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Just had to rush our diabetic cat to the vet hospital this afternoon.

We've been on top of his treatment but today he was being lethargic. He got up and was very wobbly, something was obviously wrong.

We have a home testing kit which I rushed out and it got a reading of 1.1 mmol/L which is way way too low.

Got the honey out and put some on my finger and rubbed on his tongue. Called Vet. Did honey 3 more times and then rushed to the vet.

Dunno why I'm writing this. I'm in the waiting room trying not to cry. It's an emergency vet and everyone here is solemn or crying. So sad.

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Quick backstory. At home, HA is great. The moment I leave the wifi it gets annoying.

I had Tailscale for remote access and it works fine, until it doesn't. Pull into the driveway, phone's still on LTE, Tailscale is up, or maybe not, who knows. Open the HA app, spinner. Wifi kicks in, the app still hangs on to the old connection. Kill it, reopen, spinner again. And there I am in the car in front of a closed garage door, poking at my phone like it's 2009. Pretty much the opposite of what I set up home automation for.

Port forwarding on my router? Nope. Nabu Casa just so I can toggle one cover? Didn't feel right either. And I really didn't want another VPN that needs to be "up" before anything works.

So I built ha-iroh. Small Android app + a HACS integration, talking over iroh, a peer-to-peer QUIC thing. The phone and your HA each get a keypair, everything is end-to-end encrypted, iroh punches through NAT when it can and goes via a relay when it can't. The relay only sees ciphertext.

The part that actually fixed my problem: there's nothing to "connect" first. Open the power menu, tap the garage cover, it opens. The app dials HA on demand over whatever network the phone currently has (wifi, LTE, crappy hotel wifi), and drops the connection when you're done. Switching networks is a non-issue because there's no long-lived tunnel to lose in the first place.

What you get

• Device Controls in the Android power menu / quick settings: lights, switches, fans, climate, covers, locks, scenes, scripts, buttons, with live state
• Assist from a quick settings tile or launcher shortcut (text for now, voice is on the list)
• your normal HA dashboard inside the app, log in once, works with any auth provider incl. MFA
• multiple HA instances in one app
• nothing exposed on your router. Pair by scanning a QR code in HA, delete the device in HA to kick the phone out again

What it's not

Not a replacement for the official app, and not trying to be. No sensors, no location, no notifications, no widgets, no Wear OS, no iOS. I run both: official app for all of that, ha-iroh for the "I'm standing outside and want the thing to happen now" moments.

Where it's at, honestly

• v0.2.x. I use it daily, so the tester count is roughly one. Expect rough edges.
• Android 12+, arm64 APK via GitHub Releases / Obtainium. Not on Play.
• HA side: HACS custom repo, HA 2026.3 or newer. The integration runs a small Rust bridge as a subprocess, bundled for x86_64 and aarch64, so HA OS / Container / Supervised all work.
• Want lower latency from outside? You can forward one UDP port and iroh goes direct. Totally optional, the relay path works everywhere.
• Two HA settings that can bite you, both in the README: ip_ban_enabled (the bridge talks to HA from localhost, so a few wrong passwords from any phone lock out 127.0.0.1 = every phone), and never put loopback into trusted_networks.

Links

• Repo + install guide: https://github.com/pzeinlinger/ha-iroh
• Design doc if you want to know how the pipe works: SPEC.md in the repo
• MIT
• Buy me a coffee if you feel like it: https://buymeacoffee.com/pzeinlinger

Bug reports very welcome, especially from people behind CGNAT, on Fritz!Box / MikroTik, or with unusual HA setups. If it saves you one minute in front of a garage door, mission accomplished.

A couple of times when I've played Dynasty Warriors with my girlfriend (who has ADHD diagnosis), I noticed that she would be literally running in circles having absolutely no idea where she was. She's not a gamer and controlling the camera can be finnicky for someone who isn't used to dual analogs, so there's that, but she also has trouble reading the minimap.

Yesterday I've had her play Crash Bandicoot 3 and she got "lost" in stage 2, the first underwater level. At the first sphere with electricity thingy, she thought she was supposed to keep going right, she didn't notice the pipe opening leading down.

Is "getting lost" like that common for people with ADHD?

She's also pretty lousy at Bomberman games, but she enjoys playing them.

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