House

The House tab shows your Home Assistant rooms with their lights, switches, thermostats, locks, garage doors and scenes, so you can switch things from the Kindle. GZreader talks to Home Assistant directly over your Wi‑Fi (its REST API): there's no web page or browser involved, and nothing goes through anyone else's server.

Not on the Kindle 2 and DX: they have no Wi‑Fi.

Turning it on

1. Settings → Connections → Home Assistant (House), and connect (below).
2. Tick House tab there. The tab goes at the end of the tab bar; move it or turn it off in Settings → Interface → Navbar → Tabs like any other tab. The bar holds 7 tabs: if it's full, turn one off first.

Connecting

You need Home Assistant's address and a long-lived access token: in Home Assistant open your profile (bottom left) → Security → Long-lived access tokens → Create token, and copy it (Home Assistant shows it only once).

• Connect with QR code: the setup page opens at its House tab; paste the address and the token on your phone.
• Find Home Assistant on this Wi‑Fi: the Kindle looks for Home Assistant's announcement on the network for a few seconds and fills in its address; then paste or type the token.
• Connect by typing: both on the Kindle's keyboard.

The address is the one you open Home Assistant with at home, e.g. homeassistant.local:8123 or 192.168.1.20:8123 (:8123 is added when you type no port). A Home Assistant Cloud or other https:// address works too.

Rooms come from Home Assistant's areas, which only an administrator's token can read. With another user's token the tab still works, grouped by kind (Lights, Switches, Climate, Locks…) instead, and says why.

What the tab shows

Refresh                       updated 1 min ago
Living room
  Ceiling light               On · 80%      ›
  Floor lamp                  Off      [toggle]
  Thermostat                  20.5° → 21°   ›
  Temperature                 20.5°
Outside
  Front door                  Locked        ›
  Garage door                 Closed        ›
Scenes
  Goodnight                                 ›

Each room (area) in Home Assistant's order, then Other (switchable things in no room) and Scenes. A device's name loses its room's name in front ("Living room Ceiling light" → "Ceiling light"). Shown: lights, switches, fans, helpers (input booleans), thermostats, locks, covers (garage doors, blinds), scripts and scenes, plus temperature and humidity sensors and door and window sensors. Devices hidden in Home Assistant aren't shown.

What tapping (or the device's letter key) does:

• Switch, fan, plain light: on or off.
• Dimmable light: a dimmer with On, Off, − 10% / + 10% (it stays open for another step) and 10% / 40% / 80% / 100%. Steps instead of a slider: each press is one change and one screen refresh.
• Thermostat: the temperature now and the target, a step down or up.
• Lock: unlocks (asks first) or locks.
• Garage door, gate: opens (asks first) or closes; blinds open and close without asking.
• Scene, script: runs it.
• Sensors: show their value only.

Refresh (the first row) fetches everything again. The list also refreshes every 30 seconds while the tab is on the screen, and Wi‑Fi stays on while it's open (in Auto it goes off a minute after you leave). The last list is kept on the Kindle, so the tab opens at once with it and then updates. If Home Assistant can't be reached, the last list stays with a line saying why.

Settings

Settings → Connections → Home Assistant (House):

• House tab: in the tab bar or not.
• Rooms and devices: hide a room, or single devices in it (e.g. a Zigbee bulb's "child lock" switch). Open the House tab once first so the Kindle knows your rooms.
• Ask before unlocking or opening (on): locks, garage doors, gates and doors ask before they're unlocked or opened.
• Disconnect: removes the address and token from the Kindle. The token still works until you delete it in Home Assistant (your profile → Security).

Privacy

The token is kept in GZreader's settings on the Kindle, like the Memos token, and never written to the log. The log names Home Assistant's address, what was switched (e.g. light.turn_on light.porch) and when, nothing else. The tab asks Home Assistant only for what it shows: one small request rendered by Home Assistant's templates (with a token that isn't an administrator's, Home Assistant's whole list of states, which is bigger).