jimz011/android-hki7

{"i":0,"repo":"jimz011/android-hki7","stars":3,"lang":"Kotlin","ok":true,"char_count":1528,"text":"HKI 7 is an Android app that acts as a companion for Home Assistant, a popular open source home automation platform. Home Assistant lets you control smart devices in your house from a central hub. This app gives you another way to interact with that hub from your Android phone, with an interface designed around modern Android visual standards. The project is currently in beta, so the developer expects bugs and welcomes feedback.\n\nThe app focuses on making your smart home easier to manage on a phone. It can automatically import the dashboards you have already set up in Home Assistant, and it organizes devices by room. Each type of device, such as lights, thermostats, blinds, fans, locks, media players, vacuums, cameras, and alarms, gets its own tailored control panel. There are also dedicated screens for viewing climate, energy usage, security, vacuum activity, and battery status, giving you a quick overview of important categories.\n\nBeyond direct device control, the app offers home screen widgets for weather, calendars, media players, sensor graphs, markdown notes, parcels, and waste collection schedules. For location tracking, it uses an event driven approach with geofences instead of constantly following your movements, which helps preserve battery life. The developer says this design aims to match the battery performance of the official Home Assistant app.\n\nTo use the app, you need a phone running Android 14 or later and a Home Assistant instance you can reach, whether through a local network address, a remote URL, or a paid Nabu Casa cloud relay. The project is built using Kotlin with Jetpack Compose and Material 3, which are modern Google tools for creating Android interfaces. Developers can open the project in Android Studio or build it from a command line tool.\n\nThe code in this repository is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, an open source license, while certain premium assets remain proprietary. The developer notes that AI tools, including Claude and OpenAI, were used to help create the project.","error":null}