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Oct 24, 2026
📈 Charts & graphs
- Sensor Bar Card Plus (⭐96) - Highly configurable sensor bars and gauges with dynamic scales, multiple fill styles, targets, reference markers, and Tile card integration (96★).
May 15, 2026
🤝 Official Communities
- Home Assistant Discord - The main chat, most of us are there.
🌍 In your language
- 🇨🇳 Hassbian Forum - Chinese-language forum for smart home enthusiasts.
- 🇨🇿 Home Assistant CZ - Czech-language forum with an active user base.
- 🇩🇰 Dansk Home Assistant gruppe - Danish-language Facebook group.
- 🇫🇮 Home Assistant Suomi - Finnish-language Facebook group.
- 🇫🇷 HACF Discord - French-language Discord run by the HACF community.
- 🇩🇪 simon42 Community Forum - German-language forum for smart home topics.
- 🇬🇷 Home Assistant GR - Greek-language Facebook group.
- 🇮🇱 Home-Assistant.io Israel - Hebrew-language Facebook group.
- 🇭🇺 Home Assistant Hungary - Hungarian-language Facebook group.
- 🇮🇹 HassioHelp - Italian-language Telegram group for troubleshooting and support.
- 🇯🇵 Home Assistant Japan - Japanese-language Facebook group.
- 🇰🇷 HomeAssistant Cafe - Korean-language community on Naver.
- 🇳🇴 Home Assistant Norge - Norwegian-language Facebook group.
- 🇵🇱 Home Assistant Polska - Polish-language Facebook group.
- 🇵🇹 CPHA Forum - Portuguese-language forum by the Comunidade Portuguesa de Home Assistant.
- 🇷🇴 Home Assistant Romania - Romanian-language Facebook group.
- 🇪🇸 Domotica en casa - Spanish-language forum for home automation enthusiasts.
- 🇸🇪 Svenska Home Assistant-gruppen - Swedish-language Facebook group.
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan Home Assistant - Traditional Chinese Facebook group.
- 🇹🇭 Home Assistant Thailand - Thai-language Facebook group.
💬 Other community spaces
- r/homeautomation - The largest platform-agnostic home automation subreddit, covering all hubs, protocols, and project ideas.
- r/smarthome - Product-focused smart home subreddit with buying advice, reviews, and setup questions.
- r/selfhosted - Subreddit for self-hosted software, with a large crossover into home automation and local control.
- Home Assistant on Lemmy - Fediverse alternative to the subreddit for privacy-minded users.
- Home Automation on Lemmy - General home automation community on the Fediverse.
- Everything Smart Home Discord - General smart home discussion server run by Lewis Barclay.
- Home Operations Discord - For people managing their smart home infrastructure with GitOps and Kubernetes.
- #Home-Assistant on Matrix - Matrix room for real-time chat on the open, federated protocol.
- CocoonTech - One of the oldest home automation forums on the web, covering all platforms for over 20 years.
📱 Social / Official
- Home Assistant (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
- Open Home Foundation (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram) - Protecting privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.
- Nabu Casa (X) - The company behind the cloud service.
📱 Social / Community
- Franck Nijhof (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn) - Lead of the project and creator of this Awesome list.
- Everything Smart Home (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads) - Smart-home and tech reviews, guides, and DIY projects by Lewis Barclay.
📱 Social / 🌍 In other languages
- 🇩🇪 simon42 (Instagram, Facebook) - Beginner-friendly smart-home guides and automations by Simon Müller.
- 🇫🇷 HACF (X) - French-speaking community sharing tutorials and resources.
- 🇵🇹 CPHA (Facebook) - Portuguese community for home automation enthusiasts.
Alternative Home Automation Software / 🌍 In other languages
- Homebridge (⭐26k) - Lightweight Node.js server that bridges non-HomeKit devices into Apple Home, with a large plugin ecosystem (25,527★).
- Node-RED (⭐24k) - Flow-based visual programming tool for wiring together devices, APIs, and services, backed by the OpenJS Foundation (23,775★).
- ioBroker (⭐1.4k) - Integration platform for IoT with hundreds of adapters and strong European protocol support for KNX and HomeMatic (1,382★).
- FHEM - Perl-based server with 430+ modules and deep support for European protocols like KNX, EnOcean, and HomeMatic.
- Jeedom (⭐413) - French-origin, cloudless platform with a plugin marketplace, running on any Linux system (413★).
- Hubitat - Commercial local-first hub supporting Z-Wave, Zigbee, and Matter with all automations running on the device.
- HomeSeer - Commercial platform with 25+ years of development, strong Z-Wave support, and an extensive plugin ecosystem.
May 11, 2026
🌍 In your language
- 🇩🇪 Home Assistant DE - German-language Telegram group for discussions, tips, and help.
📦 Third Party Apps
- C-Gate Web Bridge (⭐6) - Bridge Clipsal C-Bus lighting and automation systems to Home Assistant via MQTT with auto-discovery (6★).
✍️ Blogs / English
- HomeTechHacker - DIY smart-home guides, reviews, and advice.
- Intermittent Technology - Quindor's personal blog covering smart home, networking, and adjacent tech.
- KPeyanski - Tutorials and walkthroughs covering automations, AI integrations, and energy management by Kiril Peyanski.
- fixtse - Hardware reviews and DIY guides for presence detection, voice assistants, and local AI by Sergio Romero.
- Michael Leen - Practical setup advice and gear reviews aimed at people building their first smart home.
- Phil Hawthorne - Field notes on integrations, presence detection, and household automations from a long-time podcaster.
- Frenck - Behind-the-scenes posts on open source, project leadership, and personal automation experiments by Franck Nijhof.
