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Butler

Companion for Home Assistant Source

Description

Access your Home Assistant dashboard from a native companion UI, integrating better with your OS. Native features include:

  • Icon in your App Grid, Applications Menu, Dash, Dock, etc.
  • Native header bar
  • Save and restore current view and size when closed and re-opened
  • Two-finger swipe and mouse button support to go back/forward between views
  • Cross-desktop light/dark style support (if supported by your Lovelace theme)

Butler is designed to make getting at your Home Assistant dashboard easier for kiosks, your laptop/desktop, or your Linux phone. It does not support companion app features from Android and iOS like location services, notifications, or exposing device sensors.

Other features include:

  • Pinch-to-zoom
  • Set the scaling with Ctrl+Plus/Minus or Ctrl+0 to reset
  • Fullscreen from the menu, a keyboard shortcut, or a GSetting to better support kiosk use cases

Note WebRTC camera streams (i.e. used by some newer Nest cameras) are not currently supported.

Source

Project links: Links with more information: Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: maturing

This project has been in development for some time and is somewhere around a 1.0 release. It should work mostly fine.

Features

✔ Every feature of this app can be accessed via touch screen, no mouse or keyboard needed.

✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

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Packaging status

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Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/com.cassidyjames.butler.flatpakref

Build and install your own flatpak: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cassidyjames/butler/main/com.cassidyjames.butler.json

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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By Service: Home Assistant

By Category: smart home

By FreeDesktop-(Additional-)Category: Network Network

Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC-BY-SA-4.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Programming languages: Vala

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cassidyjames/butler/main/data/metainfo.xml