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May 18 - May 24, 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.
- 🇩🇪 Home Assistant DE - German-language Telegram group for discussions, tips, and help.
- 🇩🇪 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.
📦 Third Party Apps
- C-Gate Web Bridge (⭐4) - Bridge Clipsal C-Bus lighting and automation systems to Home Assistant via MQTT with auto-discovery (4★).
✍️ 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 (39.9K subs).
- KPeyanski - Hands-on tutorials for hardware projects, dashboards, and integrations by Kiril Peyanski (33.6K subs).
- This Smart House - Beginner-friendly setup walkthroughs and product reviews by Ryan Holland (33.5K subs).
- SlackerLabs - Automation, scripting, and tinkering walkthroughs by Jeffrey Stone (30.6K subs).
- Michael Leen - Smart-home tutorials and integration walkthroughs (26.3K subs).
- Technithusiast - Tutorials, integrations, and automations by Michael Montaque (22.7K subs).
- 3ATIVE VFX - Smart-home automations and integrations by VFX artist David Martin (20.5K subs).
- Smart Home Australia - Australia-flavored smart-home reviews and tutorials by Paul Toner (20.4K subs).
- CTech&Media - Smart-home reviews and tutorials by Charly Schulte (17.7K 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 (9.7K subs).
📺 YouTube Channels / 🌍 In other languages
- 🇸🇦 Smart Tech Arabic - Tutorials in Arabic by Shady Nafie (97.8K subs).
- 🇧🇷 Descomplicando Tech - Smart-home guides by Fabricio Goncalves (15.8K subs).
- 🇫🇷 AyLabs - Tutorials, integrations, and automation walkthroughs by Aymeric Le Feyer (11.7K subs).
- 🇩🇪 simon42 - Tutorials, automations, and dashboard guides by Simon Müller (192K subs).
- 🇩🇪 haus:automation - Tutorials, integrations, and automation walkthroughs by Matthias Kleine (136K subs).
- 🇩🇪 SmartHome yourself - DIY smart-home builds and guides by Daniel Scheidler (34.6K subs).
- 🇩🇪 Tristans Smartes Heim - Smart-home setup guides and integrations by Tristan Küsters (13.7K subs).
- 🇮🇹 DinamoTech - Smart-home tutorials and reviews by Francesco Cova (77.2K subs).
- 🇮🇹 Ipensieridellarchitetto - Domotics, technology, and AI walkthroughs (14.8K subs).
- 🇪🇸 Home Assistant y Domótica Fácil - Smart-home tutorials and automations by Luis del Valle (133K subs).
- 🇪🇸 Tecnoyfoto - Tutorials and product reviews by Albert Barnosell (44.8K subs).
📱 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
- Homey - Commercial multi-protocol platform from Athom that puts local control first with Homey Pro, with Homey Cloud as a hosted option.
- Homebridge (⭐25k) - Lightweight Node.js server that bridges non-HomeKit devices into Apple Home, with a large plugin ecosystem (25,329★).
- Node-RED (⭐23k) - Flow-based visual programming tool for wiring together devices, APIs, and services, backed by the OpenJS Foundation (23,130★).
- ioBroker (⭐1.4k) - Integration platform for IoT with hundreds of adapters and strong European protocol support for KNX and HomeMatic (1,366★).
- FHEM - Perl-based server with 430+ modules and deep support for European protocols like KNX, EnOcean, and HomeMatic.
- Jeedom (⭐414) - 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 - May 17, 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 (⭐32k) - 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 (⭐15k) - GitHub Discussions for the popular Zigbee bridge.
💬 Other community spaces
- Home Assistant International Telegram - English-speaking Telegram group for the wider international community.
Public Configurations
- Ryan Warner (⭐5) - Docker on Ubuntu HA Config, maintained since early HA. Highly documented and regularly updated (5★).
🤖 AI & LLMs
- LLM Vision (⭐1.3k) - Add visual intelligence to your automations: caption camera snapshots, summarize what is happening, react to specific events (1,325★).
- AI Automation Suggester (⭐722) - Scan your entities and ask an AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, Ollama) for tailored automation suggestions, surfaced as notifications (721★).
💡 Lighting
- Adaptive Lighting (⭐3.3k) - Slowly adjust the brightness and color temperature of your lights based on the position of the sun (3,279★).
- Govee (⭐349) - Local control of Govee Wi-Fi lights and bulbs, including effects and color modes (349★).
