Home Automation

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


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