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Jun 20 - Jun 26, 2022

Custom Integrations / Alternative Dashboards

• The Watchman (⭐149) - Keep track of missing entities and services in your config files.

Jun 13 - Jun 19, 2022

Installing

• Home Assistant Installation - The official installation guides.

• Compare Installation Methods - The available installation methods compared.

In case you need help / Other Communities

• 🇳🇱 Dutch Domotics Discord - Dutch Discord server with home automation enthusiasts.

Public Configurations / Other Communities

• Klaas Schoute (⭐135) - Hass.io based, Intel NUC, Ubuntu Server, Docker and regularly updated.

Add-ons / Third Party Add-ons

• JupyterLab (⭐38) - Create documents containing live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text.

• EmonCMS (⭐8) - A powerful open-source web app for processing, logging, and visualizing energy, temperature, and other environmental data.

• CrowdSec (⭐18) - A next-gen collaborative IPS/IDS to protect you from intrusion.

Dashboards / Third Party Add-ons

• Dashboards Documentation - The official documentation.

Dashboards / Icon packs

• Hass Hue Icons (⭐183) - Additional Philips Hue bulbs and fixtures icons.

• simpleicons (⭐79) - Use the free icons from the simpleicons set.

Dashboards / Custom Cards

• Card Modder (⭐558) - Style your Lovelace cards.

• Atomic Calendar Revive (⭐214) - Calendar card with advanced settings.

• Vacuum Map Card (⭐937) - This card provides a user-friendly way to fully control Xiaomi (Roborock/Viomi/Dreame/Roidmi) and Neato (+ possibly other) vacuums.

• Raspberry Pi Status Card (⭐95) - Show status of your Raspberry Pis.

Dashboards / Alternative Dashboards

• Dwains Dashboard (⭐1.2k) - An fully auto-generating dashboard for desktop, tablet and mobile.

Custom Integrations / Alternative Dashboards

• HACS - This is a manager for your custom integration (components) and plugin (lovelace elements) needs.

• Xiaomi Cloud Map Extractor (⭐810) - Presents a live view of a map for Xiaomi (Roborock/Viomi/Roidmi/Dreame) vacuums without a need for rooting.

• WebRTC Camera (⭐684) - View RTSP streams from IP Cameras in real-time through WebRTC or MSE with Pan/Zoom controls.

• Sonoff LAN (⭐1.8k) - Control Sonoff devices with eWeLink (original) firmware over LAN and/or Cloud.

• Spotcast (⭐440) - Start Spotify playback on an idle Chromecast device as well as control Spotify connect devices.

DIY / Alternative Dashboards

• Tasmota (⭐19k) - Firmware for ESP8266 boards and devices.

Online Resources / YouTube Channels

• Home Assistant - Official YouTube Channel where new launches and live streams are held.

• Everything Smart Home - Focuses on Smart Home, Home Automation, general tech reviews, guides, and step-by-step DIY projects.

Other Awesome Lists / Twitter

• awesome-selfhosted (⭐106k) - Curated list of awesome self hosted software.

Jun 06 - Jun 12, 2022

Dashboards / Custom Cards

• Vacuum Card (⭐611) - A card to card for controlling a vacuum cleaner robot.

• Purifier Card (⭐165) - A card for controlling air purifiers.

Jul 12 - Jul 18, 2021

Uncategorized / Twitter

• Home Assistant Taskbar Menu (⭐266) - A client for Windows that can display Lovelace views, control entities and show persistent notifications.

Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020

Dashboards / Themes

• 📺 Themes Tutorial - Quick tutorial/example on how to configure themes.

Dashboards / Custom Cards

• Thermostat Card (⭐671) - Thermostat control card that looks like a Nest Thermostat.

Nov 30 - Dec 06, 2020

Online Resources / YouTube Channels

• Smart Home Junkie - How-to videos and tutorials for starters and advanced users.

Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2020

Uncategorized / Twitter

• rhasspy (⭐1.2k) - Toolkit for developing custom voice assistants.

Oct 26 - Nov 01, 2020

Dashboards / Custom Cards

• Big Number Card (⭐91) - Display big numbers for sensors, including severity level as background.

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2020

Dashboards / Custom Cards

• Restriction Card (⭐161) - A card to provide restrictions on Lovelace cards defined within.

Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020

Add-ons / Third Party Add-ons

• AppDaemon (⭐84) - Python Apps and HADashboard.

Uncategorized / Twitter

• AppDaemon (⭐689) - AppDaemon is a loosely coupled, multi-threaded, sandboxed Python execution environment for writing automation apps.

Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2020

In case you need help / Official Communities

• Home Assistant Facebook Group - Facebook group for enthusiasts.

In case you need help / Other Communities

• Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord - Get support on the Home Assistant Community Add-ons.

Public Configurations / Other Communities

• Andrea Iannucci (⭐61) - Also known as SeLLeRoNe. Regularly updated.

Add-ons / Official Add-ons

• DuckDNS (⭐1k) - Updates your Duck DNS IP address and generate SSL using Let's Encrypt.

• File editor (⭐1k) - Browser-based configuration file editor.

• Mosquitto (⭐1k) - Fast and reliable MQTT broker.

• Terminal & SSH (⭐1k) - Allows logging in remotely to using a web terminal or SSH client.

• Samba (⭐1k) - Access your configuration files using Windows network shares.

• NGINX SSL proxy (⭐1k) - Reverse proxy with SSL termination.

• deCONZ (⭐1k) - Control a ZigBee network using ConBee or RaspBee hardware by Dresden Elektronik.

• TellStick (⭐1k) - Run a TellStick and TellStick Duo service.

• Ada (⭐1k) - Ada is voice assistant powered by Almond which is open and privacy-preserving.

• Almond (⭐1k) - The Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant.

• HomeMatic (⭐1k) - HomeMatic central based on OCCU.

• Let's Encrypt (⭐1k) - Get a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt; an open and automated certificate authority (CA).

• MariaDB (⭐1k) - An open source relational database (fork of MySQL).

Dashboards / Custom Cards

• Auto-Entities Card (⭐717) - Dynamically adds entities: 🔮 Magic.

• Animated Weather Card (⭐342) - Nice looking card showing the weather, with subtle animations.

• LG WebOS Remote Control (⭐242) - Remote Control for LG TV WebOS.

DIY / DIY Projects

• QuinLED - DIY Wi-Fi LED dimmers and controllers using ESP32 boards.

Nov 25 - Dec 01, 2019

Dashboards / Custom Cards

• RGB Light Card (⭐323) - Colorful buttons to control your RGB Lights.

Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019

Online Resources / YouTube Channels

• BeardedTinker - Tutorials & 3D printing.

Nov 04 - Nov 10, 2019

Dashboards / Themes

• Google Home Theme (⭐105) - Two themes (light and dark) matching the design of Google Home Hub.

Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2019

Dashboards / Themes

• Synthwave (⭐134) - A theme influenced by the cover artwork of modern Synthwave bands.

Oct 07 - Oct 13, 2019

Dashboards / Themes

• Slate (⭐86) - A dark theme close to the vanila looks from seangreen2.

Sep 30 - Oct 06, 2019

In case you need help / Official Communities

• Home Assistant Discord - Join the chat, most of us are there.

• Home Assistant Community - The discussion forum, also used for feature requests.

• Home Assistant Subreddit - If you are into Reddit, subscribe.

In case you need help / Other Communities

• Dr. ZZs - Facebook group by Dr. Zzs.

• ESPHome Discord - Get support for your DIY ESPHome project.

Public Configurations / Other Communities

• Carlo Costanzo (⭐4.1k) - Probably the most documented configuration out there.

• DubhAd (⭐448) - Also known as Tinkerer shares his configuration files.

