Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Automatically back up your Home Assistant instance to end-to-end encrypted Proton Drive on a daily schedule.
Replace a Google Drive backup setup with a privacy-focused Proton Drive alternative without reconfiguring the backup schedule.
Keep generational backups so recent copies are retained in full while older ones thin out automatically.
| ashishdevasia/ha-proton-drive-backup | bro77xp/beginner-friendly-ai-vtuber | da7-tech/mind | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Language | Python | Python | Python |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | hard | easy |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | ops devops | general | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires a Proton Drive account and Home Assistant running on aarch64 or amd64 hardware.
This is a Home Assistant add-on that automatically backs up your Home Assistant instance to Proton Drive. Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service from Proton, the company behind ProtonMail. If you already use Home Assistant to manage smart home devices and want your backups stored in a privacy-focused cloud rather than Google Drive, this add-on handles that. The add-on is a port of the well-known Home Assistant Google Drive Backup add-on. The scheduling, retention, and generational backup logic is carried over unchanged. Generational backup means you keep more recent backups and fewer older ones automatically, so you do not have to manage retention by hand. Only the storage destination has been changed from Google Drive to Proton Drive. Because Proton Drive has no public API, the add-on uses Proton's official command-line tool, which it bundles inside. Authentication is done through an interactive browser login rather than an automated flow. Each backup also saves a small metadata file alongside the backup archive in Proton Drive, since there is no API for storing file properties directly. Installation takes about four steps: add the repository URL to your Home Assistant add-on store, install the add-on, start it, and sign in to your Proton account through the web interface the add-on provides. It supports aarch64 and amd64 hardware, which covers most Home Assistant setups including standard Raspberry Pi devices and x86 machines. The project is unofficial and not affiliated with Proton AG. It is licensed under MIT.
A Home Assistant add-on that automatically backs up your smart home data to Proton Drive on a schedule, with the same generational retention logic as the popular Google Drive Backup add-on.
Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Home Assistant, Docker.
Use, modify, and distribute freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice (MIT).
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly ops devops.
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