Home Assistant,
without the browser tab.

Drag the entities you actually use into a grid, split across named pages if one screen isn't enough. Click a tile to toggle it, hold it for the rest: brightness, fan speed, cover stop, target temperature. Custom names and icons live in the widget's config, never in yours.

Pull a supported tile out of the widget and drop it on the desktop as its own movable, resizable window. Pinned lights get 25/50/75/100 preset buttons, so a lamp can sit next to your clock and go to a quarter brightness in one click.

Up to seven sensors on one 24-hour chart, sharing a time axis and a value scale so the curves actually line up. Hover anywhere for a crosshair and every series' value at that moment. I mostly use it to put each room's temperature against the outdoor sensor and find out which radiator is slacking.

A camera tile can hold an authenticated HLS stream, or a snapshot every 30, 10 or 5 seconds if you'd rather not stream all day. Previews pause whenever the widget or the tile is hidden. Clicking a tile grows the feed you already have instead of reconnecting, and there's a Reconnect button for when the session goes stale anyway.

Bind a key to toggle an entity, run a script or fire an automation from inside any other app. A separate popup hotkey brings the widget to the front, hold-to-show or toggle. Once it's up, Ctrl+K searches every entity in HA and opens its controls.

You authorize it on Home Assistant's own login page in your real browser, over a temporary loopback callback. The refresh token goes into an OS-encrypted credential file, the short-lived access token stays in memory, and pairing fails closed if the OS keychain isn't available. Long-lived access tokens still work if you prefer them, filed under Advanced.

Accent and background colors, window opacity, frosted glass, and optional rain, snow, cloud, sun and storm animations behind the tiles. The weather effects are silly. It's your desktop.

Your layout, theme and tiles go into one JSON file in a folder you already sync. Drive, iCloud, Syncthing, whatever you've got. Newest write wins, the last five local profiles are backed up before a remote one lands, and you can encrypt the file with a passphrase (AES-256-GCM, scrypt). Tokens, window positions and hotkeys never leave the machine they're on.