Home Assistant

Any Home Assistant entity: state, icon, unit, thresholds and a history sparkline.

At a glance

OutputLiveRendered by the engine and streamed over Bluetooth as its data changes (about 5–9 frames a second).

Settings11every one editable live in the studio, or by an agent with update_app_settings

Sourcehassentity.pysrc/deskdot/apps/hassentity.py

Settings
Setting	Type	Default	Options / range
Entity id`entity`	text	sensor.living_room_temperature	up to 120 characters
Label`label`Empty = the entity's friendly name	text	empty	up to 24 characters
Icon`icon`	choice	Automatic	AutomaticThermometerDropBoltSunBulbBatteryDoorLockPersonHomeFlameNone
Unit`unit`Empty = the unit Home Assistant reports	text	empty	up to 8 characters
Decimals`decimals`	whole number	1	0 – 3
Colour`color`	colour	#00dcff	any colour (#rrggbb)
Amber at`warn_at`Number; empty = off	text	empty	up to 16 characters
Red at`alert_at`Number; empty = off	text	empty	up to 16 characters
Thresholds trigger`direction`	choice	At or above	At or aboveAt or below
Refresh every (s)`poll`	whole number	15	5 – 600
History (hours)`history_h`0 hides the sparkline	whole number	6	0 – 48

render a frame to PNG (no panel needed)

$ uv run deskdot preview hassentity --settings '{"icon":"temp"}' --out hassentity.png

show it on your panel (engine running)

$ curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8765/api/apps/hassentity/activate

Or ask your agent: “Show Home Assistant on my panel”. It calls show_app with "hassentity". New here? Set up DeskDot first.

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