Home Assistant for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By ihatethatineedanicknameforthis

  Best smart home software

  Home Assistant is awesome, the best smart home software I’ve used for sure. It’s not the easiest to use sometimes, it does take some homework, but it is the most powerful. I love that it’s all self-hosted, I don’t have to worry about any information or communication in the cloud. There are so many integrations available that it surprises me sometimes. This app is great, it functions like you would expect this app to, as an extension of any other interface for the software. I can’t recommend this app enough, and Home Assistant in general if you dedicate the time to it.

  
  
• By SynthGP

  Can’t believe that I waited so long!

  For anyone who is considering getting into home automation or is already into automating their home, please consider using Home Automation. I made the switch about 2 weeks ago, and it is the best platform available. Not only is it open source, the user community is strong, and you are not beholden to Samsung, Google, HomeKit, though there are integrations to each if needed. Keeping all of your data locally resolve privacy concerns, and significantly speeds up response time. I’ve made the switch and have no plans on looking back!

  
  
• By Nick3578554323

  Outstanding!

  A great app for Home Assistant. Design your interface on the computer with either the included buttons or get free addons to customize your experience further. Keeps it easy for beginners or advanced features for more tech-savvy types. My biggest gripe with other smart home hubs like SmartThings are that I can’t change change the UI and unable to see all my sensors on one page. With the Home Assistant app, I was able to create custom buttons and display everything on the same page for an instant status of my house.

  
  
• By Dragonsmoke6

  Its been a long time since I’ve yeeted my phone across the room

  I’m beyond ticked off with trying to edit automations from this app. As soon as I edit any field that opens the keyboard, the app and buttons are entirely mis-aligned with my touch input after the keyboard closes. It does the same thing in mobile firefox, even crashes the app or the mobile firefox tab when trying to navigate away from an automation after saving changes to it. Something is seriously bugged out with the mobile UI on the latest stable version of home assistant. Going to bed now but will post the issue on github when I have time. It took me 15 attempts to change 3 delay values and 3 scene transition times, because of the UI glitching out so bad when the keyboard closes.

  
  
• By GasDiver

  Fatal Crash at Startup

  A few weeks ago I edited the remote URL in the app configuration and I believe I may have had an error in the URL. The app has crashed immediately on startup ever since. Originally I was on iOS 14.6. I have since upgraded to the 14.7 beta, but the crashing persists. I tried every combination of deleting the HA app, reinstalling it and restart & hard reset of the device. I even tried wiping the phone completely and restoring it from a backup. Nothing has worked. Love the app, so I'm giving it 5 stars despite the issue, but hope to bring this to the developers attention. (temporarily changing my rating to 1 star in the hopes it will bring my rating to the developer's attention more quickly) Thanks

  
  

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