✍️ Blogs / 🌍 In other languages
- 🇩🇪 simon42 - Beginner-friendly guides on installation, integrations, and automations by Simon Müller.
- 🇩🇪 smarterkram - Detailed tutorials on Zigbee, Matter, ESPHome, and hardware by Oliver Kluth.
- 🇩🇪 SmartHome yourself - Release coverage, device reviews, and integration guides by Daniel Scheidler.
📺 YouTube Channels / English
- Home Automation Guy - Smart-home tutorials, automations, and gear reviews by Alan Byrne (113K subs).
- mostlychris - Smart-home tutorials and gadget reviews by Chris West (41.2K subs).
- KPeyanski - Hands-on tutorials for hardware projects, dashboards, and integrations by Kiril Peyanski (34K subs).
- This Smart House - Beginner-friendly setup walkthroughs and product reviews by Ryan Holland (34.9K subs).
- SlackerLabs - Automation, scripting, and tinkering walkthroughs by Jeffrey Stone (30.5K subs).
- Michael Leen - Smart-home tutorials and integration walkthroughs (28.1K subs).
- Technithusiast - Tutorials, integrations, and automations by Michael Montaque (23.1K subs).
- 3ATIVE VFX - Smart-home automations and integrations by VFX artist David Martin (20.7K subs).
- Smart Home Australia - Australia-flavored smart-home reviews and tutorials by Paul Toner (21.5K subs).
- CTech&Media - Smart-home reviews and tutorials by Charly Schulte (20.6K subs).
- Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home - Lead of the Home Assistant project, with occasional videos on his own experience and inside views on what is happening in the Home Assistant world (9.8K subs).
📺 YouTube Channels / 🌍 In other languages
- 🇸🇦 Smart Tech Arabic - Tutorials in Arabic by Shady Nafie (102K subs).
- 🇧🇷 Descomplicando Tech - Smart-home guides by Fabricio Goncalves (16.3K subs).
- 🇫🇷 AyLabs - Tutorials, integrations, and automation walkthroughs by Aymeric Le Feyer (14.1K subs).
- 🇩🇪 simon42 - Tutorials, automations, and dashboard guides by Simon Müller (271K subs).
- 🇩🇪 haus:automation - Tutorials, integrations, and automation walkthroughs by Matthias Kleine (137K subs).
- 🇩🇪 SmartHome yourself - DIY smart-home builds and guides by Daniel Scheidler (35.6K subs).
- 🇩🇪 Tristans Smartes Heim - Smart-home setup guides and integrations by Tristan Küsters (14.3K subs).
- 🇮🇹 DinamoTech - Smart-home tutorials and reviews by Francesco Cova (81.5K subs).
- 🇮🇹 Ipensieridellarchitetto - Domotics, technology, and AI walkthroughs (15.1K subs).
- 🇪🇸 Home Assistant y Domótica Fácil - Smart-home tutorials and automations by Luis del Valle (147K subs).
- 🇪🇸 Tecnoyfoto - Tutorials and product reviews by Albert Barnosell (45.5K subs).
Alternative Home Automation Software / 🌍 In other languages
- Homey - Commercial multi-protocol platform from Athom that puts local control first with Homey Pro, with Homey Cloud as a hosted option.
May 09, 2026
🌍 In your language
- 🇧🇷 Home Assistant Brasil - Brazilian Portuguese Telegram group for users of all skill levels.
- 🇳🇱 Home Assistant NL - Dutch-language Telegram group.
- 🇫🇷 HACF Forum - Discussion forum of the French-speaking association HACF (Home Assistant Communauté Française).
- 🇮🇹 Home Assistant Italia - Italian Telegram group for sharing ideas and projects.
- 🇷🇺 Home Assistant RU Telegram - Russian-speaking Telegram group.
🧩 Around community projects
- AppDaemon Discord - Help with the Python automation framework that runs alongside the core.
- Frigate Discussions (⭐37k) - GitHub Discussions for the local-NVR / object-detection project.
- HACS Discord - Help with the Home Assistant Community Store.
- Music Assistant Discord - Chat for the multi-room music server.
- NetDaemon Discord - Help with writing automations in C# / .NET.
- Tasmota Discord - Chat for the ESP firmware that powers many Sonoff and eWeLink devices.
- Z-Wave JS Discord - Chat for the Z-Wave JS stack used by the Z-Wave integration.
- Zigbee2MQTT Discussions (⭐16k) - GitHub Discussions for the popular Zigbee bridge.
💬 Other community spaces
- Home Assistant International Telegram - English-speaking Telegram group for the wider international community.
🤖 AI & LLMs
- LLM Vision (⭐1.5k) - Add visual intelligence to your automations: caption camera snapshots, summarize what is happening, react to specific events (1,503★).
- AI Automation Suggester (⭐801) - Scan your entities and ask an AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, Ollama) for tailored automation suggestions, surfaced as notifications (801★).
💡 Lighting
- Adaptive Lighting (⭐3.5k) - Slowly adjust the brightness and color temperature of your lights based on the position of the sun (3,520★).
- Govee (⭐363) - Local control of Govee Wi-Fi lights and bulbs, including effects and color modes (363★).
🌡️ Climate
- Better Thermostat (⭐1.5k) - Smarter thermostat with window detection, heating curves, and per-room comfort profiles for thermostatic radiator valves (1,522★).
- Versatile Thermostat (⭐1.2k) - Full-featured thermostat with presets, window detection, motion-based comfort, and presence (1,214★).
- Midea Air Appliances LAN (⭐489) - Local control of Midea air conditioners, dehumidifiers, and other appliances over LAN (489★).
