Appearance¶

Settings › Appearance covers how the app looks — colour, typography and component shape. What the dashboard is made of (dashboards themselves, the navigation bar, media players and popups) lives under Settings › Dashboard instead.

Theme¶

Mode: System, Light or Dark.
Colour: System (Material You, from your wallpaper), Rose, Green, Blue, Amber, or Custom. With Custom you set the light and dark schemes yourself.

Fonts¶

Font size: Scales the app's text independently of the Android system font size.
Boldness: Six steps, from Thinner (−200) through Default to Boldest (+300). This shifts the weight of the whole type scale rather than bolding individual labels.
Font family: With a live preview line so you can see what you are choosing before you commit.

Language¶

HKI 7 ships in English plus 35 translations: Dutch, German (also Austrian and Swiss), French, Spanish (also Latin American and Mexican), Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Russian, Thai, Arabic and Hebrew.

Arabic and Hebrew mirror the whole interface right to left, rather than only reversing the text.

By default the app follows the system language. Pick a specific one under Settings › Appearance › Language to override that — the list has a search box, and keeps "Follow the device" and your current language pinned at the top so there is always a way back if you pick one by accident.

Entity names come from Home Assistant

Changing the app language translates HKI 7's own interface. Your entity and area names are whatever Home Assistant calls them.

Corners¶

One global roundness setting — Sharp, Modern or Round — applied to every dashboard button, widget, stack and room card. Individual items can override it with their own corner radius.

Icons and animation¶

Animated icons

Entity icons gently glow, spin or pulse while the thing they represent is active — a light that is on, a door that is open, a camera that is recording. Each button can override the global setting with auto, off, or a forced glow / spin / pulse.

Weather animation

Weather artwork is animated Lottie, and where it animates is four separate switches — the header pill, the weather dialog, the forecast strips, and the weather widget. They are separate because the cost is wildly uneven: the forecast strips run a dozen compositions side by side and are the only surface that ever caused stutter, so switching those off need not mean losing the single small icon in the header pill.

All four are on by default, and appear both here and in the header pill's own settings sheet.

Two different things

Entity-icon animation and weather animation used to be one setting. They are not the same thing — one is icons glowing and spinning, the other is Lottie weather artwork — so they are now controlled separately.

Icon packs¶

The complete Material Design Icons and Simple Icons sets are bundled as webfonts, with lookup tables in the app's assets. Icons render with no network dependency, and the picker searches both packs.

The dashboard header comes in two forms:

Full

The expanded header, with the left header pill, the persons subtitle, and the right header pill.

Compact

Keeps only the title, the right header pill and the back affordance. Compact mode hides the left header pill, the persons subtitle and status information, and the room counters — that is what makes it compact.

The gestures still work: swipe down on the compact bar to open Search, Flows, Edit and Settings. Gestures

Force high refresh rate¶

Locks the screen to its highest refresh rate while HKI 7 is in the foreground. Some devices drop to 60 Hz for apps they consider static; this stops that at the cost of a little battery.