Privacy Policy

Home Automation Dashboard is a control panel for your own Home Assistant server. It talks to that server and nothing else of the developer's: there is no account with the developer, no developer server, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party software development kit. Its App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected.”

What is collected

Nothing, by the developer or anyone else on the developer's behalf. Nothing about you, your home or how you use the app is measured, recorded or shared.

Your Home Assistant server

To work, the app connects to the Home Assistant addresses you give it during setup: a local address on your home network and, if you add one, a remote address such as a Home Assistant Cloud URL. Over that connection it reads your dashboard layout and the state of the devices on it, and sends the commands you choose with the Siri Remote. Your server is yours: what it keeps, such as its history and logbook, is governed by your own Home Assistant settings, not by this app.

What is stored on your Apple TV

Your server addresses and access token, and your Settings PIN (as a salted hash, never the PIN itself), are kept in the Apple TV's Keychain. Your layout source, style and color scheme, and a short lockout timer after wrong PIN entries, are kept in the app's private storage. None of it is sent anywhere. Sign out in Settings removes the addresses, token and PIN, and deleting the app removes its settings. Codes you type to unlock a door or disarm an alarm are sent to your server once and are never stored or logged.

Local network and setup

tvOS asks your permission before the app uses your local network. The app uses it to find Home Assistant on your network and, while the setup screen is showing, to run a small setup page that your iPhone opens by scanning the code on the TV. That page only accepts a request carrying the one-time code shown on screen, and it stops as soon as you leave the setup screen. What you type into it goes straight to the Apple TV, not to the internet.

Pictures and camera video

Camera stills and live video, album art and pictures on your dashboard are loaded from your Home Assistant server. If your server points to a picture hosted elsewhere, for example artwork from a music service or an image address you put in a picture card, the Apple TV loads it from that address directly, the way a web browser would.

Demo mode

The demo is a fictional sample home built into the app. It makes no network connections.

No tracking, no advertising

There are no third-party trackers, no advertising and no analytics or telemetry of any kind. No data is used for tracking.

Crash reports

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your Apple TV's privacy settings, Apple may send anonymous crash reports. That is Apple's system, you control it, and the app adds nothing to it.

Children

Home Automation Dashboard collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the new policy will be published at this address with a new revision date before the version that changes it ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Use the Home Automation Dashboard support form.