- Smart Autotune Thermostat (SAT) (⭐256) - Self-tuning thermostat that talks to OpenTherm, ESPHome, or MQTT gateways and adapts the heating curve to your home over time (255★).
- Dual Smart Thermostat (⭐239) - Enhanced version of the built-in generic thermostat, with separate heating and cooling, floor temperature limits, and humidity controls (239★).
⚡ Energy & solar
- Powercalc (⭐1.6k) - Calculate estimated power consumption of lights and other devices, even those that don't report it themselves (1,613★).
- Anker Solix (⭐1.1k) - Pull Anker Solix balcony solar systems, batteries, and power stations into the energy dashboard with live state, history, and charging control (1,120★).
- Octopus Energy (⭐1k) - Pull Octopus Energy tariffs, smart meter readings, intelligent dispatch slots, and saving sessions into your dashboard (1,028★).
- Huawei Solar (⭐937) - Read and control Huawei solar inverters and home batteries over Modbus, including grid charge windows (937★).
- SolaX Modbus (⭐528) - Talk to SolaX, Solinteg, Sofar, Growatt, and other inverters over Modbus, including read-only and inverter control modes (526★).
- Solarman (⭐530) - Read Deye, Sofar, and other Solarman-branded inverters via the Solarman stick logger (525★).
- OCPP (⭐409) - Bring electric vehicle chargers that speak OCPP into the energy dashboard, with start, stop, and per-session metering (407★).
- Solcast PV Forecast (⭐464) - Pulls Solcast solar production forecasts so you can see expected generation for the day, with up-to-the-hour confidence bands (462★).
- EPEX Spot (⭐324) - Brings hourly EPEX spot electricity prices into your dashboard so you can shift loads to the cheapest slots (323★).
- ENTSO-e Day-Ahead Prices (⭐281) - Fetches day-ahead electricity prices from the ENTSO-e Transparency Platform across most European countries (281★).
- SolarEdge Modbus Multi (⭐332) - Reads SolarEdge inverters, meters, and batteries locally over Modbus/TCP, with multi-inverter and three-phase support (332★).
- FoxESS Modbus (⭐340) - Connects directly to FoxESS solar inverters over Modbus, no cloud round-trips, for real-time status and control (340★).
- Victron GX (⭐322) - Reads data from a Victron GX device over Modbus/TCP, exposing inverters, batteries, solar chargers, and AC inputs (322★).
- Solis Sensor (⭐333) - Talks to the SolisCloud PV monitoring portal so you can pull Solis inverter generation, battery, and grid data into the energy dashboard (330★).
- GoodWe Inverter (⭐240) - Pulls live data from GoodWe solar inverters over the local network for use in the energy dashboard (240★).
- Solar Optimizer (⭐245) - Starts and stops your appliances based on solar surplus production so you self-consume rather than export (245★).
- Dynamic Energy Cost (⭐203) - Tracks real-time and cumulative energy cost against a dynamic price feed like Nord Pool or EPEX (203★).
- Energi Data Service (⭐284) - Fetches Danish electricity spot prices from the Energi Data Service API for use in price-aware automations (284★).
📹 Cameras & video
- Frigate (⭐1.3k) - Integrate the Frigate NVR with local object detection into your dashboard, alerts, and snapshots (1,285★).
- Eufy Security (⭐1.4k) - Manage Eufy Security cameras, doorbells, and base stations with live streams and event notifications (1,404★).
- Tapo Control (⭐2k) - Control TP-Link Tapo cameras with PTZ, motion events, and a live RTSP stream (2,028★).
- Dahua (⭐572) - Pair Dahua cameras and doorbells with motion events, snapshots, sirens, and PTZ controls (572★).
🚨 Security & alarm
- Alarmo (⭐2.3k) - Easy-to-use alarm system with arm/disarm flows, user codes, zones, and panic mode (2,328★).
- Keymaster (⭐350) - Manages user codes on Z-Wave smart locks, including per-user schedules, one-time codes, and notifications (350★).
🔊 Voice & media playback
- Alexa Media Player (⭐2k) - Control Amazon Alexa devices: announce, play media, and pull device state into your automations (1,990★).
- YandexStation (⭐2k) - Control Yandex Station speakers and other smart-home devices through Alice (1,954★).
- Yandex Smart Home (⭐1.1k) - Expose your devices to Yandex Alice and the Yandex smart-home app (1,089★).
- View Assist Companion (⭐516) - Companion Android app and integration that turns a tablet into a hands-free voice and dashboard satellite (512★).
🚗 Cars & EV charging
- Kia Uvo & Hyundai Bluelink (⭐972) - Track and control Kia Connect (Uvo) and Hyundai Bluelink cars across EU, Canada, and USA, including charging, climate, and lock state (966★).
- Tesla (⭐787) - Track Tesla cars and Powerwalls with charging, climate, location, and security state, using a refresh token from a third-party login app (787★).
- Volkswagen Carnet (⭐707) - Track charging state, climate preconditioning, and remote lock and honk for Volkswagen cars on the Carnet platform (708★).
- Audi Connect (⭐376) - Tracks Audi cars over the Audi Connect API, including charging state, range, lock, and climate preconditioning (375★).
- Polestar (⭐276) - Reads Polestar EVs through the Polestar app API, with range, charging, and location data (275★).
- Stellantis Vehicles (⭐287) - Adds Stellantis cars (Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat, Opel, Vauxhall, DS) over the manufacturer API for range, lock, and climate (283★).
- evcc (⭐489) - Connects to an evcc instance to surface charge sessions, solar matching, and per-loadpoint state (487★).
- Easee EV Charger (⭐284) - Adds Easee EV chargers with live charge state, dynamic load balancing, and per-session metering (284★).
