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haus is a command-line interface for Home Assistant developed by Kevin Boss, currently available at version 0.11.0, with a total of five versions published to date. The software falls within the home automation and developer tools category, providing users with a terminal-based method of interacting directly with a Home Assistant instance without relying on the graphical web interface. Its core purpose is to expose common Home Assistant operations as simple commands that can be executed from a shell environment, making it particularly useful for scripting, automation of administrative tasks, and integration into larger workflows or continuous deployment pipelines. According to its description, haus provides commands to inspect states, allowing users to query the current condition of entities within their Home Assistant setup, and to call services, which enables programmatic triggering of actions such as toggling lights, adjusting thermostats, or activating switches. The tool also supports firing events, giving users the ability to emit custom events into the Home Assistant event bus for consumption by automations and other integrations. In addition, haus includes functionality to manage automations, covering operations related to the configuration and control of automated routines defined in the instance. A further capability is the installation of updates, which allows administrators to apply updates to a Home Assistant instance directly from the command line. Use cases for haus include home automation enthusiasts who prefer terminal-driven workflows, system administrators managing Home Assistant deployments remotely over SSH, and developers building tooling around smart home infrastructure. By consolidating state inspection, service calls, event handling, automation management, and update installation into a single command-line utility, haus serves as a practical companion application for anyone operating or developing against a Home Assistant environment.
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