Home Assistant 4+
Open Source Home Automation
Nabu Casa, Inc
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- Free
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Description
The Home Assistant Companion app allows you to access your Home Assistant instance on the go. Home Assistant is the smart home solution focused on privacy, choice, and sustainability. It runs locally in your home via a device like the Home Assistant Green or Raspberry Pi.
This app connects to all the most powerful features of Home Assistant,
- One app to control the whole home - Home Assistant is compatible with the biggest brands in the smart home, connecting to thousands of smart devices and services.
- Discover automatically and quickly configure new devices - such as Philips Hue, Google Cast, Sonos, and IKEA Tradfri.
- Automate everything - Make all the devices in your home work in harmony - have your lights dim when you start watching a movie, or turn off your heat when you’re away from home.
- Keep your home’s data in the home - use it privately to see past trends and averages.
- Connect to open standards with hardware add-ons - including Z-Wave, Zigbee, Matter, Thread, and Bluetooth.
- Connect anywhere - If you would like to access this app while away from home, the most secure and simple way to get started is Home Assistant Cloud.
The app unlocks your smartphone or tablet as a home automation tool.
- Securely share your location, using it to automate heating, security, and so much more.
- Get notifications on what's happening in your home, from detecting leaks to doors left open, you have full control over what it tells you.
- Carplay functionality lets you open a garage or disable the security system from the dash of your car.
- Build your own widgets to control any device in your home with a tap.
- Integrate Home Assistant's functionality into Shortcuts, for example have your phone’s morning alarm turn on the coffee machine.
- Apple Watch compatibility can show your home's temperature on a watch face or quickly activate devices.
- Text or talk to your local voice assistant on your device.
- Mac compatibility allows you to control your home from your desktop, but also to share data to build automation, like having your streaming lights turn on when your camera is active.
Join the over 1 million users and empower your home with better privacy, choice and sustainability.
Compatible with: Airthings, Amazon Alexa, Amcrest, Android TVs, Apple HomeKit, Apple TV, ASUSWRT, August, Belink WeMo, Bluetooth, Bose SoundTouch, Broadlink, BTHome, deCONZ, Denon, Devolo, DLNA, Ecobee, Ecovacs, Ecowitt, Elgato, EZVIZ, Fritz, Fully Kiosk, GoodWe, Google Assistant, Google Cast, Google Home, Google Nest, Govee, Growatt, Hikvision, Hive, Home Connect, Homematic, HomeWizard, Honeywell, iCloud, IFTTT, IKEA Tradfri, Insteon, Jellyfin, LG Smart TVs, LIFX, Logitech Harmony, Lutron Caseta, Magic Home, Matter, MotionEye, MQTT, MusicCast, Nanoleaf, Netatmo, Nuki, OctoPrint, ONVIF, Opower, Overkiz, OwnTracks, Panasonic Viera, Philips Hue, Pi-hole, Plex, Reolink, Ring, Roborock, Roku, Samsung TVs, Sense, Sensiba, Shelly, SmartThings, SolarEdge, Sonarr, Sonos, Sony Bravia, Spotify, Steam, SwitchBot, Synology, Tado, Tasmota, Tesla Wall, Thread, Tile, TP-Link Smart Home, Tuya, UniFi, UPnP, Verisure, Vizio, Wallbox, WebRTC, WiZ, WLED, Xbox, Xiaomi BLE, Yale, Yeelight, YoLink, Z-Wave, Zigbe
What’s New
Version 2024.12.1
Revert change where App did not fallback to internal URL
Ratings and Reviews
Great app except for two small issues
This is a great app! The interface is precisely the same as you would get when working with the web version which is nice, however, because it’s the same as the web version the “+” icon, used to add element or people or scenes,etc is under the apps “settings” icon so you can add anything to the configuration. Would be better to have the settings icon on the title bar. The other annoying thing is the connecting to external addresses, you need to remember to delete the default internal address from the address field before selecting external/remote UI. Both issues could easily be fixed.
I really want this to be good, but…
I had to give up using this app. Just sat in the background or even after being closed it kills the battery so hard I took my phone to the Apple Store! Dumb of me, I know, but I couldn’t imagine a single app could have such an impact on an iPhone 15 Pro Max!
More than just the battery hit, I’ve had to use Safari to use the Home Assistant dashboard because the app is slow it’s unusable: Switching from one dashboard to another using the side menu can take fifteen seconds, if it happens at all. I think my HA instance could be faster, which doesn’t help, but Safari doesn’t have this problem.
Also, I have two instances in the app but it doesn’t always start on the same instance. Which combined with the performance problems makes using the app even worse.
It could be a need to tune the app settings, but I’ve seen no guidance on what to do, and I shouldn’t have to anyway. Please keep working to make this app better.
Home Assistant infrastructure is amazing
It is frustrating that 40 years after X10 was launched the manufacturers still don’t understand that a walled garden or cloud approach to home automation is an implicit failure. Home Assistant is the antidote. It is a rapidly evolving open source system which doesn’t tie you to one company or the cloud. This App is a front end to that system. Your journey and a new fascinating hobby begins by buying a couple of interface devices (z-wave, Zigbee, Sonos audio, Sonoff, etc etc) then installing the free server software on a Mac, PC, or an embedded computer (eg Raspberry pi). This app comes later.
App Privacy
The developer, Nabu Casa, Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Nabu Casa, Inc
- Size
- 38.1 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 8.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2016-2024 The Home Assistant Authors
- Price
- Free