- EV Smart Charging (⭐333) - Plans an electric vehicle charging schedule across the cheapest hours of a dynamic tariff, working with most chargers and price sensors (333★).
📍 Presence & location
- iPhone Detect (⭐655) - Detect iPhones (and other phones) on the local Wi-Fi without an app, by sending a UDP probe and watching for the reply (657★).
- Flightradar24 (⭐561) - Track aircraft flying over a configurable bounding box around your home using Flightradar24 (554★).
- Places (⭐218) - Reverse-geocodes a device tracker location through OpenStreetMap so automations can react to "at the supermarket" rather than raw coordinates (217★).
🧹 Vacuums
- Dreame Vacuum (⭐2.2k) - Dreame robot vacuums with full map support, including no-go zones and selective room cleaning (2,244★).
🔵 Bluetooth & BLE
- BLE Monitor (⭐2.2k) - Passively read sensor data from Xiaomi MiBeacon, Govee, ATC, Inkbird, Qingping, and many other BLE sensors (2,248★).
- Bermuda (⭐2.1k) - Room-level presence detection by triangulating BLE signals across multiple ESPHome receivers (2,094★).
- BLE Battery Management Systems (⭐373) - Reads Bluetooth Low Energy battery management systems (BMS) from many vendors, exposing per-cell voltages, balancing, and SOC (372★).
- EcoFlow BLE (⭐420) - Pulls EcoFlow power stations and accessories over Bluetooth Low Energy, no cloud account required (415★).
🔋 Battery monitoring
- Battery Notes (⭐1.2k) - Annotate every device with its battery type and quantity, then track replacements, low-battery warnings, and history (1,187★).
🏷️ Vendor & brand
- Xiaomi MIoT (⭐6.2k) - Auto-integrate Xiaomi smart-home devices over Wi-Fi, BLE, and Zigbee using the MIoT-spec protocol (6,172★).
- Xiaomi Gateway 3 (⭐2.8k) - Local control of Xiaomi Multimode Gateway and Aqara Hub E1 over LAN, no cloud round-trips (2,799★).
- Midea AC LAN (⭐1.9k) - Local control of Midea air conditioners, heat pumps, and other M-Smart devices (1,911★).
- SmartThinQ Sensors (⭐1.3k) - LG appliances (washers, dryers, AC, fridges) wired up via SmartThinQ with rich state and remote start (1,329★).
- Home Connect Alt (⭐1k) - Alternative Home Connect integration for Bosch, Siemens, NEFF, and Gaggenau ovens, dishwashers, and washing machines, with richer state than the official one (1,024★).
- Tapo Devices (⭐978) - TP-Link Tapo plugs, switches, bulbs, and energy monitoring (P100, P105, P110, L510, L530, L900) over LAN (977★).
- Meross (⭐861) - Control Meross plugs, switches, bulbs, garage door openers, and humidifiers via the Meross IoT cloud (859★).
- HomeMatic IP Local (⭐604) - Local control of HomeMatic and HomeMatic IP devices through OpenCCU or RaspberryMatic, no cloud round-trips (605★).
- Nest Protect (⭐487) - Track Nest Protect smoke and CO alarms with battery state, recent events, and per-room safety status (487★).
- Meross LAN (⭐754) - Local control of Meross plugs, switches, lights, and garage door openers, falling back to cloud only when needed (751★).
- LocalTuya (⭐4k) - Local control of Tuya devices over the LAN, no cloud round-trips, supporting plugs, lights, climate, and covers (4,004★).
- SamsungTV Smart (⭐681) - Improved Samsung TV integration with SmartThings support, source switching, app launching, and per-app icons (681★).
- Dyson (⭐441) - Wi-Fi connected Dyson fans, purifiers, and humidifiers, with full per-mode control over the local network (441★).
- PetKit (⭐356) - Adds PetKit feeders, fountains, and litter boxes over the manufacturer cloud, with full state and feeding controls (357★).
- Miele (⭐263) - Pairs Miele washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, ovens, and coffee machines, with detailed program state (263★).
- Home Connect Local (⭐499) - Talks to Bosch, Siemens, NEFF, and Gaggenau appliances directly over the local network, no cloud detour (495★).
- hOn (⭐292) - Pulls Haier, Candy, and Hoover appliances from the official hOn cloud, exposing every state and parameter the app shows (292★).
- PETLIBRO (⭐377) - Adds PETLIBRO smart pet feeders and fountains, with feeding schedules, dispense events, and battery levels (377★).
🛠️ Automation tooling
- Browser Mod (⭐1.8k) - Turn each browser into a controllable entity: pop up cards, navigate views, play sounds, or detect who is looking at the dashboard (1,827★).
- Pyscript (⭐1.2k) - Write automations and templates in Python instead of YAML (1,192★).
- Spook (⭐1.7k) - A toolbox of helpful sensors, services, and templates that surface things the UI normally hides (1,727★).
- Scheduler Component (⭐911) - Build weekly schedules for any entity through a card-driven UI, no YAML required (911★).
- Node-RED Companion (⭐583) - Companion component for the node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket project that exposes services, sensors, and binary sensors back to your dashboards (583★).
- Magic Areas (⭐522) - Auto-build per-room presence, climate, and media area entities, with motion-triggered scenes and bright/dark detection (522★).
- Auto Backup (⭐465) - Automate backups with custom schedules, retention rules, encryption, and uploads to remote storage (465★).
- Multiscrape (⭐452) - Scrape multiple values (HTML, XML, or JSON) from a page in one request and turn them into sensors (453★).
