Casora

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Supports

• Works locallyTalks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
• From the MarketplaceInstalled through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.
• Actively maintainedIts author released or pushed a change in the last six months.

Provides

• Sensors

Setting it up

Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services.

Texts from the code of SH1FT-W/casora.

Entities

• Binary sensorsCasora Ventilation hint, Casora Solar tip
• SensorsCasora Media paused, Casora Ventilation, Casora Energy coach, Casora Heating coach, Casora Ventilation coach, Casora Recipe of the week, Casora Camera AI, Casora Plant AI, Casora Update AI analysis, Casora Aquarium AI, Casora E-bike AI, Casora Timers

Actions

• Energy coachReviews last week's energy dashboard data with AI.
• Heating coachReviews last week's heating time and temperatures with AI.
  • Heating season only
• Ventilation coachReviews last week's humidity, CO₂ and window openings with AI.
• Describe camera imageLets the AI describe the current camera image.
  • Entity
• Plant doctorCare tip for a plant from 7 days of readings.
  • Plant
• Aquarium doctorAI assessment of an aquarium from 7 days of temperature, equipment, light and leak sensor.
  • Temperature sensor
  • Name
  • Equipment
  • Light
  • Leak sensor
• Bike checkAI assessment of the e-bike: service, wear by mileage and battery care.
  • Entities
  • Name
• Check update with AIChecks release notes of pending updates against this system.
  • Entity
• Confirm AI checkUnlocks “Update” after reading the warning.
  • Entity
• New recipe ideaLets the AI suggest a recipe of the week.
• Ingredients to shopping listAdds the recipe's ingredients to the shopping list.
• Switch to Casora namesConverts older dashboards to Casora names (with backup).
  • Only count, change nothing
• Set upCreates missing Casora helpers and scripts (runs automatically at startup) and reports anything it could not create.
• Setup overviewRead only: rooms, devices without an area and devices not on any Casora tile yet, each with a suggested tile type. For your own assistant, for example through an MCP server.
• Propose a layoutChecks a proposed layout (which device goes on a tile in which area, with tile name and type) and answers with a preview. Changes no dashboard: the Casora Studio shows the suggestion, you check it, add the tiles and save. For your own assistant, for example through an MCP server.
  • Dashboard
  • Rooms
• Set timerTurns an entity off or on after a number of minutes. Replaces an existing timer for the same entity. When the timer ends, Casora fires the event casora_timer_finished (entity_id, action, reason: expired, manual or cancelled). Can respond with entity_id, at and start.
  • Entity
  • Minutes
  • Action
• Cancel timerRemoves the timer of an entity (event casora_timer_finished with reason cancelled).
  • Entity
• Generate with AILike AI task: generate data, but without a chosen AI it falls back to the first AI task. Used by Casora's AI flows.
  • Task name
  • Instructions
  • AI task
  • Structure
  • Attachments
• Smart light toggleToggles a light or light group. When turning off, Casora remembers which lamps were on and turns exactly those back on.
  • Light
• Toggle thermostat controlsOpens the temperature controls of a thermostat tile, closes them on a second tap, or switches to another tile.
  • Tile

Troubleshooting

• Repair noticesNotices it can show in Settings, Repairs:Casora kept some old scripts

From the README