PiotrMachowski / Home-Assistant-Taskbar-Menu

This application is a simple Home Assistant client for Windows. It can display Lovelace views, control entities and show persistent notifications.
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Home Assistant Taskbar Menu

This application is a simple Home Assistant client for Windows. It can control entities from supported domains, display Home Assistant web interface, create shortcuts to your favourite actions and mirror persistent notifications.

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Installation

Download installer from the latest release.

If you do not have administrator rights you can download archive file and extract it in a desired location.

Configuration

Connection

A configuration window will be opened at first run. Provide an URL and token, check the configuration and save it.

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After successful configuration a config_credentials.dat file will be created and an icon in notification tray will appear.

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Application

This application can control entities from following domains:

By default menu contains first 100 supported entities except automations and scripts, ordered alphabetically by entity id.

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To configure this list use option Configure HA Taskbar Menu.

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To add entries to view use buttons from the first row:

To add entries to folder click on it with right mouse button and select an option. To remove any entry from tree click on it with right mouse button and select Delete.

In the second row of buttons you can configure other application features:

Usage

Shortcuts

You can use this application to create shortcuts to your favourite service calls (e.g. toggle light).

Updating

To update the application to newer version you just have to use the latest installer.

Migration from v1.0.X.X

To use configuration from older version of application copy config.dat and viewConfig.dat to config directory (default: %APPDATA%\Home Assistant Taskbar Menu\Home Assistant Taskbar Menu). It is created after a first start of application.

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