HKI 7¶

HKI 7

A modern Home Assistant client for Android, built with Jetpack Compose and Material 3.

HKI 7 connects to your own Home Assistant server and nothing else — no developer servers, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. Haven't set one up yet? A built-in demo home runs without a server or an account. Running more than one Home Assistant? Connect to all of them.

New here?

Install the app, connect it to your server, and get a dashboard on screen in a few minutes.

Getting started
Learn the app

Dashboards, widgets, rooms, notifications, presence and family sharing, one topic at a time.

User guide
Something's wrong

Connection problems, missing notifications, presence that won't update, and other common fixes.

Troubleshooting
Quick answers

What HKI 7 is, what it needs, what it costs, and what it does with your data.

FAQ

What HKI 7 does¶

Dashboards you actually want to look at¶

HKI 7 reads your existing Home Assistant setup — areas, floors, devices and entities — and builds a first dashboard from it, then gets out of the way so you can rearrange it. Everything is editable: buttons, button stacks, badges and custom popups, each with its own layout, width, corner radius, icon and background. The complete Material Design Icons and Simple Icons sets are bundled as webfonts, so icons work with no network dependency.

Dashboards · Widgets

Controls for every domain¶

Lights, climate, covers, fans, locks, media players, vacuums, humidifiers, alarms and cameras each get a dedicated dialog rather than a generic more-info sheet. On top of that there are dedicated full screens for Climate, Energy, Security, Vacuum and Battery, live camera streams, live cleaning maps for Valetudo robots, and per-room Adaptive Lighting controls.

Controls and screens

Notifications and a timeline of the house¶

Push notifications arrive from your own server over the app's own connection, including the actions buttons the official companion app supports — tapping one fires the same mobile_app_notification_action event, so automations written for the official app work unchanged. The Events tab reads Home Assistant's logbook live and shows what the house has been doing: the front door opening, a light going off, someone arriving home.

Notifications · Event timeline

Optional, and powered by the companion HKI 7 Cloud integration — which stores everything on your own Home Assistant. An admin builds one dashboard and publishes it to specific people or to everyone, hides views, rooms or individual entities from particular family members, sets per-user permissions, and sees which HKI version each family device runs.

Family sharing

Presence without the battery cost¶

Location is event-driven — geofences and WorkManager rather than continuous tracking — designed for battery parity with the official app. It is fully optional; the app works without location access at all.

Presence and location

Requirements¶


Android	12 or newer (minSdk 31)
Home Assistant	Any reachable instance — local URL, remote URL, or Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa)
Family sharing	Additionally needs HKI 7 Cloud `0.10.0` or newer, installed via HACS

Licensing¶

HKI 7 uses an open-core model. The community source code is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0; separately marked premium assets remain proprietary. The open-source core is fully usable without Premium. See LICENSE for the details.

About AI use

This project was created with the help of AI, including Claude and OpenAI models. If you dislike AI being used in projects, then do not install this.