• geekofweek (⭐1.1k) - Has over 300+ automations.

• Mahasri Kalavala (⭐193) - Impressive setup, with lots of different hardware working together.

• Alok Saboo (⭐1.6k) - Also known as arsaboo. Regularly updated.

• Aaron Bach (⭐254) - Also known as bachya. Regularly updated and includes numerous Dockerized services.

• Franck Nijhof (⭐1.5k) - Hass.io based, very different configuration structure compared to others.

Add-ons / Third Party Add-ons

• SSH & Web Terminal (⭐195) - SSH and Web-based terminal with tons of pre-loaded useful tools.

• UniFi Controller (⭐182) - The UniFi Controller allows you to manage your UniFi network using a web browser.

• Node-RED (⭐348) - Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things.

• Plex Media Server (⭐96) - Your recorded media beautifully organized and ready to stream.

• IDE (⭐61) - Advanced web-based IDE, based on Cloud9 IDE.

• Dasshio (⭐165) - Easily use your Amazon Dash Buttons.

• InfluxDB (⭐116) - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.

• Grafana (⭐159) - Open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring.

• Tor (⭐39) - Protect your privacy and access your instance via Tor.

• Spotify Connect (⭐109) - Spotify Connect client for playing music on your Home Assistant device.

• zigbee2mqtt (⭐559) - Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges.

• TasmoAdmin (⭐188) - Centrally manage all your Sonoff-Tasmota devices.

• Aircast (⭐219) - AirPlay capabilities for your Chromecast players.

• AirSonos (⭐57) - AirPlay capabilities for your Sonos players.

• Dropbox Sync (⭐106) - Upload your backup snapshots to Dropbox.

• Log Viewer (⭐35) - Browser-based live log viewing utility.

• Tautulli (⭐34) - Monitor and get statistics from your Plex server.

• motionEye (⭐200) - Simple, elegant and feature-rich CCTV/NVR for your cameras.

• Backup to Google Drive (⭐86) - Backup snapshots to Google Drive.

• Glances (⭐87) - A cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.

• Matrix (⭐47) - A secure and decentralized communication platform.

• AdGuard Home (⭐257) - A network-wide ad-and-tracker blocking DNS server with parental control.

• Traccar (⭐75) - Traccar is modern GPS Tracking Platform.

• Home Panel (⭐172) - A touch-compatible web frontend for controlling the home.

• Hass.io Google Drive Backup (⭐2.1k) - A complete and easy to configure solution for backing up your snapshots to Google Drive.

• Grocy (⭐189) - ERP beyond your fridge! A groceries & household management solution for your home.

Dashboards / Third Party Add-ons

• 📺 Getting started with Lovelace UI - Great introduction to Lovelace UI by DrZzs.

• Share the Love - Custom card demos and configuration examples for Lovelace.

• 📺 How to set up Lovelace - Excellent step by step video for beginners by JuanMTech.

Dashboards / Icon packs

• Font Awesome Icons (⭐186) - Use the free icons from Font Awesome in your frontend.

Dashboards / 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.

• Many Themes, One Repo (⭐190) - 13 Themes in a convenient ZIP file.

Dashboards / Custom Cards

• Canvas Gauge Card (⭐110) - Use awesome gauges from canvas-gauges.com.

• Mini Media Player (⭐1.2k) - A minimalistic media player card.

• Mini Graph Card (⭐2.1k) - A minimalistic sensor graph card.

• Button card (⭐1.2k) - Button card for your entities.

• Slider Entity Row (⭐668) - Add a slider to adjust, e.g., the brightness of lights in lovelace entity cards.

• Power Wheel Card (⭐140) - An intuitive way to represent the power that your home is consuming or producing.

• Simple Thermostat (⭐580) - A simpler and more flexible thermostat card.

• Bar Card (⭐254) - Customizable animated bar card.

• forked-daapd Card (⭐74) - Control a forked daapd instance.

