQTT.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.hackster.io/home-assistant?f=1#_=_">Home
Assistants Hackster.io</a> - A Hackster channel with multiple DIY
projects.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/bruhautomation/ESP-MQTT-JSON-Digital-LEDs">ESP
MQTT Digital LEDs</a> - WS2811 LED Stripe for the JSON Light Component
from BRUH.</li>
<li><a
href="https://selfhostedhome.com/diy-bed-presence-detection-home-assistant/">Bed
Presence Detection</a> - ESP8266 based Bed Presence Detection.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/ha_nfc_scanner">NFC
Scanner</a> - Build an NFC tag/card scanner with an ESP8266, PN532 and
MQTT.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.dopebuild.com/i-am-sorry-dave-i-am-unable-to-do-that/">ESP32-Cam
Facebox</a> - Tie a ESP32-CAM, HA, and Facebox together for a cheap
Facial Recog / Home monitoring solution.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/segalion/raspipool">RaspiPool</a> - A
cost-effective, easy-to-build, easy-to-use “Swimming-Pool Automation
System”.</li>
<li><a href="https://quinled.info/">QuinLED</a> - DIY Wi-Fi LED dimmers
and controllers using ESP32 boards.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="online-resources">Online Resources</h2>
<p><em>Links to various users of Home Assistant that regularly publish
Home Assistant focussed content.</em></p>
<h3 id="blogs">Blogs</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://diyfuturism.com/">DIY Futurism</a> - Brad posts
articles with great instructions for new users.</li>
<li><a href="https://philhawthorne.com/homeautomation">Phil
Hawthorne</a> - Co-host of the Home Assistant Podcast.</li>
<li><a href="https://smarthomehobby.com/">Smart Home Hobby</a> -
Features budget friendly guides and information.</li>
<li><a href="https://selfhostedhome.com/">Self Hosted Home</a> -
Articles on DIY home automation projects and self hosted services.</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.ceard.tech/">Tinkering with Home
Automation</a> - Tinkerers blog and guides.</li>
<li><a href="https://HomeTechHacker.com">HomeTechHacker</a> - DIY
Smarthome guides, reviews, and advice.</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.quindorian.org">Intermittent Technology</a> -
Quindors personal blog for pasting random (mostly technology related)
things.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="youtube-channels">YouTube Channels</h3>
<p><em>Sit back, relax, watch, and learn.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbX3YkedQunLt7EQAdVxh7w">Home
Assistant</a> - Official YouTube Channel where new launches and live
streams are held.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLecVrux63S6aYiErxdiy4w">BRUH</a>
- Ben has great tutorials for getting started, unfortunately, inactive
lately.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSKQutOXuNLvFetrKuwudpg">BurnsHA</a>
- Great informational and tutorial videos.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7G4tLa4Kt6A9e3hJ-HO8ng">DrZzs</a>
- Great how-to videos and also streams live.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gyzKcHbYfqoXA5xbyGXtQ">The Hook
Up</a> - Tutorials and more, also has videos on home automation in
general.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGOCeqMJnLvr-5C-ypUw7IQ">HASSCASTS</a>
- Tips, Tricks &amp; Tutorials, moving to mainly live streams.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/juanmtech">JuanMTech</a> - Easy to
follow how-to videos, product reviews and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/vCloudInfo">vCloudInfo</a> -
Publishes videos based on his home and GitHub repository.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5ZdPKE2ckcBhljTc2R_qNA">digiblurDIY</a>
- Tutorials on hardware projects and Tasmota automations.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv7UOhZ2XuPwm9SN5oJsCjA">Intermit.Tech</a>
- Tutorials &amp; reviews: Cameras, Home Networking, ESP8266 boards,
Node-RED.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuqokNoK8ZFNQdXxvlE129g">BeardedTinker</a>
- Tutorials &amp; 3D printing.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtQ4AOSmCFUuvixddYiSxw/">Smart
Home Junkie</a> - How-to videos and tutorials for starters and advanced
users.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/EverythingSmartHome">Everything
Smart Home</a> - Focuses on Smart Home, Home Automation, general tech
reviews, guides, and step-by-step DIY projects.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="podcasts">Podcasts</h3>
<p><em>Get inspired, while commuting, doing your morning routine, or at
the gym!</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://hasspodcast.io">Home Assistant Podcast</a> -
Biweekly podcast with the latest news and interesting guests.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="twitter">Twitter</h3>
<p><em>Keep up with the latest news and updates, 280 characters at a
time!</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/home_assistant"><span class="citation"
data-cites="home_assistant">@home_assistant</span></a> - Open source
home automation that puts local control and privacy first.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/hass_devs"><span class="citation"
data-cites="hass_devs">@hass_devs</span></a> - Latest news on the
development of Home Assistant for contributors.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/balloob"><span class="citation"
data-cites="balloob">@balloob</span></a> - Founder of the Home Assistant
project.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/pvizeli"><span class="citation"
data-cites="pvizeli">@pvizeli</span></a> - Core developer and creator of
the Hass.io project.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/frenck"><span class="citation"
data-cites="frenck">@frenck</span></a> - Creator of this Awesome list
and maintainer of the Community Hass.io Add-ons project.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ccostan"><span class="citation"
data-cites="ccostan">@ccostan</span></a> - Blogger of all things Tech.
