What is Aivi?

Aivi puts beautiful, real-time Live Activities on your iPhone, lock screen, and Dynamic Island, plus persistent widgets on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. 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 or a widget too.

An iPhone lock screen with Aivi widgets and a Tesla charging Live Activity, next to an iPad home screen filled with Aivi widgets.

Home Assistant

Aivi is the easiest way to bring Live Activities and widgets to Home Assistant. There is a ready-made blueprint for every Live Activity template and every display widget template: import one, point it at your entities, and you are done. No custom components; the only YAML is one short rest_command you paste once.

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, and Home Assistant widgets on iPhone does the same for the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch.

Beyond Home Assistant

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

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, and the guides for Node-RED and scripts and openHAB for step-by-step setups.

Always-on widgets

Live Activities come and go with the task they track. For the state you want visible all the time (battery levels across your home, electricity prices, today’s energy flow, a budget), Aivi also drives persistent widgets on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, StandBy, and the Apple Watch. Same API, same Home Assistant pattern, same sharing: create a widget in the app, update it with one PATCH, and every device that shows it stays current.

Features

Broad Apple support. Live Activities on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, CarPlay, and macOS.¹
Live Activity templates. Pick from several activity templates to match your data, from progress bars to status columns.
Persistent widgets. Eleven widget templates, from gauges and sparklines to battery rings, price timelines, and pressable switchboards, keep the latest state on screen around the clock.
Shared activities and widgets. 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

Quick Start Send your first Live Activity in a few minutes.

Home Assistant guide Connect your automations with a one-click blueprint.

Home Assistant widgets Put your sensors on the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch.

API Reference The endpoints, authentication, states, and errors.

Live Activity Templates Everything an activity can render, with examples and previews.

Widget Templates The eleven persistent widget layouts and their content schemas.

Community & updates

Community Hub: report bugs and showcase your use cases.
X & Bluesky: updates and announcements.

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

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