I've run Home Assistant for many years. The one place it never felt right was my Apple Watch, which always seemed like the most natural place to control it from.  
So I built the watch client I always wanted. It's called [Wrist Assistant](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wrist-assistant/id6759152098).

I've been running it as my daily driver for many months, and a ton of people here have tested it out and sent feedback along the way. Genuine thanks to everyone who did — it REALLY helped make the app better over time. Now it's ready for prime time.

It's by far the fastest and most natural way I've found to interact with Home Assistant.  
I spent a TON of time working on the ability to trigger things as fast as possible. The long-press slide menus are one of many things that came out of that. No need to tap tap tap. Just press, slide, let go. It's way faster and super natural. Not supernatural, but kind of..

\***\*Some stuff it can do:\*\***

* \***\*Live camera feeds on the watch.\*\*** Front door, driveway, nursery — streaming straight from your wrist, with quality that adapts automatically to your connection. Fast and reliable. Zoom with the Crown, pan with your finger, double-tap to switch SD/HD.
* \***\*Notifications that are actually useful.\*\*** Native Apple notifications, near-instant, and they can carry a camera snapshot — the doorbell rings, you see who's at the door right on your wrist, then tap to pull up the live stream. You can also add any entities you want as actionable buttons right in the notification (lights, locks, etc.), and double-tap a button for extra functions — e.g., quick brightness presets at 25 / 50 / 75 / 100%.
* \***\*Complications.\*\*** Glanceable on your watch face, from simple status to richer multi-entity and camera glances. They auto-refresh on a schedule you set, or tap to refresh on demand. Tap actions cover the lot — open a specific page in the app, toggle any device, run a script or scene, and more.
* \***\*Quick Menus.\*\*** One of my most-used features. Long-press any tile to open a radial menu of up to 8 slots, each able to do just about anything — run a script, toggle a device, set a scene, call a service. Example: a front-door lock tile taps to lock/unlock, but long-press it for arm alarm, toggle the porch light, open the doorbell live stream — whatever you want, all on one tile. Each long-press also has a hold-slide menu with 4 more custom actions. It's like fitting a whole page of options onto a single tile.
* \***\*Deep customization.\*\*** Build the layout on your iPhone, and use it on your wrist. Customize icons, borders, colors, text, states, tap/hold actions, size, backgrounds, and more — and the watch settings run just as deep. I wanted you to be able to change basically anything and make the app feel like your own.

\***\*Some other stuff:\*\***

* \***\*Smart Pages & Status Pages\*\*** — at-a-glance views of what's on, open, or worth checking, without hand-placing every tile. Nicely formatted, and they show when you want them to. Example: one for every light that's on in the house, or every battery below 25%.
* \***\*Music Hub\*\*** — control whatever's playing across your media players (I use this every day). Works best with Music Assistant installed in Home Assistant. Pick and group speakers, control playback, see album art, browse your libraries, view the queue, and more. Really awesome on the watch.
* \***\*Automatic local/remote switching\*\*** — local at home, remote when you're out, it flips for you. No VPN fiddling, no swapping URLs manually, unless you want to. Everything's customizable.
* \***\*Siri & spoken replies\*\*** — fire actions by voice and hear Assist responses read back. Lots to explore here; my favorite is broadcast: trigger it, speak, and your voice plays out on any speaker or speaker group in the house. You can also set default TTS phrases for specific speakers — my wife has a "Dinner's Ready" one that hits my office speaker with a single tap on her watch.
* \***\*And much more\*\*** — there are like a hundred more things I can't fit here; [the docs](https://docs.wrist-assistant.com/) cover the rest. It supports every Home Assistant entity type.

Give it a try. It's truly the best way to control Home Assistant, and I'm actively adding new features daily. If you think of something that is missing from the app, please lmk and I'll get it added!

App Store: [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wrist-assistant/id6759152098](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wrist-assistant/id6759152098)

I built Wrist Assistant: live cameras, complications, and fast Home Assistant control on Apple Watch