Search and control your Home Assistant entities from Flow Launcher.
- Search everything. Find any entity by name or
entity_id. - Smart default actions.
Entertoggles lights and switches, runs scripts and scenes, presses buttons and cycles thermostat modes. - Rich context menu. Services, light colors and effects, media sources and every attribute, one
Shift+Enteraway. - Brightness from the search bar.
ha kitchen 40sets the kitchen lights to 40%. - Browse by domain.
ha #lists your domains,ha light.lists your lights. - Logbook and error log.
ha @shows what just changed,ha !shows what went wrong. - Theme-aware icons. Material Design icons that follow your Flow Launcher theme.
Type ha followed by an entity name or entity_id, then press Enter to run its default action:
ha living
| Query | Result |
|---|---|
ha <name> |
Entities whose name or entity_id matches |
ha <domain>. |
Only entities in that domain, e.g. ha light. |
ha # |
Every domain. Select one to browse its entities |
ha <light> <0-100> |
Set a light's brightness |
ha @ |
Recently changed entities from the logbook |
ha ! |
The Home Assistant error log, newest first |
Type # to list your domains. Selecting one fills in the domain filter:
Add a number between 0 and 100 after a light:
ha @ lists recently changed entities, newest first. Select one to jump to it:
Open the context menu (Shift+Enter or right-click) for the entity's services, light colors
and effects, media player sources and select options, and its attributes. Select an attribute
to copy it:
Choose Hide Entity at the bottom of the context menu to remove noisy entities from the results:
In Flow Launcher, type:
pm install ha-commander
Download HA-Commander-<version>.zip from the latest release and unzip it into
%appdata%\FlowLauncher\Plugins, then restart Flow Launcher.
Pre-releases of the next version are published from the open release PR on the releases page for testing. Flow Launcher won't offer them as updates.
Open Settings → Plugins → HA-Commander in Flow Launcher:
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| URL | http://localhost:8123 |
Your Home Assistant URL, including the port |
| Token | A long-lived access token. Create one under Profile → Security in Home Assistant | |
| Verify SSL | true |
Reject invalid or self-signed certificates |
| Max results | 50 |
The most results to show. Lower is faster |
- Flow Launcher 1.17.0 or newer
- Python 3.8 or newer, which Flow Launcher can install for you
6.0.0 (2026-10-03)
- port the plugin to pyflowlauncher on Flow Launcher's python_v2 runtime
- port the plugin to pyflowlauncher on Flow Launcher's python_v2 runtime (d430dcc)
- update icons to MDI 7.4.47 and Home Assistant's entity icons (d430dcc)
- honour the Max results setting again (d430dcc)
- resolve custom mdi: entity icons (d430dcc)
- save hidden entities to the plugin settings (d430dcc)
- reply to Flow Launcher before Home Assistant responds (0b5504f)
- reply to Flow Launcher before Home Assistant responds (7513391)
5.2.1 - 2025-01-09
- fix: mediaplayer attribute error by @Gh0stExp10it in #68
5.2.0 - 2024-06-27
- Update flox lib from 0.18.1 to 0.20.1 by @Garulf in #59
- Fix select options by @Garulf in #62
- Added button entity class by @Hobbit44 in #60
- Handle lights with no effects attribute by @Garulf in #63
I would like to thank the following for their contributions and support @robertoleonardo and @Hobbit44 and anyone who has reported bugs and helped. Thank you
See CHANGELOG.md for the full history.