New Home Assistant integration for Kanboard (HAKboard) - feedback welcome

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a new integration that connects Kanboard with Home Assistant, and I’d love to share it here first to get feedback from actual Kanboard users.

:pushpin: What it does

The integration (called HAKboard) uses the Kanboard API to pull live project, task, and user data into Home Assistant as sensor entities. It includes:

  • Project task counts

  • Per-user statistics (open tasks, active/admin flags)

  • Last activity timestamps

  • Synced project filtering

  • Multiple Kanboard instances supported

  • Auto-cleanup for removed projects

  • Simple configuration UI (no YAML)

  • Optional Lovelace dashboard cards

:file_folder: Repository

https://github.com/aktive/hakboard

:test_tube: Why this might be useful

Many Home Assistant users track personal/home workflows inside Kanboard (renovations, shopping lists, maintenance reminders, etc.).
This integration makes it possible to:

  • Build dashboards around those workflows

  • Trigger automations based on task activity

  • Visualize project status in a smart display

  • Combine Kanboard data with home sensors (e.g., “show urgent tasks if someone is home”)

:man_raising_hand: Looking for feedback

Before finalizing the first major release, I’d appreciate input on:

  • Additional fields that would be helpful

  • Other Kanboard APIs worth exposing

  • Compatibility / performance feedback

  • Anything that would make this more useful to Kanboard users, and to get new users as excited as I am about Kanboard.

Thanks — happy to answer questions!

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Sorry, but even if it sounds interesting, I don’t see the use case for connecting Kanboard with HA.

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Alfred, I appreciate the reply (and your work!).

Totally understand it’s not a core Kanboard use case. I built this to reduce context switching between my two favorite self-hosted tools, Home Assistant and Kanboard. I use Kanboard heavily to manage projects for multiple HA instances, and it started as a simple “I need to know when any project has overdue tasks” so I can react automatically.

From there it snowballed once I realized how powerful Kanboard data becomes when exposed as HA automation signals. The dashboard widgets are mostly a bonus, the real value is using project/task state to drive automation. I just didn’t want to ship something with no UI and lock it only to people who can code.

It’s absolutely a niche crossover, but there’s a small group of homelab + Kanboard users who’ve been asking for exactly this kind of glue.

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Hey, no problem. If it helps you and your users, everything is fine.

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