Home Assistant Desktop (macOS, Windows and Linux) - quick and easy access to HA

[DrSpaldo (Doctor Spalding)]

Not sure what’s wrong with me, but, it won’t even load in Windows 11 for me. It installs, I get the tray icon & desktop icon. I can see it is running in task manager, however, I never get any window pop up…

[ozrex75]

Me too. Still running Windows 10 and I’m getting the same issue.

[MrVestek (Steve Kay)]

Hey there!

This looks great, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to install it on my Linux Mint desktop.

I know that there’s a yml file there but when I try to get npm to install it I just get an error.

Would anybody be willing to give me a hand with this as I’m kinda stuck?

Thanks in advance.

[m4ha7m4]

@DrSpaldo

Not sure what’s wrong with me, but, it won’t even load in Windows 11 for me. It installs, I get the tray icon & desktop icon. I can see it is running in task manager, however, I never get any window pop up…

I had the same issue when my resolution was set to 4k. Once I switched to 1080p I could see the log-in page when clicking the icon!

[itjf (Johannes)]

what happened to the project?
can’t find it on github any more (https://github.com/mrvnklm/homeassistant-desktop)…

[SilverShadow91]

Worked perfectly on Windows 11. I loved having the Home Assistant dashboard on Windows. Reinstalled my OS, went to download this application again, and now the project doesn’t exist? What happened here?

[bergasha]

Looks like it’s dead, Any other desktop versions worth looking at?

[juan11perez (Juan)]

browser extension

Home Assistant

[damian5602]

PiotrMachowski/Home-Assistant-Taskbar-Menu: This application is a simple Home Assistant client for Windows. It can display Lovelace views, control entities and show persistent notifications. (github.com)

[SamKr]

For anyone looking for a Windows alternative, I’ve been developing one for the past months:

GitHub - LAB02-Research/HASS.Agent: Windows-based client for Home Assistant....

It’s pretty feature complete; commands, sensors, quickactions, notifications and a dashboard and mediaplayer (tts) coming in the next versions. You could have a look and see if it fits your requirement

There’s a forum topic on here as well:

HASS.Agent: Windows client to receive notifications, use commands, sensors, quick actions and more!

Hi everyone, After using Home Assistant for a few years and being very happy with it, I finally have something to share with the community! It’s a Windows-based application (companion app) that communicates with- and adds functionality to Home Assistant, called: HASS.Agent Help is wanted and very much needed for maintaining the code base, but also to help the community. Please read for more information: lab02-research.org/2023-04-01-help-wanted HASS.Agent is in need of your help!…

[e-raser]

I have no idea what happened to the original repository https://github.com/mrvnklm/homeassistant-desktop

@mrvnklm did you delete the whole project or what’s going? Why not locking it, allowing to fork so others can continue to maintain, or or or… plenty of options! Deleting FOSS projects is not that kind somehow Would be great to know the reason if possible. Thank you.

To all others: what’s a suitable successor of this great piece of software? Is @SamKr s (Home Assistant Desktop (macOS, Windows and Linux) - quick and easy access to HA - #51 by SamKr) working the same or totally different?

[SamKr]

It’s a lot more than homeassistant-desktop, but you can choose to just ignore the other functions and have it work the same yea:

[Rokanishu (Roki)]

Yup the original repo mrvnklm/homeassistant-desktop was definitely deleted or made private on @mrvnklm’s Github account. Can’t understand why someone would just up and nuke a project like this that so many people are clearly using and enjoying.
But yet he appears to have left v1.3.0 up under the repo MickRomanchenko/homeassistant-desktop??

For those looking for the download, version 1.4.0 from Dec 2020 is available on the wayback machine. This is the version I’m currently using on Windows and Mac.
All files for v1.4.0 appear to have working download links except for Source Code (zip)

Releases · mrvnklm/homeassistant-desktop

[runshotgun (Keven Menard)]

@Rokanishu

Can’t understand why someone would just up and nuke a project like this

I dealt with a lot of software engineers that do things like that.

[iprodanov (Ivan Prodanov)]

Hello guys,

I managed to find the latest source code for version 1.4.10 and built it for Mac, Linux & Windows and you can download them from here
I also updated a few packages to run under the latest Electron 20.0.3 release.

[monkeyismine]

Wow that’s awesome thanks man

[xvlw]

Thank you for this!

When I view the megafolder I unfortunately do not see a Windows file :

Am I missing it by chance?

[iprodanov (Ivan Prodanov)]

Hello,

Windows files is with name “Home Assistant Desktop v1.4.10 amd64.exe” for x64 processors and “Home Assistant Desktop v1.4.10 arm64.exe” for AMR processors

[xvlw]

Thank you!. So I did grab the right file originally, however I have this weird bug where I can install the app, its running in the bottom tray but when I double click it nothing happens, when I right click the icon in the tray the menu doesn’t pop up either.

It started on my previous install sometime after the repo was archived. I had logged out of the current session and when I went to relaunch the app it started doing this. Uninstalling and reinstalling with this version still seems to have the same issue. The app appears to be running but there is no UI or response from the tray icon.

So weird.

Really loved this little app

[iprodanov (Ivan Prodanov)]

Can you tell me what version of windows you are on because on my win 11 machine it works fine.
You can try right-clicking on the icon in the tray menu and select “Reset Application…” from the menu.

Also, when you uninstall the app, some config files are not removed from your machine and you can try to delete them from %appdata%\homeassistant-desktop and then try to launch the app again.