QuickBars for Home Assistant

Trooped

About this app

Bring your smart home to the big screen. QuickBars for Home Assistant puts fast, beautiful controls on Android/Google TV so you can toggle lights, adjust climate, run scripts, and more—without leaving what you’re watching.

What it does

• Instant overlays (QuickBars): Launch an interactive sidebar over any app for tap-fast control of your favorite Home Assistant entities.
• Remote key actions: Map single, double, and long-press on your TV remote to open a QuickBar, toggle an entity, or launch another app.
• Camera PIP: Import your MJPEG streams and display them as PIP.
• Deep customization: Choose entities, icons, names, order, colors, and more to tailor the experience.
• TV-first UX: Built for Android/Google TV with smooth animations and a clean, couch-friendly layout.
• Launch a QuickBar or PIP from Home Assistant: Requires persistent background connection enabled, allows you to launch a camera PIP or a QuickBar based on an Home Assistant automation!
• Backup & Restore: Backup your Entities, QuickBars and Trigger keys manually and restore them, even to a different TV!

Private & secure

• Local connection: Connect directly to your Home Assistant using IP + a Long-Lived Access Token (optional remote access via HTTPS).
• Hardware-backed encryption: Your credentials are encrypted and stored locally; they never leave the device except to communicate with Home Assistant.
• Clear permission prompts for Accessibility (to capture remote button presses) and Display over other apps (to show overlays).

Easy setup

• Guided onboarding: Where to find your Home Assistant URL and how to create a token.
• QR Token Transfer: Scan a QR code and paste your token from your phone—no tedious typing on TV.

Entity management

• Import the entities you care about, rename them with friendly names, choose icons, customize single/long-press actions, and reorder freely.
• Automatically flags orphaned entities that were removed from Home Assistant.

Free vs Plus

• Free: 1 QuickBar & 1 Trigger Key. Full styling options. Full single/double/long-press support.
• Plus (one-time purchase): Unlimited QuickBars & Trigger Keys, plus advanced layouts:
• Position QuickBars at Top / Bottom / Left / Right of the screen
• For left/right positions, choose 1-column or 2-column grid

Requirements

• A running Home Assistant instance (local or reachable via HTTPS).
• Android/Google TV device.
• Permissions: Accessibility (for remote key capture) and Display over other apps.

Take control of your home from the couch. Download QuickBars for Home Assistant and make your TV the smartest remote you own.

QuickBars for Home Assistant is an independent project and is not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation.

Ratings and reviews

This app fulfills a very specific niche remarkably well! I'm not sure if you're considering new features, but it would be amazing to launch webviews because then we could view Home Assistant dashboards on a big screen

The dev has been really responsive to feedback, and the app just keeps getting better. Hope it continues,props to the dev!

This is such a good idea and even better execution. Love it!

What’s new

QuickBars v1.2!

- Media Players: Control playback, volume, and power directly from your QuickBar.
- Trigger Keys: Now control locks, covers, climate & fans. Enjoy a much-improved experience with instant long-press and an easier way to close QuickBars.
- UI polishes and MANY bug fixes for a smoother, more reliable experience.

For full release notes, go to trooped.dev/quickbars/release-notes