Butler – companion for Home Assistant

Butler is a hybrid native and web app for Home Assistant. Butler is designed and developed on and for GNOME.

Butler wraps your Home Assistant dashboard up in a native UI, integrating better with your OS.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Icon in your App Grid, Applications Menu, Dash, Dock, etc.
• Native header bar
• Save and restore current view and size when closed and re-opened
• Two-finger swipe and mouse button support to go back/forward between views
• Cross-desktop light/dark style support for GNOME, elementary OS, etc.
• Other features:
  • Pinch-to-zoom.
  • Set the scaling with Ctrl+Plus/Minus or Ctrl+0 to reset.

Website: github.com/cassidyjames/butler
Support:
Developer: Cassidy James Blaede
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Butler is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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