- Retry Service (⭐174) - Wraps any service call so transient failures retry automatically with exponential backoff (173★).
🏘️ Civic & household
- Mail and Packages (⭐894) - Sensors for incoming and delivered packages plus USPS Informed Delivery preview images, all from your existing email account (891★).
- Irrigation Unlimited (⭐465) - Multi-zone irrigation controller with schedules, sequences, weather adjustments, and manual run support (465★).
- Moonraker (Klipper) (⭐500) - Track Klipper-based 3D printers running Moonraker (Mainsail, Fluidd) with print progress, temperature, and webcam snapshots (500★).
- Smart Irrigation (⭐564) - Calculates how long to run each irrigation zone based on evapotranspiration, recent rainfall, and weather forecasts (564★).
- UK Bin Collection (⭐359) - Council bin collection schedules across UK local authorities, exposed as next-pickup sensors per waste stream (357★).
🔐 Network & authentication
- OIDC Auth (⭐1.1k) - Sign in with single sign-on through any OpenID Connect provider, including Authelia, Authentik, Keycloak, and Pocket ID (1,121★).
- OpenID Connect Auth (⭐213) - Sign in through any OpenID Connect provider, including Authelia, Keycloak, and Authentik (213★).
- TP-Link Router (⭐395) - Manages TP-Link and Mercusys routers with sensors, reboot button, switches, and per-client device tracking (395★).
- Mikrotik Router (⭐473) - Pulls Mikrotik routers and access points into your dashboard, with per-client traffic, DHCP leases, and PoE controls (472★).
🔗 Federation & multi-instance
- Remote Home Assistant (⭐1.3k) - Link multiple instances together so entities, services, and events flow between them (1,281★).
📊 Logging & analytics
- TrueNAS (⭐386) - Pull TrueNAS Scale and Core stats, datasets, virtual machines, and apps into sensors and switches (386★).
- Monitor Docker (⭐415) - Watch CPU, memory, network, and uptime for every Docker container on a host, including remote ones, and start or stop them from automations (414★).
- Unraid (⭐257) - Monitors and controls an Unraid NAS, including CPU, memory, disks, virtual machines, and Docker containers (257★).
🧱 Dashboard frameworks
- Mushroom (⭐5.2k) - A complete card collection with a soft, mobile-first aesthetic that you can drop into existing dashboards (5,219★).
- Bubble Card (⭐4.7k) - Minimalist card collection with a pop-up touch and rich customization (4,657★).
- Floorplan (⭐1.6k) - Map entities onto an SVG of your house and animate them based on state changes (1,628★).
- UI Lovelace Minimalist (⭐2.1k) - Drop-in dashboard collection with a uniform minimalist look across all your views, including ready-made cards and a button card library (2,076★).
📐 Layout helpers
- Layout Card (⭐1.3k) - Get fine-grained control over how cards are placed on your dashboard, including masonry-style and grid layouts (1,254★).
- Vertical Stack In Card (⭐984) - Group multiple cards into a single sleek card with one shared border (984★).
- Fold Entity Row (⭐709) - A foldable row that hides extra entities behind a header until clicked (709★).
- State Switch (⭐479) - Dynamically swap one card for another based on the state of an entity, the time of day, or the user viewing (479★).
- Swipe Navigation (⭐576) - Switch between dashboard views with a swipe gesture on mobile (576★).
- Custom Card Features (⭐451) - Adds buttons, dropdowns, sliders, spinboxes, selectors, and toggles you can attach to tile cards to call any service (451★).
- Custom Sidebar (⭐296) - Personalise the sidebar per user or device, hide pages, reorder them, or restyle the look (294★).
- Paper Buttons Row (⭐371) - Highly configurable button rows that can call actions, fire haptics, and restyle per state (371★).
- Streamline Card (⭐272) - Define a card template once and reuse it across the dashboard with different entities, no copy-paste YAML (272★).
📈 Charts & graphs
- ApexCharts Card (⭐1.9k) - Advanced graphs and charts powered by ApexChartsJS with timelines, multi-axis, and event markers (1,882★).
- Sankey Chart (⭐679) - Sankey-style flow diagram for visualising power, water, or any other flow across your home (679★).
- Modern Circular Gauge (⭐289) - Modern-looking circular gauge card with smooth animations, color stops, and template support (289★).
- Flex Table Card (⭐283) - Highly flexible table card with arbitrary columns, regex-matched entities, and per-row styling, useful for AppDaemon and templated content (282★).
📋 Status & info rows
- Battery State Card (⭐1.3k) - List devices with their battery levels in a tidy card, sorted and color-coded (1,279★).
- Scheduler Card (⭐1.3k) - Build and edit weekly schedules for any entity right from the dashboard (1,266★).
- Entity Progress Card (⭐284) - Progress-bar card for any numeric entity, with thresholds, gradients, and templated icons (283★).
- Vehicle Status Card (⭐308) - Dashboard card showing fuel or charge level, range, doors, lock state, and a customizable image of the car (308★).
- Timer Bar Card (⭐607) - Progress-bar card for any timer entity, with countdown, formatted remaining time, and configurable colors (606★).
☀️ Weather cards
- Weather Chart Card (⭐449) - Weather card with a chart-style hourly forecast and customizable layout (449★).
- Hourly Weather (⭐410) - Show today's hourly forecast as a colored horizontal bar so you can see at a glance when conditions change (410★).
- Weather Radar (⭐465) - Animated rain radar card using the public RainViewer tile service, with country-level and regional zoom (465★).
- Clock Weather Card (⭐883) - Combined date, time, and weather forecast card with an iOS-inspired layout for the days ahead (882★).
