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Butler

Companion for Home Assistant

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Hybrid native + web app for Home Assistant. Butler wraps your Home Assistant dashboard up in a native UI, integrating better with your OS. Native features include:

  • Icon in your App Grid, Applications Menu, Dash, Dock, etc.
  • Native header bar
  • Save and restore current view and size when closed and re-opened
  • Two-finger swipe and mouse button support to go back/forward between views
  • Cross-desktop light/dark style support for GNOME, elementary OS, etc.

Other features include:

  • Pinch-to-zoom
  • Set the scaling with Ctrl+Plus/Minus or Ctrl+0 to reset

Made for GNOME

Butler is designed and developed on and for GNOME. As such, contributors agree to abide by the GNOME Code of Conduct.

Download on Flathub

Why not a web browser or PWA?

I don't love the state of web apps and PWAs on Linux; I prefer GNOME Web or Firefox, but the former doesn't truly support PWAs (just web apps with not-that-lightweight of a UI) and the latter doesn't support PWAs on the desktop at all. So, I made this dumb little web wrapper to give myself a bit more integrated of an experience.

If there's more interest in making this into a better-integrated companion app for Linux, I welcome contributions!

Developing and Building

I recommend using GNOME Builder for development.