🌡️ Climate
- Better Thermostat (⭐1.4k) - Smarter thermostat with window detection, heating curves, and per-room comfort profiles for thermostatic radiator valves (1,389★).
- Versatile Thermostat (⭐1k) - Full-featured thermostat with presets, window detection, motion-based comfort, and presence (1,040★).
- Midea Air Appliances LAN (⭐451) - Local control of Midea air conditioners, dehumidifiers, and other appliances over LAN (451★).
- Smart Autotune Thermostat (SAT) (⭐243) - Self-tuning thermostat that talks to OpenTherm, ESPHome, or MQTT gateways and adapts the heating curve to your home over time (243★).
- Dual Smart Thermostat (⭐224) - Enhanced version of the built-in generic thermostat, with separate heating and cooling, floor temperature limits, and humidity controls (224★).
⚡ Energy & solar
- Powercalc (⭐1.5k) - Calculate estimated power consumption of lights and other devices, even those that don't report it themselves (1,472★).
- Anker Solix (⭐963) - Pull Anker Solix balcony solar systems, batteries, and power stations into the energy dashboard with live state, history, and charging control (963★).
- Octopus Energy (⭐918) - Pull Octopus Energy tariffs, smart meter readings, intelligent dispatch slots, and saving sessions into your dashboard (918★).
- Huawei Solar (⭐882) - Read and control Huawei solar inverters and home batteries over Modbus, including grid charge windows (882★).
- SolaX Modbus (⭐484) - Talk to SolaX, Solinteg, Sofar, Growatt, and other inverters over Modbus, including read-only and inverter control modes (484★).
- Solarman (⭐462) - Read Deye, Sofar, and other Solarman-branded inverters via the Solarman stick logger (462★).
- OCPP (⭐362) - Bring electric vehicle chargers that speak OCPP into the energy dashboard, with start, stop, and per-session metering (362★).
- Solcast PV Forecast (⭐399) - Pulls Solcast solar production forecasts so you can see expected generation for the day, with up-to-the-hour confidence bands (399★).
- EPEX Spot (⭐302) - Brings hourly EPEX spot electricity prices into your dashboard so you can shift loads to the cheapest slots (302★).
- ENTSO-e Day-Ahead Prices (⭐264) - Fetches day-ahead electricity prices from the ENTSO-e Transparency Platform across most European countries (264★).
- SolarEdge Modbus Multi (⭐293) - Reads SolarEdge inverters, meters, and batteries locally over Modbus/TCP, with multi-inverter and three-phase support (292★).
- FoxESS Modbus (⭐290) - Connects directly to FoxESS solar inverters over Modbus, no cloud round-trips, for real-time status and control (289★).
- Victron GX (⭐315) - Reads data from a Victron GX device over Modbus/TCP, exposing inverters, batteries, solar chargers, and AC inputs (315★).
- Solis Sensor (⭐315) - Talks to the SolisCloud PV monitoring portal so you can pull Solis inverter generation, battery, and grid data into the energy dashboard (315★).
- GoodWe Inverter (⭐208) - Pulls live data from GoodWe solar inverters over the local network for use in the energy dashboard (208★).
- Solar Optimizer (⭐222) - Starts and stops your appliances based on solar surplus production so you self-consume rather than export (222★).
- Dynamic Energy Cost (⭐186) - Tracks real-time and cumulative energy cost against a dynamic price feed like Nord Pool or EPEX (186★).
- Energi Data Service (⭐269) - Fetches Danish electricity spot prices from the Energi Data Service API for use in price-aware automations (269★).
📹 Cameras & video
- Frigate (⭐1.2k) - Integrate the Frigate NVR with local object detection into your dashboard, alerts, and snapshots (1,153★).
- Eufy Security (⭐1.3k) - Manage Eufy Security cameras, doorbells, and base stations with live streams and event notifications (1,318★).
- Tapo Control (⭐1.9k) - Control TP-Link Tapo cameras with PTZ, motion events, and a live RTSP stream (1,861★).
- Dahua (⭐534) - Pair Dahua cameras and doorbells with motion events, snapshots, sirens, and PTZ controls (532★).
🚨 Security & alarm
- Alarmo (⭐2.1k) - Easy-to-use alarm system with arm/disarm flows, user codes, zones, and panic mode (2,109★).
- Keymaster (⭐329) - Manages user codes on Z-Wave smart locks, including per-user schedules, one-time codes, and notifications (329★).
🔊 Voice & media playback
- Alexa Media Player (⭐1.9k) - Control Amazon Alexa devices: announce, play media, and pull device state into your automations (1,935★).
