Settings map¶
Settings is grouped into four sections. This page lists what is on each screen, in the order the app shows them.
Your Home¶
Identity and connection.
Account¶
Your profile as this app knows it.
- Name and avatar image
- Person entity — which
person.*entity is you - Birthday
Connection¶
- Home Assistant instances — the list of homes, the active one, rename and remove, and Add Home Assistant instance. Each home keeps its own login, dashboard, notification and location settings. Swipe left from the upper-right edge of the dashboard to switch.
- Active connection — current status and which route is in use, with Refresh connection.
- Remote access (optional) — external URL or Nabu Casa URL.
- Local network (optional) — internal URL plus home Wi-Fi names, with Add current network. On those networks the app connects via the internal URL.
- Connection log — a live diagnostic of connection attempts, reconnects, sync and subscriptions. Last 300 lines, cleared on every app launch, with copy and clear buttons.
- Maintenance — Restart Home Assistant. Administrative, disruptive, and deliberately the last thing on the screen.
Location¶
Device tracker and geocoded location.
- Device tracker — the master switch
- Android location permission — current state: allowed always / while using / not allowed, with Allow all the time
- Battery optimisation — with Disable battery optimisation
- Background usage — unrestricted is what presence needs
- Update location now
- High accuracy mode — continuous GPS for live tracking; uses much more battery
Personalize¶
Dashboards, visual style, and everyday navigation.
Dashboard¶
The subtitle shows whether the dashboard is in Automatic or Manual mode.
- Dashboards — create, switch, duplicate, delete
- Navigation bar — order and visibility. Home and Rooms are always shown
- Custom pages — create a page of your own
- Media players — rename players and choose which may appear in the media bar
- Popups — create and edit shared custom popups
Appearance¶
Theme and navigation bar.
- Visual style — colour, typography and component shape
- Theme — mode (System / Light / Dark) and colour (System / Rose / Green / Blue / Amber / Custom), plus separate system light and dark theme colours
- Fonts — text size, boldness (Thinner −200 → Boldest +300), and font family with a preview
- Language — follow the system, or pick one of 14 locales
- Corners — Sharp / Modern / Round, applied to every button, card and widget
- Icons — animated entity icons, and the four weather-animation switches
- Header — full or compact dashboard header
- Force high refresh rate
Services & Data¶
Messages, safety and portability.
Notifications¶
Push delivery and history.
- An explanation that notifications are delivered over the app's live connection whenever it is open — send them from Home Assistant with the notify service for this device, and swipe in from the left edge to see the history
- Background notifications — keeps a persistent connection while the app is closed; required while multiple homes receive notifications
- Hide Connection Notification — turns off the "Notification connection" channel; the connection keeps working, only its notification disappears
- Event timeline — a pointer to where it is configured, since that is set once for the whole family rather than per device
Backup & Restore¶
Save or restore dashboard configuration.
- Local file, Google Drive, and Home Assistant destinations
- Daily automatic Google Drive backup, keeping the newest 14
- Restore from any listed backup
Family Sharing¶
Parental controls, dashboard sharing and permissions. Needs the HKI 7 Cloud component, and is admin-only.
Tabs: Dashboards, Parental controls, Permissions, Presence, Devices, Events. Each says for itself if it needs a newer component than the one installed.
Home Assistant¶
Your server's own pages, opened full screen inside HKI 7. Administrators only — the pages
behind these links administer Home Assistant itself, so the category is hidden for everyone else.
Admin status comes from Home Assistant's own auth/current_user, so it does not depend on the
HKI 7 Cloud component. Also hidden on the demo home, which has no server behind it.
| Entry | Opens |
|---|---|
| Home Assistant settings | Integrations, devices, areas and automations |
| Developer tools | States, services, templates and events |
| HACS | Community integrations and frontend add-ons |
Each opens already signed in. The frontend asks the app for a short-lived token as it boots, over
the same external_auth bridge the official companion app uses — nothing is copied into the page's
storage, and a token is never handed to a document that is not on your server's own origin.
Home Assistant's sidebar is hidden, since HKI 7's own header already provides Back and Close. Back walks the page's own history first, so a settings page several levels deep steps back through them before the page closes.
HKI 7¶
Project information, licensing and community support.
About¶
What HKI 7 is and how it is built. Also where app updates live: HKI 7 can watch the GitHub releases once a day and tell you when a newer version is out, which matters if you installed the APK yourself rather than from Google Play. Update now goes to Play or to the release page depending on where this copy came from — an app distributed through Play may not update itself by any other route.
License¶
Open-source and premium licensing.
Support¶
Ways to help the project without buying Premium.