Aurora Glass — animated dashboard for Home Assistant, with a setup wizard
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A living dashboard: the sky, sun, moon and the windows of the little house follow the real time of day, ten animated worlds, eleven weather effects, buttons made of images and GIFs, alarm, climate, cameras and an energy view with costs from your own tariff.
Add it from the Home Assistant Marketplace (or HACS on older versions) and a wizard builds the dashboard for you: it finds your rooms from your Home Assistant areas, lets you rename them, and adds the dashboard to the sidebar. No YAML. English and Italian.
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Install
Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer (HACS is now built in as the Marketplace):
- Settings → Marketplace → Add from link (upper-right corner) → enter
https://github.com/lucalux00/aurora-glass → Add. The first time, the Marketplace asks you to connect GitHub (device sign-in on github.com, read-only, no password in Home Assistant). If it asks for the type, choose Integration.
- Open Aurora Glass in the list → Install. The setup wizard opens right away, no restart needed. (If it doesn't: Settings → Devices & services → Add integration → Aurora Glass.)
Older versions, with HACS:
- HACS → ⋮ → Custom repositories → add
https://github.com/lucalux00/aurora-glass, type Integration → search Aurora Glass → Download.
- Restart Home Assistant.
- Home Assistant finds Aurora Glass by itself: open Settings → Devices & services, it is listed as Discovered → Add. (Or Add integration → Aurora Glass.)
Already installed it with HACS? Updating to 2026.11 moves it to the Marketplace by itself: nothing to do, updates keep coming (they show up in Settings → Updates).
The wizard:
- Your dashboard — sidebar name, icon, language (automatic, English, Italian).
- Rooms — the areas that have lights are already selected. For each room type the name you want and check lights, motion sensors, doors/windows/locks and temperature (pre-filled). Rooms without an area can be added too.
- Lights without a room — lights and relays (Shelly, Sonoff…) that are in no area are listed on one screen, already placed in the right room from their names ("Kitchen ceiling" → Kitchen). Check, adjust, done — even with 10 rooms. Optionally put them in those Home Assistant areas too.
- Your home — alarm panel, weather, air conditioner, whole-house power (W) and energy (kWh), cameras, currency. Leave a field empty to hide that part.
- Quick scenes — what Good morning, Cinema and Dinner turn on (lights, or a scene/script).
The new entry appears in the sidebar. Done.
Change anything later right from the dashboard: Rooms and devices (or Edit next to each section, admins only) lets you rename rooms, change the image, add or remove lights, sensors, air conditioners and appliances. The same choices are also in Settings → Devices & services → Aurora Glass → Configure. Want a second dashboard (e.g. for a wall tablet)? Add service.
Without Marketplace or HACS: copy custom_components/aurora_glass into your config folder and restart. The download package also contains an english/ folder with a step-by-step guide and YAML examples for a manual install.
Features
- 10 animated worlds and 11 weather effects (rain, snow, storm, fireflies, petals, fireworks…)
- Sky and colours follow the real time of day
- Your rooms, your names: as many rooms and lights as you have
- Dimmable lights show their brightness on the button ("On · 60%" and a thin level bar); tap to switch, press and hold for the Home Assistant dialog with brightness and color
- 50 ready-made button images and GIFs (lights, scenes, sensors, alarm, climate), editable from the dashboard
- Alarm panel with code, cameras with live view
- Climate control for one or more air conditioners (a row to switch between them); infrared ones (SwitchBot, Broadlink…) are shown as "last command", because Home Assistant can't know if they are really on
- Top bar you can tap: the lights that are on (tap one to turn it off) and the rooms with motion, with when each sensor last saw someone
- Energy view: live power, kWh today / yesterday / month / year (worked out from your meter's history, no extra sensors needed, even if Home Assistant reset the meter's statistics) and costs = kWh × your tariff; appliances with their power sensors
- English and Italian; automatic mode follows each user's language
- Privacy: everything runs locally. The only external request is Google Fonts (Manrope, Sora).
Optional packs
Extra features you can add and remove whenever you like: Settings → Devices & services → Aurora Glass → Configure → Packs. Tick a pack to download and enable it, untick it to remove it, then reload the browser page. Nothing is downloaded unless you tick it, and Aurora Glass works the same without packs.
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