- Horizon Card (⭐688) - Visualises the position of the Sun over the horizon throughout the day, with sunrise, sunset, and twilight markers (688★).
🌡️ Climate cards
- Mini Climate (⭐328) - Compact climate card with current temperature, target, and per-mode controls, sized for small dashboards and mobile (328★).
⚡ Energy cards
- Sunsynk Power Flow (⭐397) - Visualise the live energy flow of Sunsynk and Deye inverters, mirroring the layout of the inverter screen (397★).
💡 Lighting cards
- Hue-Like Light Card (⭐388) - Light card styled and laid out like the Philips Hue app, with grouped scenes and per-bulb control (389★).
- Light Entity Card (⭐290) - Compact card to control any light or switch entity with brightness, color temperature, and color picker (290★).
📸 Camera cards
- Advanced Camera Card (⭐1.2k) - Comprehensive camera card with timelines, galleries, snapshots, clips, and per-event playback (1,191★).
🧹 Vacuum cards
- Valetudo Map (⭐322) - Display the live map from a robot vacuum running Valetudo (cloudless firmware) directly on a dashboard (322★).
📅 Calendar & feed
- Week Planner Card (⭐526) - Responsive multi-day overview of upcoming events, alarms, and reminders (527★).
- Trash Card (⭐381) - Show the next trash pickup type (paper, plastic, organic) based on a calendar entity, with color-coded icons (381★).
- Calendar Card Pro (⭐1.2k) - Customizable calendar card with event grouping, location indicators, and a clean modern look (1,225★).
📡 Remote control
- HA Firemote (⭐1.1k) - Virtual remote for Apple TV, Fire TV, Chromecast, Homatics, Shield, onn., Roku, Xiaomi, and more (1,086★).
- Universal Remote Card (⭐612) - Fully customizable virtual remote for any media device, supporting custom buttons and haptics (613★).
🖥️ Kiosk & wallpanel
- Wall Panel (⭐884) - Wall-panel mode and photo-screensaver for tablets mounted on the wall (885★).
- Kiosk Mode (⭐818) - Hide the header, sidebar, and overflow menu for a clean kiosk-style view (817★).
Themes
- Frosted Glass (⭐1k) - Modern frosted-glass dark and light themes with translucent cards (1,041★).
- iOS Themes (⭐881) - Themes inspired by iOS dark and light modes (881★).
- LCARS (⭐594) - Star Trek LCARS-inspired theme for the bridge feel (593★).
- Material You (⭐481) - Material Design 3 theme that adapts to your accent color (481★).
- Graphite (⭐463) - Calm and clean theme with a focused, low-contrast feel (462★).
- Catppuccin (⭐508) - Soothing pastel theme matching the popular Catppuccin palette across editors and apps (506★).
- Mushroom Themes (⭐309) - Additional themes designed to pair with the Mushroom card collection (309★).
- visionOS (⭐431) - Theme inspired by Apple's visionOS (431★).
- Nordic (⭐44) - Light and dark themes in a Nordic palette, with several blue-tinted variants (44★).
May 08, 2026
Public Configurations
- Ryan Warner (⭐8) - Docker on Ubuntu HA Config, maintained since early HA. Highly documented and regularly updated (8★).
📐 Layout helpers
- Config Template Card (⭐568) - Allow using templates in Lovelace (567★).
- Button card (⭐2.5k) - Highly customizable button for your entities (2,512★).
- Expander Card (⭐422) - Expandable and collapsible card to group and hide other cards behind a header (422★).
🗺️ Maps & location
- ha-map-card (⭐138) - Leaflet-based map card with history trails, custom tile layers, and tap actions (138★).
🧹 Vacuum cards
- Vacuum Map Card (⭐1.9k) - This card provides a user-friendly way to fully control Xiaomi (Roborock/Viomi/Dreame/Roidmi) and Neato (+ possibly other) vacuums (1,947★).
Dashboards
- Mushroom Strategy (⭐674) - A strategy that automatically generates a dashboard using Mushroom cards (673★).
📦 Third Party Apps
- SSH & Web Terminal (⭐540) - SSH and Web-based terminal with tons of pre-loaded useful tools (540★).
- UniFi Controller (⭐386) - The UniFi Controller allows you to manage your UniFi network using a web browser (386★).
- Node-RED (⭐654) - Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things (654★).
- Plex Media Server (⭐196) - Your recorded media beautifully organized and ready to stream (196★).
- Tor (⭐63) - Protect your privacy and access your instance via Tor (63★).
- Spotify Connect (⭐264) - Stream music from Spotify directly to your Home Assistant device (264★).
- Aircast (⭐408) - AirPlay capabilities for your Chromecast players (408★).
- AirSonos (⭐123) - AirPlay capabilities for your Sonos players (123★).
- Glances (⭐194) - A cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python (194★).
- AdGuard Home (⭐539) - A network-wide ad-and-tracker blocking DNS server with parental control (539★).
- Grocy (⭐461) - ERP beyond your fridge! A groceries & household management solution for your home (461★).
🧩 Standalone projects
- Sonoff NSPanel (⭐997) - Custom firmware for Sonoff NSPanel touchscreens with a Lovelace-style UI (997★).
- CODESYS V3 Home Automation (⭐148) - PLC home-automation software that communicates over MQTT for wired automation setups (148★).
Tools & Utilities
- GitLab CI/CD - How to simplify your smart home configuration with GitLab CI/CD.
✍️ Blogs / English
- SmartHomeScene - Beginner-friendly tutorials, smart-home device reviews, and DIY automation projects.
📺 YouTube Channels / English
- Smart Home Junkie - How-to videos and tutorials for starters and advanced users by Ed de Tollenaer (88.3K subs).