- YandexStation (⭐1.8k) - Control Yandex Station speakers and other smart-home devices through Alice (1,837★).
- Yandex Smart Home (⭐1k) - Expose your devices to Yandex Alice and the Yandex smart-home app (1,046★).
- View Assist Companion (⭐348) - Companion Android app and integration that turns a tablet into a hands-free voice and dashboard satellite (348★).
🚗 Cars & EV charging
- Kia Uvo & Hyundai Bluelink (⭐851) - Track and control Kia Connect (Uvo) and Hyundai Bluelink cars across EU, Canada, and USA, including charging, climate, and lock state (851★).
- Tesla (⭐727) - Track Tesla cars and Powerwalls with charging, climate, location, and security state, using a refresh token from a third-party login app (725★).
- Volkswagen Carnet (⭐512) - Track charging state, climate preconditioning, and remote lock and honk for Volkswagen cars on the Carnet platform (512★).
- Audi Connect (⭐328) - Tracks Audi cars over the Audi Connect API, including charging state, range, lock, and climate preconditioning (328★).
- Polestar (⭐241) - Reads Polestar EVs through the Polestar app API, with range, charging, and location data (241★).
- Stellantis Vehicles (⭐223) - Adds Stellantis cars (Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat, Opel, Vauxhall, DS) over the manufacturer API for range, lock, and climate (223★).
- evcc (⭐387) - Connects to an evcc instance to surface charge sessions, solar matching, and per-loadpoint state (387★).
- Easee EV Charger (⭐272) - Adds Easee EV chargers with live charge state, dynamic load balancing, and per-session metering (272★).
- EV Smart Charging (⭐290) - Plans an electric vehicle charging schedule across the cheapest hours of a dynamic tariff, working with most chargers and price sensors (290★).
📍 Presence & location
- iPhone Detect (⭐615) - Detect iPhones (and other phones) on the local Wi-Fi without an app, by sending a UDP probe and watching for the reply (615★).
- Flightradar24 (⭐428) - Track aircraft flying over a configurable bounding box around your home using Flightradar24 (426★).
- Places (⭐181) - Reverse-geocodes a device tracker location through OpenStreetMap so automations can react to "at the supermarket" rather than raw coordinates (181★).
🧹 Vacuums
- Dreame Vacuum (⭐1.9k) - Dreame robot vacuums with full map support, including no-go zones and selective room cleaning (1,916★).
🔵 Bluetooth & BLE
- BLE Monitor (⭐2.2k) - Passively read sensor data from Xiaomi MiBeacon, Govee, ATC, Inkbird, Qingping, and many other BLE sensors (2,202★).
- Bermuda (⭐1.8k) - Room-level presence detection by triangulating BLE signals across multiple ESPHome receivers (1,750★).
- BLE Battery Management Systems (⭐316) - Reads Bluetooth Low Energy battery management systems (BMS) from many vendors, exposing per-cell voltages, balancing, and SOC (316★).
- EcoFlow BLE (⭐277) - Pulls EcoFlow power stations and accessories over Bluetooth Low Energy, no cloud account required (277★).
🔋 Battery monitoring
- Battery Notes (⭐1.1k) - Annotate every device with its battery type and quantity, then track replacements, low-battery warnings, and history (1,078★).
🏷️ Vendor & brand
- Xiaomi MIoT (⭐5.9k) - Auto-integrate Xiaomi smart-home devices over Wi-Fi, BLE, and Zigbee using the MIoT-spec protocol (5,859★).
- Xiaomi Gateway 3 (⭐2.7k) - Local control of Xiaomi Multimode Gateway and Aqara Hub E1 over LAN, no cloud round-trips (2,745★).
- Midea AC LAN (⭐1.6k) - Local control of Midea air conditioners, heat pumps, and other M-Smart devices (1,616★).
- SmartThinQ Sensors (⭐1.3k) - LG appliances (washers, dryers, AC, fridges) wired up via SmartThinQ with rich state and remote start (1,296★).
- Home Connect Alt (⭐953) - Alternative Home Connect integration for Bosch, Siemens, NEFF, and Gaggenau ovens, dishwashers, and washing machines, with richer state than the official one (952★).
- Tapo Devices (⭐944) - TP-Link Tapo plugs, switches, bulbs, and energy monitoring (P100, P105, P110, L510, L530, L900) over LAN (944★).
- Meross (⭐846) - Control Meross plugs, switches, bulbs, garage door openers, and humidifiers via the Meross IoT cloud (846★).
