simpleicons
A deprecated Home Assistant integration for using Simple Icons in your smart home interface.
What is simpleicons?
hass-simpleicons was a custom integration for Home Assistant that allowed users to use Simple Icons—a collection of open-source brand and technology logos—in their smart home dashboards. It solved the problem of limited or generic icon options in Home Assistant by providing access to a vast library of recognizable icons. However, this integration is now deprecated and users are advised to migrate to an alternative.
Home Assistant users looking to visually customize their smart home interfaces with specific brand or technology icons.
It offered a straightforward way to integrate a large, free icon library directly into Home Assistant, enhancing UI personalization. The main advantage was access to the extensive Simple Icons collection without needing manual icon management.
Overview
Use Simple Icons in Home Assistant
Use Cases
Best For
- Customizing Home Assistant dashboards with brand-specific icons
- Adding technology logos to device entities in Home Assistant
- Enhancing visual recognition of smart home devices
- Users who prefer open-source icon sets for UI customization
Not Ideal For
- Home Assistant users needing a stable, long-term supported icon integration
- Projects that require frequent updates to icon libraries or compatibility with latest Home Assistant versions
- Teams unwilling to manage migration from deprecated software or handle potential instability
Pros & Cons
Pros
Provided access to hundreds of brand and technology icons from the Simple Icons project, enabling rich visual customization in Home Assistant dashboards.
Used a straightforward `si:ICONNAME` naming scheme, making it easy to integrate icons without complex configuration or manual icon management.
Leveraged the freely available Simple Icons collection, ensuring no licensing costs and a wide variety of recognizable logos for UI enhancement.
Allowed users to add specific brand or technology icons to entities, improving the aesthetic and usability of smart home interfaces.
Cons
The project is officially deprecated, meaning no updates, bug fixes, or support, which risks integration failures and security issues in Home Assistant.
As acknowledged in the README, the integration was unstable for some users, leading to unreliable icon display and performance problems in dashboards.
The developer found it challenging to keep the integration updated with Home Assistant changes, contributing to its discontinuation and user burden.
Users must migrate to hass-custom_icons, involving steps like removing the old integration, installing a new one, and changing icon references, which can be disruptive.
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