Control Your Windows PC With Home Assistant!

Windows users have kinda been missing out when it comes to controlling Home Assistant devices and sensors from their desktop - but no more! Find out how you can connect your Desktop or Laptop to Home Assistant using Hass.Agent - a free tool that can collect sensor information, control devices with Hotkeys and receive notifications right to your desktop!

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[roblatour]

You might want to take a look at a program called Push2Run. It communicates between Home Assistant and Windows using MQTTT. Push2Run doesn't natively provide sensor data, but beyond what Hass.Agent does Home Assistant can have it run Windows programs / batch files / etc. (even in admin mode) and also send keystrokes to an application. Full disclosure, I love Push2Run because I wrote it :-).

[vcrahul]

Was about to sleep. Your video notification woke me up. Nice

[AJax]

THANK YOU!! I have been looking for something like this for literally years and nothing has ever worked... I started working on my own, but decided I didn't know what I was doing 🤣 This is pretty much what I imagined though, so thanks!

[juliandsp]

Nice, I've been using HASS Workstation, but the developer seems to be disappeared, so will give a try to this one since it seems to have a nicer projection and development

[tpm]

You are the best. You always have clear steps and walk us through everything that is needed.

[chrisrosenkreuz]

great stuff lad! really nice to see this project gaining traction! I try and share it everywhere I can

[OliVer-zvdt]

I got so excited the first time I saw you wearing that MCM Katakana shirt in an older vid. Love your stuff mate!

[sdfhjklhsfdjdsflhkds]

I agree that this shows promise and the winner for me is the notification capability. Creating some trigger logic in Node-RED was super-easy and it works great. But, like Lewis, I'd like to see more possibilities around actionable notifications. One simple use case is front door notifications.

In addition to getting an alert and a snapshot image, I'd like to be able to click on the alert and launch a new browser page with a larger version of the image, or possibly even a live view. A big ask maybe, but certainly very useful IMHO.

[cyberdave]

great video as ever Lewis. Worth noting, once you install the integrations in HACS, if you don't restart before editing the configuration.yaml, when you come to check the config it gives an error that it can't find "hass_agent_notifier". I didn't want to brave clicking restart and hoping for the best so commented it out, restarted, then edited the yaml and restarted again. Hope this might help anyone else who might be tripping up at this step.

[piotrmachowski]

I have created HA Taskbar Menu and I have to admit that your approach seems to be better in every way. I might have to migrate soon :D

[SamCastillo]

I've been looking for something like this for ages! My son never remembers to turn his pc off. My leccy bill thanks you!

[drGottesgleich]

How is it you always publish a video about the topic that I'm just trying to solve???? LEWIS, we talked about this! Stop reading my

[svenmuller]

THAT IS SOOO SUPER AWESOME ... sorry for screaming but that is exactly what I was looking for. I was soo annoyed to open the HASS page to toggle my lights ... SUPER AWESOME ... will love you loooong time for this hint.

[elshadsabziyev]

OMG I have always wanted this thing. Spot on solution for my years long problem

[GeorgeKaranikos]

Been waiting for this. Ripper mate, thanks and well done !

[Goygle]

Using hass agent for few months to control an “on air” sign so my kids know they can’t step into my office when I am in a Teams meeting. Works like a charm. The on air sign is using wled.

[ReidProjects]

Great ! I used IOT Link which is a more generic solution, but I'll definately give a try to this one, which has more Home Asssistant oriented features. Thanks !

[Pinza]

I'd love to see an update about this subject. Up to date HASS.Agent info is sadly lacking on youtube. 😁

[BCKammen]

This would be a great tool, thank you for the video, I want to now install, as I could use to to send notifications for battery Levels of my RV/Caravan so I know if I need to start up the generator, or start cutting power usage through my PC, than to just get notices through my phone.

[ThThOnly]

Been looking for something like this for a while. Not always able to ask google or load up the browser so having quick actions from my keyboard is great.

Also, this could potentially work with a stream deck. I don't have one to try but it's worth looking into.