Pointly: Home Assistant Remote

Point your phone at a light, a TV or a speaker, then tap once. Pointly works out what you are aiming at and toggles that device in Home Assistant. No dashboard, no app switching, no saying "turn on the lamp" three times. Pointly is a spatial remote for Home Assistant: your phone becomes the remote control for the room you are standing in. Aim, lock on, tap. That is the whole interaction. ✨ POINT AND TAP Pointly uses your phone's rotation vector (compass + pitch) to work out what you are aiming at in real time. The reticle ring changes colour as you aim — grey when nothing matches, amber when you are close, green when you are locked on and a tap will fire. 🎯 TEACH A DEVICE BY AIMING AT IT No coordinates to type. Long-press the button, pick the entity from your server, then point at the actual fixture and confirm. Pointly stores the bearing and pitch and matches it every time you aim there again. Re-teaching the same entity moves it instead of creating a duplicate. 🏠 ROOM AWARE Two lamps on opposite sides of a wall are not the same lamp. Matches are scoped to the room you are in — using a zone entity, or a manual room list if your home has no room tracker. Swipe to change room and the pointer only matches devices in that room. 📺 WORKS AS A TV REMOTE Point at your TV or media player and the button becomes a proper remote: four arrows, Back, Home, volume up and down, and a centre key that shows Power when the device is off and OK when it is on. Inputs and apps appear as chips under the pad and you can reorder or hide them. It drives the sibling remote entity on the same device, so there is nothing extra to install. 🎛 CONTEXT PANEL For the device you are aiming at, Pointly shows live controls: brightness, volume and mute, source selection, media transport, and any custom hot-button action you have built. Everything acts directly on your instance. ⚙️ BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTED SMART HOME SETUPS • Direct connection to your own server — local IP, Nabu Casa or your own HTTPS endpoint • Works over http, private CA https and self-signed https • No account with us and nothing sent to us. Your server, your token, your data • Per-device sensitivity, so a cluster of bulbs can be picked apart and a lone ceiling fan never missed • High-contrast UI, screen reader labels, and a debug overlay showing live bearing, pitch and zone 🚀 TRY IT WITHOUT A SERVER Pointly ships with a public demo Home Assistant server, so you can install it and feel the pointing interaction before you connect your own home automation setup. WHO IT IS FOR Anyone running Home Assistant who is tired of scrolling a dashboard to switch off one lamp. If you like the idea of a wand more than a wall panel, this is for you. Pointly is an independent, unofficial app. It is not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with Nabu Casa or the Home Assistant project. Home Assistant is a trademark of Nabu Casa. Download Pointly and point at something.

Bigger TV remote buttons so the arrows are easier to hit while you point the phone at the TV, and a new power-off key beside Mute on the control panel.