Alternative Home Automation Software / 🌍 In other languages
- Gladys (⭐3.2k) - Open source program which runs on your Raspberry Pi (3,250★).
Other Awesome Lists / 🌍 In other languages
- awesome-mqtt (⭐2.4k) - Curated list of MQTT related stuff (2,408★).
Jun 21, 2022
🛠️ Automation tooling
- The Watchman (⭐691) - Keep track of missing entities and services in your config files (689★).
Jun 16, 2022
🔊 Voice & media playback
- Spotcast (⭐814) - Start Spotify playback on an idle Chromecast device as well as control Spotify connect devices (814★).
🏷️ Vendor & brand
- Sonoff LAN (⭐3.3k) - Control Sonoff devices with eWeLink (original) firmware over LAN and/or Cloud (3,332★).
Jun 15, 2022
🌍 In your language
- 🇳🇱 Dutch Domotics Discord - Dutch-language home-automation Discord.
📦 Third Party Apps
- CrowdSec (⭐98) - A next-gen collaborative IPS/IDS to protect you from intrusion (98★).
Jun 14, 2022
📹 Cameras & video
- WebRTC Camera (⭐2.2k) - View RTSP streams from IP Cameras in real-time through WebRTC or MSE with Pan/Zoom controls (2,190★).
Dashboards
- Dwains Dashboard (⭐2.1k) - A fully auto-generating dashboard for desktop, tablet and mobile (2,077★).
Icon packs
- Hass Hue Icons (⭐395) - Additional Philips Hue bulbs and fixtures icons (395★).
📦 Third Party Apps
- JupyterLab (⭐71) - Create documents containing live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text (71★).
Jun 13, 2022
Installing
- Home Assistant Installation - The official installation guides.
- Compare Installation Methods - The available installation methods compared.
Public Configurations
- Klaas Schoute (⭐224) - Home Assistant OS based, Intel NUC, Ubuntu Server, Docker and regularly updated (224★).
🧹 Vacuums
- Xiaomi Cloud Map Extractor (⭐1.4k) - Presents a live view of a map for Xiaomi (Roborock/Viomi/Roidmi/Dreame) vacuums without a need for rooting (1,435★).
📐 Layout helpers
- Card Modder (⭐1.8k) - Style your Lovelace cards (1,832★).
📅 Calendar & feed
- Atomic Calendar Revive (⭐678) - Calendar card with advanced settings (678★).
🧩 Standalone projects
- Tasmota (⭐25k) - Firmware for ESP8266 boards and devices (24,900★).
📺 YouTube Channels / English
- Home Assistant - Official channel for new launches and live streams (76.5K subs).
- Everything Smart Home - Smart-home and tech reviews, guides, and step-by-step DIY projects (247K subs).
Other Awesome Lists / 🌍 In other languages
- awesome-selfhosted (⭐325k) - Curated list of awesome self hosted software (329,428★).
Jun 12, 2022
🧹 Vacuum cards
- Vacuum Card (⭐1.3k) - A card for controlling a robot vacuum (1,262★).
🍃 Air quality
- Purifier Card (⭐345) - A card for controlling air purifiers (345★).
Jul 15, 2021
Tools & Utilities
- Home Assistant Taskbar Menu (⭐345) - A client for Windows that can display Lovelace views, control entities and show persistent notifications (345★).
Nov 30, 2020
🌡️ Climate cards
- Thermostat Card (⭐749) - Thermostat control card that looks like a Nest Thermostat (749★).
Oct 06, 2020
📐 Layout helpers
- Restriction Card (⭐324) - A card to provide restrictions on Lovelace cards defined within (324★).
Oct 01, 2020
📦 Third Party Apps
- AppDaemon (⭐971) - A loosely coupled, multi-threaded, sandboxed Python execution environment for writing automation apps (971★).
Sep 27, 2020
🛡️ Official Apps
- DuckDNS (⭐2.2k) - Updates your Duck DNS IP address and generates SSL using Let's Encrypt.
- File editor (⭐2.2k) - Browser-based configuration file editor.
- Mosquitto (⭐2.2k) - Fast and reliable MQTT broker.
- Terminal & SSH (⭐2.2k) - Allows logging in remotely using a web terminal or SSH client.
- Samba (⭐2.2k) - Access your configuration files using Windows network shares.
- NGINX SSL proxy (⭐2.2k) - Reverse proxy with SSL termination.
- deCONZ (⭐2.2k) - Control a ZigBee network using ConBee or RaspBee hardware by Dresden Elektronik.
- Let's Encrypt (⭐2.2k) - Get a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt; an open and automated certificate authority (CA).
- MariaDB (⭐2.2k) - An open source relational database (fork of MySQL).
Sep 25, 2020
🤝 Official Communities
- Home Assistant Facebook Group - Facebook group for enthusiasts.
Sep 24, 2020
📐 Layout helpers
- Auto-Entities Card (⭐1.8k) - Dynamically adds entities: 🔮 Magic (1,827★).
📡 Remote control
- LG WebOS Remote Control (⭐589) - Remote Control for LG TV WebOS (587★).
🔨 DIY Projects
- QuinLED - DIY Wi-Fi LED dimmers and controllers using ESP32 boards.
Nov 22, 2019
💡 Lighting cards
- RGB Light Card (⭐577) - Colorful buttons to control your RGB Lights (576★).
Nov 17, 2019
📺 YouTube Channels / English
- BeardedTinker - Smart-home tutorials and 3D printing (45.7K subs).
Oct 22, 2019
Themes
- Synthwave (⭐207) - A theme influenced by the cover artwork of modern Synthwave bands (207★).
