ActionTiles — the friendly, glanceable dashboard that made a smart home usable for the whole family — has shut down. If you're moving to Home Assistant and want that same "my family can actually use this" feeling without building a dashboard from scratch, that's exactly what Ahl Control is for.
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Ahl Control is one calm panel for your whole home, sitting on top of Home Assistant. It works the moment you open it — on a seeded demo house — then controls your real devices once Home Assistant is wired. You don't edit YAML, and you don't assemble cards for an afternoon.
ActionTiles was a one-time purchase, and that's the model Ahl Control keeps: the full household experience is free, and an optional one-time Pro unlocks the extras. No monthly bill, ever — the opposite direction from where much of the smart-home world is drifting.
You connect your own Home Assistant — paste your address and a long-lived token, and they're saved only in your browser, never sent to our servers. The panel talks to your HA directly and is local-first, so it keeps showing the last known state even when the network drops.
It's an installable web app (PWA) over open-source Home Assistant. No proprietary cloud that can switch off your dashboard.
| Ahl Control | Build-it-yourself HA cards | Subscription dashboards | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup effort | Opinionated, no YAML | Assemble cards yourself | Drag-and-drop |
| Rooms built in | Yes, first-class | Depends on cards | Often not native |
| Floor-plan map | Yes, with live pins | Add-on cards | Varies |
| Family / guest mode | PIN lock + night-glance | DIY | Varies |
| Price | Free · one-time Pro | Free | Monthly / yearly |
| Data location | Your HA, local-first | Your HA | Often cloud |
The free Home Assistant community cards are powerful and we love them — but they ask you to build the dashboard. Ahl Control is for people who'd rather it already be built, and beautiful, and usable by everyone in the house.
Yes — Ahl Control is a front-end for Home Assistant, which bridges Alexa, Google Home, SmartThings, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter and more into one API. Try the demo house first with no setup.
Correct. The household experience is free; Pro is a one-time unlock via a redemption code (free codes are available from your household owner).
Yes. Install it as an app and point a tablet (or Fully Kiosk) at it; the night-glance panel is built for always-on displays.
If you want an easy Home Assistant dashboard without a monthly fee, and you prefer rooms and a floor plan out of the box, yes — Ahl Control covers that ground with a one-time model.