Helios

See your energy, in 2.5D.

A living map of what your home produces, stores and consumes, read straight from your Home Assistant Energy dashboard and drawn over the sun's daily arc. With or without solar.

Open Helios in your Home Assistant via HACS Star on GitHub
Try it live

One card. Endlessly yours.

This is the real card, running on demo data. Drop it on your own roof, repaint it, flip it dark or light, and watch the chips and groups come and go. Everything you see here is a setting.

Tap deeper

A curve behind every number.

A chip shows you the value now. Tap it, and Helios opens a detail panel with that reading's own curve across the day, the recorded past on the left, the forecast on the right, so a single figure becomes a story. Tap the production chip for today's solar shape, a group to see when it really runs, the battery for its charge and discharge. Tap again to close. It is all in the live demo above, every chip is tappable.

How it renders

Not 3D. A painter, one layer at a time.

There is no WebGL, no 3D engine, no depth buffer. Helios paints a single flat basemap, tilts it in CSS, then projects every overlay on top with a hand-rolled camera and lays them down far to near, the painter's algorithm. Light enough to stay smooth on a phone, and it renders where a real 3D layer would break.

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Your devices, grouped

Group what you track.

Helios reads the devices from your Energy dashboard and lets you sort them into families, heating, the car, water, appliances, whatever fits your home. Each group gets its own chip, colour and icon around the house, and its own curve in the timeline. Show the ones you care about, hide the rest. In the demo above, the four groups appear, disappear and recolour on every click.

The Individual electrical devices list in Home Assistant's Energy dashboard, the devices Helios reads to build its groups.
The devices come straight from your Energy dashboard's individual devices, nothing to wire up twice.
Local by design

Your data stays home.

No Helios server, no account. The card reads your own Energy dashboard, draws the neighbourhood from OpenFreeMap and the sun from a physical model. The only thing that ever leaves your instance is an approximate location, to fetch the map tiles and the weather from Open-Meteo. Free and open source.

Set it up

Install, and point it at your energy.

Add Helios through HACS, drop the card on a dashboard, and it wires itself from your Energy dashboard, solar, grid, battery and devices. No solar panels? It still maps your home, grid and consumption beautifully.

Why I built this

I still believe we can turn this around.

I'm Jérôme, 44, the developer behind Helios. After years across the whole stack, backend, frontend, 3D, games, embedded, I wanted to build something that actually matters to me.

A card won't save the planet, I know. But guilt and numbers nobody reads change no one: people change when they can finally see what's happening in their own home. That's the whole point of Helios, make energy visible, tangible, even beautiful, so acting on it stops feeling like a duty and starts feeling obvious.

Helios is free and open source, built by one person in the open.

ReikanYsora - Jérôme CREMOUX - 2026