• Dual Gauge Card (⭐120) - Shows two gauges in one.

• Xiaomi Vacuum Card (⭐216) - Detailed card for Xiaomi vacuum cleaners (and others).

• Simple Weather Card (⭐199) - A minimalistic weather card, inspired by Google Material Design.

• Home Card (⭐155) - A quick glance of the state of your home.

• Banner Card (⭐488) - A fluffy linkable banner with interactive glances to spice up your home dashboards.

• Spotify Card (⭐266) - List and select from current available devices and users top playlists on Spotify.

• Battery Entity (⭐172) - Displaying battery levels for battery entities.

• Multiple Entity Row (⭐533) - Show multiple entity states or attributes on entity rows.

• Home Feed Card (⭐178) - Display a combination of persistent notifications, calendar events, and entities in the style of a feed.

• Config Template Card (⭐282) - Allow using templates in Lovelace.

Dashboards / Alternative Dashboards

• TileBoard (⭐1.5k) - A simple yet highly configurable Dashboard.

Custom Integrations / Alternative Dashboards

• Lutron Caseta Pro (⭐178) - Integrates Lutron Caseta Smart Bridge PRO / RA2 Select.

• SmartIR (⭐1.3k) - Integrates devices using Broadlink IR.

• Xiaomi Hygrothermo (⭐83) - Sensor platform for Xiaomi Mijia BT Hygrothermo temperature and humidity sensor.

• Volkswagen Carnet (⭐186) - Integrates Volkswagen Carnet (requires valid Carnet subscription).

• Untappd (⭐34) - Connects with your Untappd account.

• Elasticsearch (⭐102) - Publishes events to Elasticsearch.

• Alexa Media Player (⭐950) - Allow control of Amazon Alexa devices.

• iCloud3 (⭐292) - Improved version of the iCloud device tracker component with a lot of capabilities.

• Circadian Lighting (⭐537) - Circadian Lighting slowly synchronizes your color changing lights with the regular naturally occuring color temperature of the sky throughout the day.

• HASS Aarlo (⭐270) - Asynchronous Arlo integration. Similar to the Arlo web site; monitors events and states for all base stations, cameras and doorbells.

DIY / Alternative Dashboards

• ESPHome - Program ESP8266 boards and ESP32 boards using YAML.

• Magic Cards (⭐474) - RFID scannable cards that you can program to do anything.

DIY / DIY Gateways

• OpenMQTTGateway (⭐2.7k) - A flexible MQTT gateway for IR, RF, BLE, MiFlora, SMS, and many sensors.

• esp8266 Milight Hub (⭐818) - Alternative hub for Milight/LimitlessLED devices that uses MQTT.

• zigbee2mqtt (⭐8.6k) - Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges.

DIY / DIY Projects

• HA SwitchPlate - LCD Touchscreen wall switch replacement.

• 📺 DIY Multisensor - $15, Temperature, Humidity, Light, Motion, and RGB LED, without soldering.

• $10 WiFi RGB Bulb - In 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.

• ESP MQTT Digital LEDs (⭐513) - WS2811 LED Stripe for the JSON Light Component from BRUH.

• Bed Presence Detection - ESP8266 based Bed Presence Detection.

• NFC Scanner (⭐55) - Build an NFC tag/card scanner with an ESP8266, PN532 and MQTT.

• ESP32-Cam Facebox - Tie a ESP32-CAM, HA, and Facebox together for a cheap Facial Recog / Home monitoring solution.

• RaspiPool (⭐302) - A cost-effective, easy-to-build, easy-to-use "Swimming-Pool Automation System".

Online Resources / Blogs

• DIY Futurism - Brad posts articles with great instructions for new users.

• Phil Hawthorne - Co-host of the Home Assistant Podcast.

• 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.

• HomeTechHacker - DIY Smarthome guides, reviews, and advice.

