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What is Aivi?

Aivi puts beautiful, real-time Live Activities on your iPhone, lock screen, and Dynamic Island. It works with Home Assistant out of the box: import a blueprint, pick an entity, and your automations show up live on every subscriber’s device. Under the hood it is a simple HTTP API, so anything that can make a request can drive an activity too.

An Aivi Live Activity shown on an iPhone lock screen.

Home Assistant

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Aivi is the easiest way to bring Live Activities to Home Assistant. Import a ready-made blueprint, point it at your entities, and you are done. No custom components, no HACS, no code.

Because activities are shared, a single automation keeps every member of your household in sync: set it up once, invite the others, and everyone’s devices update together.

Set up Live Activities for Home Assistant walks you through it step by step.

Beyond Home Assistant

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Aivi is a plain HTTP API, so any system that can make an HTTPS request can drive a Live Activity:

  • Home and smart devices: dishwashers, washing machines, EV charging, 3D prints, robot vacuums, and oven timers.
  • Developers and infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines, deployments, server metrics, cron jobs, backups, and uptime monitors.

If it has a state, you can track it. See the use cases for inspiration.

Features

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  • Broad Apple support. Live Activities on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, CarPlay, and macOS.1
  • Multiple templates. Pick from several templates to match your data, from progress bars to status columns.
  • Shared activities. Invite up to five people, and a single API call keeps everyone’s devices in sync. No extra work to keep the group updated.
  • Works with any device. Most smart home devices offer no Live Activities of their own. Aivi bridges that gap for anything, old or new.
  • Auto-updating timers. Countdown and elapsed timers update on-device with no extra API calls.
  • Power-efficient. Aivi only sends data when something changes, so your devices do not waste battery checking for updates.

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Get started

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Quick Start Send your first Live Activity in a few minutes.
Home Assistant guide Connect your automations with a one-click blueprint.
API Reference The single endpoint, authentication, states, and errors.
Templates Everything you can render, with examples and previews.

Community & updates

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Footnotes

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  1. Mirroring Live Activities on macOS is not available in the EU. ↩