- HomeMatic IP Local (⭐564) - Local control of HomeMatic and HomeMatic IP devices through OpenCCU or RaspberryMatic, no cloud round-trips (564★).
- Nest Protect (⭐457) - Track Nest Protect smoke and CO alarms with battery state, recent events, and per-room safety status (456★).
- Meross LAN (⭐701) - Local control of Meross plugs, switches, lights, and garage door openers, falling back to cloud only when needed (701★).
- LocalTuya (⭐3.8k) - Local control of Tuya devices over the LAN, no cloud round-trips, supporting plugs, lights, climate, and covers (3,821★).
- SamsungTV Smart (⭐642) - Improved Samsung TV integration with SmartThings support, source switching, app launching, and per-app icons (642★).
- Dyson (⭐411) - Wi-Fi connected Dyson fans, purifiers, and humidifiers, with full per-mode control over the local network (411★).
- PetKit (⭐335) - Adds PetKit feeders, fountains, and litter boxes over the manufacturer cloud, with full state and feeding controls (335★).
- Miele (⭐268) - Pairs Miele washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, ovens, and coffee machines, with detailed program state (269★).
- Home Connect Local (⭐364) - Talks to Bosch, Siemens, NEFF, and Gaggenau appliances directly over the local network, no cloud detour (364★).
- hOn (⭐246) - Pulls Haier, Candy, and Hoover appliances from the official hOn cloud, exposing every state and parameter the app shows (246★).
- PETLIBRO (⭐305) - Adds PETLIBRO smart pet feeders and fountains, with feeding schedules, dispense events, and battery levels (305★).
🛠️ Automation tooling
- Browser Mod (⭐1.7k) - Turn each browser into a controllable entity: pop up cards, navigate views, play sounds, or detect who is looking at the dashboard (1,730★).
- Pyscript (⭐1.1k) - Write automations and templates in Python instead of YAML (1,150★).
- Spook (⭐1.1k) - A toolbox of helpful sensors, services, and templates that surface things the UI normally hides (1,112★).
- Scheduler Component (⭐874) - Build weekly schedules for any entity through a card-driven UI, no YAML required (874★).
- Node-RED Companion (⭐568) - Companion component for the node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket project that exposes services, sensors, and binary sensors back to your dashboards (568★).
- Magic Areas (⭐476) - Auto-build per-room presence, climate, and media area entities, with motion-triggered scenes and bright/dark detection (476★).
- Auto Backup (⭐457) - Automate backups with custom schedules, retention rules, encryption, and uploads to remote storage (455★).
- Multiscrape (⭐429) - Scrape multiple values (HTML, XML, or JSON) from a page in one request and turn them into sensors (429★).
- Retry Service (⭐162) - Wraps any service call so transient failures retry automatically with exponential backoff (162★).
🏘️ Civic & household
- Mail and Packages (⭐826) - Sensors for incoming and delivered packages plus USPS Informed Delivery preview images, all from your existing email account (826★).
- Irrigation Unlimited (⭐426) - Multi-zone irrigation controller with schedules, sequences, weather adjustments, and manual run support (426★).
- Moonraker (Klipper) (⭐462) - Track Klipper-based 3D printers running Moonraker (Mainsail, Fluidd) with print progress, temperature, and webcam snapshots (462★).
- Smart Irrigation (⭐494) - Calculates how long to run each irrigation zone based on evapotranspiration, recent rainfall, and weather forecasts (494★).
- UK Bin Collection (⭐320) - Council bin collection schedules across UK local authorities, exposed as next-pickup sensors per waste stream (320★).
🔐 Network & authentication
- OIDC Auth (⭐899) - Sign in with single sign-on through any OpenID Connect provider, including Authelia, Authentik, Keycloak, and Pocket ID (899★).
- OpenID Connect Auth (⭐198) - Sign in through any OpenID Connect provider, including Authelia, Keycloak, and Authentik (198★).
- TP-Link Router (⭐340) - Manages TP-Link and Mercusys routers with sensors, reboot button, switches, and per-client device tracking (340★).
- Mikrotik Router (⭐444) - Pulls Mikrotik routers and access points into your dashboard, with per-client traffic, DHCP leases, and PoE controls (443★).
🔗 Federation & multi-instance
- Remote Home Assistant (⭐1.2k) - Link multiple instances together so entities, services, and events flow between them (1,217★).
📊 Logging & analytics
- TrueNAS (⭐364) - Pull TrueNAS Scale and Core stats, datasets, virtual machines, and apps into sensors and switches (364★).
