Project Case Study
Omarchy Home Assistant HUD
A clean, distraction-free Home Assistant controller bar widget and interactive popup dashboard for Omarchy with room grouping, entity discovery, and device controls.
qml python home-assistant iot hyprland omarchy
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Distraction-Free Smart Home Control for the Desktop
Omarchy Home Assistant HUD is a native bar widget and interactive popup dashboard built for Omarchy using Quickshell and QML. It connects directly to a Home Assistant instance to provide seamless, single-click control over smart home devices without requiring a browser window.
Key Architecture & Highlights
- Multiple Dynamic Views:
- Dense 3-Column Collage Board: Space-filling card grid providing maximum information density.
- By Room / Area: Automatically organized according to Home Assistant Areas (Living Room, Kitchen, Office, etc.) with active entity counters.
- By Domain / Type: Categorized by device classes (Lights, Switches, Climate, Covers, Sensors, Scenes).
- Comprehensive Device Controls:
- Lights: Real-time state toggling, glow indicators, and expandable brightness sliders (0–100%).
- Switches & Plugs: Instant binary toggles.
- Climate & Thermostats: Live ambient temperature readings with quick setpoint adjustments (
[-]/[+]). - Covers & Locks: Open, Stop, Close buttons for garage doors/blinds, and 1-click lock toggling.
- Scenes & Scripts: Single-click trigger execution.
- Sensors: Real-time telemetry (power consumption, temperature, humidity, battery levels).
- Live Entity Discovery:
- Built-in search and discovery browser to add entities directly into curated dashboard boards.
- Direct paste support for Home Assistant entity IDs.
- IPC & Window Manager Integration:
- Native IPC binding support for Hyprland key shortcuts (
omarchy-shell susamn.homeassistant toggle).
- Native IPC binding support for Hyprland key shortcuts (