Status words follow the roadmap: Live runs daily in the author’s home, Built works but is less exercised, Experimental is off by default or needs extra pieces.
| Feature |
Idea |
Status |
| Home screen |
One room picture plus its controls. Or all rooms as tiles. |
Live |
| Rooms |
Rooms come from Home Assistant Areas. Rename, reorder, add devices in the app. |
Live |
| Devices |
Lights, switches, climate, fans, blinds, sensors, locks, vacuums and more. Each has a second level with everything it supports. |
Live |
| Scenes |
Bright, Cozy and Off per room, plus your own. Import scenes from Home Assistant. |
Live |
| Climate |
Room thermostat as a tile, one central control for the whole house. |
Live |
| Room pictures |
Every room has a picture in three lighting states. Upload your own or let the wizard draw one from a photo. |
Live / Built |
| Undo instead of confirm |
After “everything off” or a scene, a five-second Undo toast. |
Live |
| Feature |
Idea |
Status |
| Standby |
Clock, week strip, notes and shopping list when the panel rests. Optional street map and weather. |
Live |
| Calendar |
Home Assistant calendars as one sheet of paper. |
Built |
| Shopping list |
Home Assistant to-do lists, one per shop. Notion as an alternative. |
Built |
| Reminders and notes |
Sticky notes per person on a pinboard. |
Built |
| Energy |
Live load, solar and grid as notes pinned into a picture of your house. |
Live |
| Notifications |
Rules you configure, Home Assistant does the waiting. Laundry has a guided setup. |
Built |
| Windows and motion |
Contacts and detectors feed a status strip per room. |
Built |
| Presence and moments |
Greet the first person home, birthdays with confetti, the first snow. |
Built |
| Cameras |
Live HLS streams with still images as fallback, movable pop-outs. |
Built |
| Media |
Room audio through Home Assistant players, Jellyfin library with playback. |
Live (Jellyfin), Experimental (room audio) |
| Documents |
PIN-gated Paperless-ngx search, preview and import. |
Built, disabled in the container (PIN needs a host keychain) |
| Feature |
Idea |
Status |
| Phone layout |
A one-handed layout with a floating bottom bar, not a squeezed panel. |
Live |
| Appearance |
Follows the sun by default. Five explicit states. Glass or standard cards. |
Live |
| Edit and use mode |
Lock configuration on a panel, optionally behind a PIN. |
Built |
| Languages |
German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish. |
Built |
| Hotel mode |
A panel as a guest surface for one holiday apartment. |
Experimental |
| Feature |
Idea |
Status |
| Home Assistant App |
Install from the app store, no token, no URL. |
Live |
| Docker Compose |
Versioned image, three volumes, backup and restore scripts. |
Built |
| Setup wizard |
Discovers Areas and entities, proposes rooms, activates a validated configuration. |
Live |
| Companion app pairing |
Pair a phone with a QR code. The app itself is a separate project. |
Experimental |
| Remote access |
Reach Hauser from outside through Tailscale, only for paired devices. |
Experimental |
A Lovelace card version, cloud accounts, telemetry, and paid tiers. See the roadmap.