- Monitor Docker (⭐398) - Watch CPU, memory, network, and uptime for every Docker container on a host, including remote ones, and start or stop them from automations (398★).
- Unraid (⭐232) - Monitors and controls an Unraid NAS, including CPU, memory, disks, virtual machines, and Docker containers (232★).
🧱 Dashboard frameworks
- Mushroom (⭐5k) - A complete card collection with a soft, mobile-first aesthetic that you can drop into existing dashboards (4,960★).
- Bubble Card (⭐4.2k) - Minimalist card collection with a pop-up touch and rich customization (4,173★).
- Floorplan (⭐1.5k) - Map entities onto an SVG of your house and animate them based on state changes (1,523★).
- UI Lovelace Minimalist (⭐2k) - Drop-in dashboard collection with a uniform minimalist look across all your views, including ready-made cards and a button card library (2,019★).
📐 Layout helpers
- Config Template Card (⭐547) - Allow using templates in Lovelace (547★).
- Button card (⭐2.4k) - Highly customizable button for your entities (2,432★).
- Expander Card (⭐412) - Expandable and collapsible card to group and hide other cards behind a header (412★).
- Layout Card (⭐1.2k) - Get fine-grained control over how cards are placed on your dashboard, including masonry-style and grid layouts (1,241★).
- Vertical Stack In Card (⭐970) - Group multiple cards into a single sleek card with one shared border (970★).
- Fold Entity Row (⭐706) - A foldable row that hides extra entities behind a header until clicked (706★).
- State Switch (⭐456) - Dynamically swap one card for another based on the state of an entity, the time of day, or the user viewing (456★).
- Swipe Navigation (⭐533) - Switch between dashboard views with a swipe gesture on mobile (533★).
- Custom Card Features (⭐419) - Adds buttons, dropdowns, sliders, spinboxes, selectors, and toggles you can attach to tile cards to call any service (419★).
- Custom Sidebar (⭐271) - Personalise the sidebar per user or device, hide pages, reorder them, or restyle the look (271★).
- Paper Buttons Row (⭐359) - Highly configurable button rows that can call actions, fire haptics, and restyle per state (359★).
- Streamline Card (⭐249) - Define a card template once and reuse it across the dashboard with different entities, no copy-paste YAML (249★).
📈 Charts & graphs
- Dual Gauge Card (⭐220) - Shows two gauges in one (220★).
- ApexCharts Card (⭐1.8k) - Advanced graphs and charts powered by ApexChartsJS with timelines, multi-axis, and event markers (1,769★).
- Sankey Chart (⭐650) - Sankey-style flow diagram for visualising power, water, or any other flow across your home (650★).
- Modern Circular Gauge (⭐264) - Modern-looking circular gauge card with smooth animations, color stops, and template support (264★).
- Flex Table Card (⭐266) - Highly flexible table card with arbitrary columns, regex-matched entities, and per-row styling, useful for AppDaemon and templated content (265★).
📋 Status & info rows
- Battery State Card (⭐1.2k) - List devices with their battery levels in a tidy card, sorted and color-coded (1,235★).
- Scheduler Card (⭐1.2k) - Build and edit weekly schedules for any entity right from the dashboard (1,220★).
- Entity Progress Card (⭐250) - Progress-bar card for any numeric entity, with thresholds, gradients, and templated icons (250★).
- Vehicle Status Card (⭐251) - Dashboard card showing fuel or charge level, range, doors, lock state, and a customizable image of the car (251★).
- Timer Bar Card (⭐568) - Progress-bar card for any timer entity, with countdown, formatted remaining time, and configurable colors (568★).
☀️ Weather cards
- Weather Chart Card (⭐435) - Weather card with a chart-style hourly forecast and customizable layout (435★).
- Hourly Weather (⭐387) - Show today's hourly forecast as a colored horizontal bar so you can see at a glance when conditions change (387★).
- Weather Radar (⭐360) - Animated rain radar card using the public RainViewer tile service, with country-level and regional zoom (360★).
- Clock Weather Card (⭐821) - Combined date, time, and weather forecast card with an iOS-inspired layout for the days ahead (820★).
- Horizon Card (⭐644) - Visualises the position of the Sun over the horizon throughout the day, with sunrise, sunset, and twilight markers (644★).
🌡️ Climate cards
- Mini Climate (⭐318) - Compact climate card with current temperature, target, and per-mode controls, sized for small dashboards and mobile (318★).
