Home Assistant

Home Assistant

About this app

The official app for Home Assistant. Home Assistant for Android lets you control all your devices in your Home Assistant instance.

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that focuses on privacy and local control.

Home Assistant for Android requires that you have access to a Home Assistant instance.

With the Companion app you are able to integrate Home Assistant with many of Androids features such as:

- Device Controls
- Notifications
- Quick Setting Tiles
- Shortcuts
- Sensors
- Widgets

For documentation around the application please see https://companion.home-assistant.io/

There is a Wear OS app with features such as:

- Notifications
- Sensors
- Tiles
- Watchface Complications

Android Auto support has also been added with features such as:

- See and control devices
- Navigate to any user or location

Ratings and reviews

I have a metric ton of problems, most importantly that I'm unable to connect my home like 15% of the time. (Only the UI is broken, automations work just fine.) There's also the fact that the UX is extremely lacking and basically unusably inconvenient on PC, and barely functional on mobile. It's missing a lot of gestures that are base functionality for any android app, for example. And it also has major issues. It refuses to open elements indented multiple levels in Vertical/Horizontal stacks...

Version 2023.10.2 is incredibly slow to load, requiring tens of seconds to load a complete dashboard, entity historical data, or lists of items (automations, entities, integrations). Numerous times I've seen the "trouble loading" dialog pop up when opening the app. Making matters worse is that this data doesn't seem to be cached very long, so the long loading is required each time I pick up my phone to check something or toggle an entity. Didn't have this problem with the previous app version

Quite simply the best open source project I've ever come across. It is well worth investing the extra effort to use this as it is a work of technical art. Everything is rock solid, including the apps and it can do a lot more than just automate your home. Your imagination is the limit.

What's new

Full release change log: https://github.com/home-assistant/android/releases/latest