• Intermittent Technology - Quindor's personal blog for pasting random (mostly technology related) things.

Online Resources / YouTube Channels

• BRUH - Ben has great tutorials for getting started, unfortunately, inactive lately.

• BurnsHA - Great informational and tutorial videos.

• DrZzs - Great how-to videos and also streams live.

• The Hook Up - Tutorials and more, also has videos on home automation in general.

• HASSCASTS - Tips, Tricks & Tutorials, moving to mainly live streams.

• JuanMTech - Easy to follow how-to videos, product reviews and more.

• vCloudInfo - Publishes videos based on his home and GitHub repository.

• digiblurDIY - Tutorials on hardware projects and Tasmota automations.

• Intermit.Tech - Tutorials & reviews: Camera's, Home Networking, ESP8266 boards, Node-RED.

Online Resources / Podcasts

• Home Assistant Podcast - Biweekly podcast with the latest news and interesting guests.

Online Resources / Twitter

• @home_assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

• @hass_devs - Latest news on the development of Home Assistant for contributors.

• @balloob - Founder of the Home Assistant project.

• @pvizeli - Core developer and creator of the Hass.io project.

• @frenck - Creator of this Awesome list and maintainer of the Community Hass.io Add-ons project.

• @ccostan - Blogger of all things Tech. Smart Home, #IOT & other Geeky subjects.

• @HomeTechHacker - Guy friends call when #tech happens. Tweet 25-50x/week about #smarthome, #homenetwork, #cybersecurity, #Linux, #gadgets, and #life.

• @hassioaddons - For all commmunity add-on news and updates.

• @Dr_Zzs - Great how-to videos and also streams live.

Uncategorized / Twitter

• Room Assistant (⭐1.1k) - A companion client to handle sensors in multiple rooms.

• Home Assistant Companion - iPhone/iPad/iOS App to control and monitor your home remotely.

• Mi Flora via MQTT daemon (⭐532) - Collect and transfer Xiaomi Mi Flora plant sensor data via MQTT.

• hassctl (⭐79) - Simple command line utility to help debug your configuration.

• Fully Kiosk Browser - Highly configurable Android Kiosk Browser and App Launcher.

• Developer Documentation - The official developer documentation.

• HASS Configurator (⭐259) - Browser-based configuration file editor.

• HA-Dockermon (⭐215) - A Node.js service for RESTful switches to control Docker containers.

• Python Amazon Dash (⭐766) - Hack your Amazon Dash to run what you want. Without welders.

• homekit2mqtt (⭐316) - HomeKit to MQTT bridge.

• Home Assistant Device Database - Database of supported/confirmed working devices.

• Jinja Scripts for Curious Minds (⭐193) - Bunch of Jinja2 scripts helping you to understand it better.

• Ariela - Freemium Android client application with widget support.

• Gitlab CI/CD - How to simplify your smart home configuration with GitLab CI/CD.

• Monitor (⭐1.4k) - Distributed advertisement-based BTLE presence detection reported via MQTT.

• HASS-data-detective (⭐145) - Explore and analyse your database data.

• 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 editting your configuration.

Alternative Home Automation Software / Twitter

• openHAB - Java-based and aims at being a universal integration platform.

• Domoticz (⭐3.2k) - A lightweight Home Automation System.

• Gladys (⭐2.2k) - Open source program which runs on your Raspberry Pi.

• SmartThings - Commercial home automation hub by Samsung.

Other Awesome Lists / Twitter

• awesome-smarthome (⭐369) - Curated list of awesome SmartHome/Home Automation things.

• awesome-iot (⭐2.6k) - Curated list of awesome Internet of Things projects and resources.

• awesome-open-iot (⭐539) - Curated list of open source IoT frameworks, libraries and software.

• awesome-amazon-alexa (⭐521) - Curated list of awesome resources for the Amazon Alexa platform.

• awesome-mqtt (⭐1.8k) - Curated list of MQTT related stuff.