Sep 30, 2019
Themes
- Slate (⭐141) - A dark theme close to the vanilla look (141★).
Sep 25, 2019
🤝 Official Communities
- Home Assistant Community - The discussion forum.
- Home Assistant Subreddit - The official subreddit.
🧩 Around community projects
- ESPHome Discord - Help with ESP-based DIY devices and the YAML firmware for them.
Public Configurations
- Carlo Costanzo (⭐5.3k) - Probably the most documented configuration out there (5,307★).
- DubhAd (⭐691) - Also known as Tinkerer, shares his configuration files (691★).
- geekofweek (⭐1.5k) - Has 300+ automations (1,490★).
- Alok Saboo (⭐2k) - Also known as arsaboo. Regularly updated (1,961★).
- Franck Nijhof (⭐2k) - Home Assistant OS based, very different configuration structure compared to others (2,038★).
💡 Lighting
- Circadian Lighting (⭐902) - Slowly synchronizes your color-changing lights with the naturally occurring color temperature of the sky throughout the day (902★).
📹 Cameras & video
- HASS Aarlo (⭐484) - Asynchronous Arlo integration. Similar to the Arlo web site; monitors events and states for all base stations, cameras and doorbells (483★).
📍 Presence & location
- iCloud3 (⭐927) - Improved version of the iCloud device tracker component with a lot of capabilities (927★).
🏷️ Vendor & brand
- SmartIR (⭐2.9k) - Integrates devices using Broadlink IR (2,852★).
📊 Logging & analytics
- Elasticsearch (⭐163) - Publishes events to Elasticsearch (164★).
📈 Charts & graphs
- Mini Graph Card (⭐3.9k) - A minimalistic sensor graph card (3,903★).
📋 Status & info rows
- Slider Entity Row (⭐928) - Add a slider to adjust, e.g., the brightness of lights in lovelace entity cards (926★).
🎵 Media cards
- Mini Media Player (⭐1.7k) - A minimalistic media player card (1,725★).
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.
Icon packs
- Font Awesome Icons (⭐346) - Use the free icons from Font Awesome in your frontend (346★).
📦 Third Party Apps
- InfluxDB (⭐203) - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics (203★).
- Grafana (⭐280) - Open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring (280★).
- zigbee2mqtt (⭐16k) - Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges (15,753★).
- TasmoAdmin (⭐261) - Centrally manage all your Sonoff-Tasmota devices (261★).
- Tautulli (⭐46) - Monitor and get statistics from your Plex server (46★).
- motionEye (⭐340) - Simple, elegant and feature-rich CCTV/NVR for your cameras (340★).
- Traccar (⭐161) - Modern GPS tracking platform (161★).
- Hass.io Google Drive Backup (⭐3.6k) - A complete and easy-to-configure solution for backing up to Google Drive (3,579★).
🧩 Standalone projects
- ESPHome - Program ESP8266 boards and ESP32 boards using YAML.
🌉 DIY Gateways
- OpenMQTTGateway (⭐4.1k) - A flexible MQTT gateway for IR, RF, BLE, MiFlora, SMS, and many sensors (4,109★).
- esp8266 Milight Hub (⭐1k) - Alternative hub for Milight/LimitlessLED devices that uses MQTT (1,048★).
🔨 DIY Projects
- HA SwitchPlate - LCD Touchscreen wall switch replacement.
- $10 WiFi RGB Bulb - An inexpensive RGB bulb that works on WiFi.
- 433mhz/IR Bidirectional Gateway - Bidirectional with IR and 433mhz using ESP8266 and MQTT.
- esp8266MQTTBlinds - Automate your window blinds using an ESP8266, a servo and MQTT.
- Home Assistant's Hackster.io - A Hackster channel with multiple DIY projects.
- Bed Presence Detection - ESP8266 based Bed Presence Detection.
Tools & Utilities
- HASS Configurator (⭐339) - Browser-based configuration file editor (338★).
- HA-Dockermon (⭐289) - A Node.js service for RESTful switches to control Docker containers (289★).
- Home Assistant Device Database - Database of supported/confirmed working devices.
- Jinja Scripts for Curious Minds (⭐268) - Bunch of Jinja2 scripts helping you to understand it better.
- HASS-data-detective (⭐207) - Explore and analyse your database data (207★).
- ADB Intents - List of ADB intents to control Android Devices.
- Home Assistant Config Helper for VSCode - Visual Studio Code Extension that provides auto-completion, config validation and snippets when editing your configuration.
✍️ Blogs / English
- Smart Home Hobby - Features budget-friendly guides and information.
- Self Hosted Home - Articles on DIY home automation projects and self-hosted services.
- Tinkering with Home Automation - Tinkerer's blog and guides.
📺 YouTube Channels / English
- The Hook Up - Smart-home tutorials, gadget reviews, and home-automation experiments by Robert Tait (585K subs).
- digiblurDIY - Hardware project tutorials and Tasmota automations (74.8K subs).
- Intermit.Tech - Tutorials and reviews covering cameras, home networking, ESP boards, and Node-RED (62.7K subs).
- JuanMTech - Easy-to-follow how-to videos and product reviews (42.6K subs).
🎙️ Podcasts / 🌍 In other languages
- Home Assistant Podcast - Biweekly podcast with the latest news and interesting guests.
Alternative Home Automation Software / 🌍 In other languages
- openHAB - Java-based and aims at being a universal integration platform.
- Domoticz (⭐3.8k) - A lightweight Home Automation System (3,824★).
- SmartThings - Commercial home automation hub by Samsung.
Other Awesome Lists / 🌍 In other languages
- awesome-iot (⭐4.5k) - Curated list of awesome Internet of Things projects and resources (4,529★).