u/jimzz011

Hi all,

I've been working on HKI 7, an alternative Home Assistant client for Android, and after months of sleepless nights version 1.0 is now available on Google Play (link below).

HKI 7 is built with Jetpack Compose and Material 3 and connects directly to your own Home Assistant instance. There are no developer servers involved, and no analytics, ads or tracking.

Some of the things currently included:

• Custom dashboards with rooms, buttons, badges and popups
• Automatic dashboard creation from your existing HA setup
• Dedicated controls for lights, climate, covers, media players, vacuums, alarms, cameras, etc.
• Climate, energy, security, vacuum and battery screens
• Live camera streams and Valetudo maps
• Weather, calendar, graphs, media, parcels, waste collection, to-do and many other widgets
• Home Assistant push notifications, including notification actions
• Event timeline based on the HA logbook
• Multiple Home Assistant servers
• Optional location/presence reporting
• Optional family dashboard sharing and parental controls
• 13 languages

There's also a built-in demo home, so you can have a look around without connecting it to Home Assistant first.

Google Play:
Get HKI 7 on Google Play

Documentation:
Find out exactly how HKI 7 works and how to configure it

GitHub:
Check out the open source code on Github

HA Community thread:
See screenshots/development and ask questions via the HA Forums

Please share your feedback with me as the app is new and was only tested with a select number of people.

I hope this app is going to be useful for some people. Enjoy the summer everyone!

Regards,

Jimz011

NOTE: If you like the design, but don't want to run a separate Android app (or you have iOS), then you could check out HKI Elements instead from HACS.

Hi all, my last post unfortunately got removed as it was suspected that the post was made by AI. That was not the case (though even my wife thinks I speak like AI 😂).

I have made an Android companion for Home Assistant that is able to auto generate a complete dashboard for your convenience. You only need to set up areas in Home Assistant (and obviously setup your devices) and the app will try to build a complete dashboard for you.

The app is made for fun and will be released to the Play Store soon. There is a closed test currently ongoing and you can opt-in by sending me a DM with your Google email address so I can add you to the testers list. All feedback is welcome

Because there are too much features to mention I will post the details below, the code is open source and can be found on github.

## Home Assistant Community Post
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/hki-7-a-highly-customizable-android-companion-that-automatically-builds-the-ui-for-you/1017467

## Github
https://github.com/jimz011/android-hki7

*Disclaimer: This project is created with help from AI-assisted development tools. I know we live in a world where there is much AI-slop. But I actually want to show you that AI can also be used to create something good and not just stupid video's, cheap apps or dumb images. If you disagree with this, then do not install this app.