3 health-focused Home Assistant projects to try this weekend (31 Jul - 2 Aug)

Published Jul 31, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT Adam has a degree in Engineering and has a life-long interest in technology. He has been writing for over a decade for various print and online publications, with a focus on consumer tech. He joined How-To Geek in 2024 while working at Pocket-lint. As well as being a long-term fan of Apple products, he also has a strong interest in smart home tech, running a Home Assistant server at home to automate all his smart home devices. He believes that the ideal smart home should work with minimal interaction from the user, with automations running as if by magic rather than requiring you to push buttons on a control panel. You can find more of his work on Muck Rack. Home Assistant started life as software purely designed to help you control and automate your smart home devices. As the software has developed, however, it's become possible to use it for a lot more. Here are three projects that can use Home Assistant as a hub for your well-being as well as your smart home. Free your smart scale No need to rely on proprietary apps Smart scales are clever devices that can do a lot more than just tell you how much you weigh. They can also provide body composition information such as your body fat, muscle mass, bone mass, water mass, and more. Tracking this information over time can be a helpful way to spot positive or negative trends in your body composition. The problem is that many smart scales only allow you to access this data using proprietary apps. You're then restricted to the data and charts that the app is willing to show you, and it may not be possible to display the trends that you really want to see. BLE Scale Sync may be able to help. It's an add-on (now known as an app) that you can install in Home Assistant. Using a Raspberry Pi or an ESP32 Bluetooth proxy placed within range of the scale, the add-on can read body composition data over Bluetooth from more than 25 popular smart scales. Using MQTT, this data can then be exported to Home Assistant. Once the data has been exported, you can do whatever you want with it, whether that's creating dashboard charts showing trends, or even using it in automations. If you prefer, you can export the data to other targets, such as Garmin Connect and Strava. If more than one person uses the smart scale in your home, you can take advantage of automatic weight-based identification with per-user exports so that each person can track their own data separately. Home Assistant Green Dimensions (exterior) 4.41"L x 4.41"W x 1.26"H Weight 12 Ounces Home Assistant Green is a pre-built hub directly from the Home Assistant team. It's a plug-and-play solution that comes with everything you need to set up Home Assistant in your home without needing to install the software yourself. Bring your health data together Get all your health data in one place Credit: Sergio Rodriguez / How-To Geek Getting your smart scale data into Home Assistant is very useful because you get to choose exactly what to do with it. You can create dedicated dashboards with charts and statistics or just store the data so that you can refer back to it when you need to. Whether or not you have smart scales, you probably have a lot of health data from other sources. Our phones, smartwatches, and other wearable devices can track a lot of data such as sleep tracking, heart rate data, step count, and more. If you're an Android user, getting a lot of this information into Home Assistant is easy because the Home Assistant Companion app includes Health Connect support for Android. If you use a health tracker that writes data to Health Connect, Home Assistant can access some of this data. Not everything is exposed, however. If you use WHOOP bands, for example, you can access measurements such as heart rate, resting heart rate, and sleep duration, but not metrics such as day strain, recovery score, sleep performance, and last workout strain. The good news is that using a custom WHOOP integration, you can expose these metrics and more. There are similar integrations for Withings, Fitbit, Garmin, and other popular services that can help you get more of your health data into Home Assistant, but one notable omission is Apple Health. Apple tends to lock down its data, and you can't simply access your Steps count or Stand hours through the Home Assistant Companion app like you can on Android. You have to rely on options such as creating shortcuts that can export your Apple Health data, or using paid options such as the Health Auto Export app. Create visual medication reminders Electronic shelf labels can make life easier Credit: Displayme / Amazon Like many people, I have to take medication every day. I've set up a complicated system of alerts that nags me to take my tablets until I've acknowledged that I've taken them. It works really well the majority of the time. Sometimes, you just want a simple but effective way to see whether you've taken your medication or not. Phone alerts are fine, but if your phone runs out of battery, it's possible to miss them. An alternative is to use an Electronic Shelf Label (ESL). You'll have seen ESLs in grocery stores. They're the small E-Ink labels that display the prices and product information on the shelves. Because their E-Ink displays only require power when updating, some ESLs can run for years on a single battery. Using the right types of ESLs and software such as OpenEPaperLink, you can change what an ESL displays. You could set one up to show which medication still needs to be taken that day and leave the label on the shelf where you keep your tablets. By placing something like a smart button next to the ESL, you can push the button when you've taken the tablets, and the ESL display can change to show that the tablets have been taken, before resetting again at midnight. That way, you always have a visual indication of whether you've taken your medication or not. Home Assistant isn't just about turning on your lights It amazes me what you can do with Home Assistant. Some of my favorite automations don't have anything to do with my smart home devices at all. The best part about using Home Assistant to track health data is that you can keep that data local without necessarily having it all end up on third-party servers.