⚡ Energy cards
- Sunsynk Power Flow (⭐369) - Visualise the live energy flow of Sunsynk and Deye inverters, mirroring the layout of the inverter screen (369★).
💡 Lighting cards
- Hue-Like Light Card (⭐360) - Light card styled and laid out like the Philips Hue app, with grouped scenes and per-bulb control (360★).
- Light Entity Card (⭐281) - Compact card to control any light or switch entity with brightness, color temperature, and color picker (281★).
🗺️ Maps & location
- ha-map-card (⭐110) - Leaflet-based map card with history trails, custom tile layers, and tap actions (110★).
📸 Camera cards
- Advanced Camera Card (⭐1k) - Comprehensive camera card with timelines, galleries, snapshots, clips, and per-event playback (1,041★).
🧹 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 (1,863★).
- Valetudo Map (⭐301) - Display the live map from a robot vacuum running Valetudo (cloudless firmware) directly on a dashboard (301★).
📅 Calendar & feed
- Week Planner Card (⭐503) - Responsive multi-day overview of upcoming events, alarms, and reminders (503★).
- Trash Card (⭐351) - Show the next trash pickup type (paper, plastic, organic) based on a calendar entity, with color-coded icons (351★).
- Calendar Card Pro (⭐1.1k) - Customizable calendar card with event grouping, location indicators, and a clean modern look (1,100★).
📡 Remote control
- HA Firemote (⭐957) - Virtual remote for Apple TV, Fire TV, Chromecast, Homatics, Shield, onn., Roku, Xiaomi, and more (956★).
- Universal Remote Card (⭐549) - Fully customizable virtual remote for any media device, supporting custom buttons and haptics (549★).
🖥️ Kiosk & wallpanel
- Wall Panel (⭐831) - Wall-panel mode and photo-screensaver for tablets mounted on the wall (829★).
- Kiosk Mode (⭐715) - Hide the header, sidebar, and overflow menu for a clean kiosk-style view (714★).
Dashboards
- Mushroom Strategy (⭐640) - A strategy that automatically generates a dashboard using Mushroom cards (640★).
Themes
- Frosted Glass (⭐864) - Modern frosted-glass dark and light themes with translucent cards (864★).
- iOS Themes (⭐860) - Themes inspired by iOS dark and light modes (860★).
- LCARS (⭐524) - Star Trek LCARS-inspired theme for the bridge feel (524★).
- Material You (⭐444) - Material Design 3 theme that adapts to your accent color (444★).
- Graphite (⭐432) - Calm and clean theme with a focused, low-contrast feel (432★).
- Catppuccin (⭐410) - Soothing pastel theme matching the popular Catppuccin palette across editors and apps (410★).
- Mushroom Themes (⭐302) - Additional themes designed to pair with the Mushroom card collection (302★).
- visionOS (⭐298) - Theme inspired by Apple's visionOS (296★).
- Nordic (⭐41) - Light and dark themes in a Nordic palette, with several blue-tinted variants (41★).
📦 Third Party Apps
- SSH & Web Terminal (⭐494) - SSH and Web-based terminal with tons of pre-loaded useful tools (494★).
- UniFi Controller (⭐367) - The UniFi Controller allows you to manage your UniFi network using a web browser (367★).
- Node-RED (⭐635) - Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things (635★).
- Plex Media Server (⭐187) - Your recorded media beautifully organized and ready to stream (187★).
- Tor (⭐62) - Protect your privacy and access your instance via Tor (62★).
- Spotify Connect (⭐252) - Stream music from Spotify directly to your Home Assistant device (252★).
- Aircast (⭐393) - AirPlay capabilities for your Chromecast players (394★).
- AirSonos (⭐120) - AirPlay capabilities for your Sonos players (120★).
- Glances (⭐184) - A cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python (184★).
- AdGuard Home (⭐511) - A network-wide ad-and-tracker blocking DNS server with parental control (511★).
- Grocy (⭐429) - ERP beyond your fridge! A groceries & household management solution for your home (429★).
🧩 Standalone projects
- Sonoff NSPanel (⭐986) - Custom firmware for Sonoff NSPanel touchscreens with a Lovelace-style UI (986★).
- CODESYS V3 Home Automation (⭐142) - PLC home-automation software that communicates over MQTT for wired automation setups (142★).
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 (84.9K subs).
Alternative Home Automation Software / 🌍 In other languages
- Gladys (⭐3.1k) - Open source program which runs on your Raspberry Pi (3,054★).