Smart Home, #IOT &amp; other Geeky subjects.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/HomeTechHacker"><span class="citation"
data-cites="HomeTechHacker">@HomeTechHacker</span></a> - Guy friends
call when #tech happens. Tweet 25-50x/week about #smarthome,
#homenetwork, #cybersecurity, #Linux, #gadgets, and #life.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/hassioaddons"><span class="citation"
data-cites="hassioaddons">@hassioaddons</span></a> - For all commmunity
add-on news and updates.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_Zzs"><span class="citation"
data-cites="Dr_Zzs">@Dr_Zzs</span></a> - Great how-to videos and also
streams live.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="uncategorized">Uncategorized</h2>
<p><em>Valuable links, that dont fit in any of the above categories
(yet!).</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mKeRix/room-assistant">Room
Assistant</a> - A companion client to handle sensors in multiple
rooms.</li>
<li><a
href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/home-assistant-open-source-home-automation/id1099568401?mt=8">Home
Assistant Companion</a> - iPhone/iPad/iOS App to control and monitor
your home remotely.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ThomDietrich/miflora-mqtt-daemon">Mi
Flora via MQTT daemon</a> - Collect and transfer Xiaomi Mi Flora plant
sensor data via MQTT.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dale3h/hassctl">hassctl</a> - Simple
command line utility to help debug your configuration.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy">rhasspy</a> - Toolkit
for developing custom voice assistants.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ozerov.de/fully-kiosk-browser/">Fully Kiosk
Browser</a> - Highly configurable Android Kiosk Browser and App
Launcher.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/AppDaemon/appdaemon">AppDaemon</a> -
AppDaemon is a loosely coupled, multi-threaded, sandboxed Python
execution environment for writing automation apps.</li>
<li><a href="https://developers.home-assistant.io/">Developer
Documentation</a> - The official developer documentation.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/danielperna84/hass-configurator">HASS
Configurator</a> - Browser-based configuration file editor.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/philhawthorne/ha-dockermon">HA-Dockermon</a> -
A Node.js service for RESTful switches to control Docker
containers.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Nekmo/amazon-dash">Python Amazon
Dash</a> - Hack your Amazon Dash to run what you want. Without
welders.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hobbyquaker/homekit2mqtt">homekit2mqtt</a> -
HomeKit to MQTT bridge.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.hadevices.com/">Home Assistant Device
Database</a> - Database of supported/confirmed working devices.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/skalavala/mysmarthome/tree/master/jinja_helpers">Jinja
Scripts for Curious Minds</a> - Bunch of Jinja2 scripts helping you to
understand it better.</li>
<li><a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.surodev.ariela">Ariela</a>
- Freemium Android client application with widget support.</li>
<li><a
href="https://about.gitlab.com/2018/08/02/using-the-gitlab-ci-slash-cd-for-smart-home-configuration-management/">Gitlab
CI/CD</a> - How to simplify your smart home configuration with GitLab
CI/CD.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/andrewjfreyer/monitor">Monitor</a> -
Distributed advertisement-based BTLE presence detection reported via
MQTT.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/robmarkcole/HASS-data-detective">HASS-data-detective</a>
- Explore and analyse your database data.</li>
<li><a
href="https://gist.github.com/mcfrojd/9e6875e1db5c089b1e3ddeb7dba0f304">ADB
Intents</a> - List of ADB intents to control Android Devices.</li>
<li><a
href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=keesschollaart.vscode-home-assistant">Home
Assistant Config Helper for VSCode</a> - Visual Studio Code Extension
that provides auto-completion, config validation and snippets when
editting your configuration.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/Home-Assistant-Taskbar-Menu">Home
Assistant Taskbar Menu</a> - A client for Windows that can display
Lovelace views, control entities and show persistent notifications.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="alternative-home-automation-software">Alternative Home
Automation Software</h2>
<p><em>Home Assistant isnt the only home automation framework out
there, here are some alternatives.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/openhab">openHAB</a> - Java-based and
aims at being a universal integration platform.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz">Domoticz</a> - A
lightweight Home Automation System.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/GladysProject/Gladys">Gladys</a> - Open
source program which runs on your Raspberry Pi.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.smartthings.com/">SmartThings</a> - Commercial
home automation hub by Samsung.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="other-awesome-lists">Other Awesome Lists</h2>
<p><em>Other amazingly awesome lists that can be found on the great and
dangerous interwebs.</em></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/pfalcon/awesome-smarthome">awesome-smarthome</a>
- Curated list of awesome SmartHome/Home Automation things.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/HQarroum/awesome-iot">awesome-iot</a> -
Curated list of awesome Internet of Things projects and resources.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/Agile-IoT/awesome-open-iot">awesome-open-iot</a>
- Curated list of open source IoT frameworks, libraries and
software.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/miguelmota/awesome-amazon-alexa#readme">awesome-amazon-alexa</a>
- Curated list of awesome resources for the Amazon Alexa platform.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/hobbyquaker/awesome-mqtt#readme">awesome-mqtt</a>
- Curated list of MQTT related stuff.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted">awesome-selfhosted</a>
- Curated list of awesome self hosted software.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="contributing">Contributing</h2>
<p>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 <a
href="https://github.com/frenck/awesome-home-assistant/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">Contribution
Guidelines</a>.</p>
<p>The original setup of this awesome list is by <a
href="https://twitter.com/frenck">Franck Nijhof</a>.</p>
<p>For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the <a
href="https://github.com/frenck/awesome-home-assistant/graphs/contributors">contributors
page</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you for being involved! 😍</p>
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