Hi everyone!
I wanted to share a small project I built to make my daily workflow a bit easier. I often found myself wanting to quickly toggle my office lights or check a sensor without pulling out my phone or keeping a HA dashboard tab open all day.
So, I built the Home Assistant Dock for Windows.
It’s a lightweight, transparent, frameless widget that sits on your Windows desktop and stays on top of other windows. It uses the REST API to give you instant control over your entities.
What it does:
- Quick Access: Toggle switches, lights, or view sensors with a single click right from your desktop.
- Non-Intrusive: It’s fully transparent and you can place it anywhere via drag-and-drop.
- Easy Config: Just right-click the dock to open a visual settings menu. You can customize opacity, colors, add/remove entities, and lock its position.
- Real-time Sync: It updates instantly when you click, and polls every few seconds to stay in sync if you change states from elsewhere.
How to use it: You don’t need to know Python to use it. I’ve compiled it into a standalone .exe. Just download it, run it, paste your HA URL and Long-Lived Access Token, and you’re good to go!
GitHub Repository & Download: Link to GitHub repo
It’s completely free and open-source. Feel free to check it out, and let me know if you have any feedback or feature suggestions. Hope someone else finds it as useful as I do!
NOTE: This is a dock app, you can add stuff like, reading temperatures, toggle buttons, etc.
You can also support me on Patreon: Link to Patreon
Cheers!