Other Awesome Lists / 🌍 In other languages
- awesome-mqtt (⭐2.3k) - Curated list of MQTT related stuff (2,332★).
Jun 20 - Jun 26, 2022
🛠️ Automation tooling
- The Watchman (⭐643) - Keep track of missing entities and services in your config files (643★).
Jun 13 - Jun 19, 2022
Installing
- Home Assistant Installation - The official installation guides.
- Compare Installation Methods - The available installation methods compared.
🌍 In your language
- 🇳🇱 Dutch Domotics Discord - Dutch-language home-automation Discord.
Public Configurations
- Klaas Schoute (⭐223) - Home Assistant OS based, Intel NUC, Ubuntu Server, Docker and regularly updated (223★).
📹 Cameras & video
- WebRTC Camera (⭐2.1k) - View RTSP streams from IP Cameras in real-time through WebRTC or MSE with Pan/Zoom controls (2,104★).
🔊 Voice & media playback
- Spotcast (⭐807) - Start Spotify playback on an idle Chromecast device as well as control Spotify connect devices (807★).
🧹 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 (1,392★).
🏷️ Vendor & brand
- Sonoff LAN (⭐3.2k) - Control Sonoff devices with eWeLink (original) firmware over LAN and/or Cloud (3,230★).
📐 Layout helpers
- Card Modder (⭐1.7k) - Style your Lovelace cards (1,692★).
📅 Calendar & feed
- Atomic Calendar Revive (⭐611) - Calendar card with advanced settings (611★).
Dashboards
- Dwains Dashboard (⭐2k) - A fully auto-generating dashboard for desktop, tablet and mobile (2,033★).
Icon packs
- Hass Hue Icons (⭐376) - Additional Philips Hue bulbs and fixtures icons (376★).
- simpleicons (⭐166) - Use the free icons from the simpleicons set (166★).
📦 Third Party Apps
- JupyterLab (⭐68) - Create documents containing live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text (68★).
- CrowdSec (⭐94) - A next-gen collaborative IPS/IDS to protect you from intrusion (94★).
🧩 Standalone projects
- Tasmota (⭐24k) - Firmware for ESP8266 boards and devices (24,346★).
📺 YouTube Channels / English
- Home Assistant - Official channel for new launches and live streams (73K subs).
- Everything Smart Home - Smart-home and tech reviews, guides, and step-by-step DIY projects (245K subs).
Other Awesome Lists / 🌍 In other languages
- awesome-selfhosted (⭐289k) - Curated list of awesome self hosted software (290,872★).
Jun 06 - Jun 12, 2022
🧹 Vacuum cards
- Vacuum Card (⭐1.2k) - A card for controlling a robot vacuum (1,199★).
🍃 Air quality
- Purifier Card (⭐339) - A card for controlling air purifiers (339★).
Jul 12 - Jul 18, 2021
Tools & Utilities
- Home Assistant Taskbar Menu (⭐342) - A client for Windows that can display Lovelace views, control entities and show persistent notifications (342★).
Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020
🌡️ Climate cards
- Thermostat Card (⭐744) - Thermostat control card that looks like a Nest Thermostat (744★).
Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2020
📐 Layout helpers
- Restriction Card (⭐316) - A card to provide restrictions on Lovelace cards defined within (316★).
Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020
📦 Third Party Apps
- AppDaemon (⭐955) - A loosely coupled, multi-threaded, sandboxed Python execution environment for writing automation apps (955★).
Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2020
🤝 Official Communities
- Home Assistant Facebook Group - Facebook group for enthusiasts.
📐 Layout helpers
- Auto-Entities Card (⭐1.7k) - Dynamically adds entities: 🔮 Magic (1,747★).
📡 Remote control
- LG WebOS Remote Control (⭐547) - Remote Control for LG TV WebOS (547★).
🛡️ 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).
🔨 DIY Projects
- QuinLED - DIY Wi-Fi LED dimmers and controllers using ESP32 boards.
Nov 25 - Dec 01, 2019
💡 Lighting cards
- RGB Light Card (⭐558) - Colorful buttons to control your RGB Lights (558★).
Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019
📺 YouTube Channels / English
- BeardedTinker - Smart-home tutorials and 3D printing (44.8K subs).
Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2019
Themes
- Synthwave (⭐199) - A theme influenced by the cover artwork of modern Synthwave bands (199★).
Oct 07 - Oct 13, 2019
Themes
- Slate (⭐136) - A dark theme close to the vanilla look (136★).
Sep 30 - Oct 06, 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 (⭐5.2k) - Probably the most documented configuration out there (5,147★).
