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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 dashboard 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 or raise an issue to suggest additions, updates or removals.

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 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.

Home Assistant 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 ‘Hi’.

Official Communities

Other Communities

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.

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.

Third Party Add-ons

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

Dashboards

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

Icon packs

Themes

It is all about the looks, apply some style.

Custom Cards

The Home Assistant Dashboards allows people to build custom cards on top of it, which you can easily add to your instance.

Alternative Dashboards

Custom Integrations

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

DIY

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

DIY Gateways

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.

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!

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.

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! 😍

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

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