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Home Assistant card: point your phone at a lamp, blind, TV or speaker to control it – by compass or by camera recognition, no extra hardware

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GITHUB · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 51 upvotes (top 62%) · 0 views

Niche: smart home automation software · 107 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • custom-card
  • hacs
  • home-assistant
  • homeassistant
  • lovelace
  • lovelace-card

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a Home Assistant custom card that reads phone compass and orientation sensors and maps the pointing direction to configured device positions, which is standard frontend JavaScript plus the HA integration API.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 116 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #48 of 117 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.

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