- DubhAd (⭐686) - Also known as Tinkerer, shares his configuration files (686★).
- geekofweek (⭐1.5k) - Has 300+ automations (1,472★).
- Alok Saboo (⭐2k) - Also known as arsaboo. Regularly updated (1,953★).
- Franck Nijhof (⭐2k) - Home Assistant OS based, very different configuration structure compared to others (1,999★).
💡 Lighting
- Circadian Lighting (⭐882) - Slowly synchronizes your color-changing lights with the naturally occurring color temperature of the sky throughout the day (882★).
📹 Cameras & video
- HASS Aarlo (⭐466) - Asynchronous Arlo integration. Similar to the Arlo web site; monitors events and states for all base stations, cameras and doorbells (466★).
📍 Presence & location
- iCloud3 (⭐835) - Improved version of the iCloud device tracker component with a lot of capabilities (835★).
🏷️ Vendor & brand
- SmartIR (⭐2.7k) - Integrates devices using Broadlink IR (2,698★).
📊 Logging & analytics
- Elasticsearch (⭐164) - Publishes events to Elasticsearch (164★).
📈 Charts & graphs
- Mini Graph Card (⭐3.8k) - A minimalistic sensor graph card (3,810★).
- Canvas Gauge Card (⭐216) - Use awesome gauges from canvas-gauges.com (216★).
📋 Status & info rows
- Slider Entity Row (⭐906) - Add a slider to adjust, e.g., the brightness of lights in lovelace entity cards (906★).
🎵 Media cards
- Mini Media Player (⭐1.7k) - A minimalistic media player card (1,698★).
🌡️ Climate cards
- Simple Thermostat (⭐807) - A simpler and more flexible thermostat card (807★).
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 (⭐338) - Use the free icons from Font Awesome in your frontend (338★).
📦 Third Party Apps
- InfluxDB (⭐194) - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics (194★).
- Grafana (⭐275) - Open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring (275★).
- zigbee2mqtt (⭐15k) - Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges (15,106★).
- TasmoAdmin (⭐253) - Centrally manage all your Sonoff-Tasmota devices (253★).
- Log Viewer (⭐94) - Browser-based live log viewing utility (94★).
- Tautulli (⭐46) - Monitor and get statistics from your Plex server (46★).
- motionEye (⭐331) - Simple, elegant and feature-rich CCTV/NVR for your cameras (331★).
- Traccar (⭐158) - Modern GPS tracking platform (158★).
- Hass.io Google Drive Backup (⭐3.5k) - A complete and easy-to-configure solution for backing up to Google Drive (3,537★).
🧩 Standalone projects
- ESPHome - Program ESP8266 boards and ESP32 boards using YAML.
🌉 DIY Gateways
- OpenMQTTGateway (⭐4k) - A flexible MQTT gateway for IR, RF, BLE, MiFlora, SMS, and many sensors (4,010★).
- esp8266 Milight Hub (⭐1k) - Alternative hub for Milight/LimitlessLED devices that uses MQTT (1,027★).
🔨 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 (⭐335) - Browser-based configuration file editor (335★).
- HA-Dockermon (⭐291) - A Node.js service for RESTful switches to control Docker containers (291★).
- Home Assistant Device Database - Database of supported/confirmed working devices.
- Jinja Scripts for Curious Minds (⭐273) - Bunch of Jinja2 scripts helping you to understand it better.
- Monitor (⭐2.1k) - Distributed advertisement-based BTLE presence detection reported via MQTT (2,101★).
- HASS-data-detective (⭐204) - Explore and analyse your database data (204★).
- 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.
- Mi Flora via MQTT daemon (⭐624) - Collect and transfer Xiaomi Mi Flora plant sensor data via MQTT (624★).
✍️ Blogs / English
- DIY Futurism - Articles with clear step-by-step instructions for new users by Brad.
- 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 (574K subs).
- digiblurDIY - Hardware project tutorials and Tasmota automations (73.9K subs).
- Intermit.Tech - Tutorials and reviews covering cameras, home networking, ESP boards, and Node-RED (62.4K subs).
- JuanMTech - Easy-to-follow how-to videos and product reviews (42.5K 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 (⭐3.7k) - A lightweight Home Automation System (3,751★).
- SmartThings - Commercial home automation hub by Samsung.
Other Awesome Lists / 🌍 In other languages
- awesome-iot (⭐3.9k) - Curated list of awesome Internet of Things projects and resources (3,928★).