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For YouTubers, streamers, bloggers and everyone who wants to show the Autodarts integration for Home Assistant. Everything on this page is free to use in videos, articles and posts about the integration; no need to ask.

Animation: a 301 match on the live card and the scoreboard side by side. Alex throws three triple 20s, Sam scores 85, and Alex checks out 121 for the game shot

On this page: In short · Facts · The story · Try it without a board · Videos and animations · Pictures · How to name it · Contact

In short

One sentence:

Make your Autodarts board part of your smart home: a scoreboard on any tablet, a light show on every 180, a bot, tournaments and stats. Local, no cloud, free.

A short description:

Autodarts for Home Assistant is a free, open-source integration that connects an Autodarts board to Home Assistant in real time, locally and without an account. It brings a scoreboard for the tablet at the board, X01, Cricket, party and training games, a bot, tournaments, player statistics with heatmaps, and events for your own automations, such as lights that flash on a 180.

Facts
Name Autodarts for Home Assistant (ha-autodarts)
Price Free, open source under the MIT license
Connection Local and in real time with the Board Manager on the board PC; no Autodarts account, no cloud
Games X01 from 101 to 1001, four Cricket games, six party games and eight training games
Play Up to four players or two teams of two, handicap start scores, a bot from level 20 to 120, tournaments of three to eight players
Scoreboard A full-screen view for a tablet or TV, with the new game screen, dart corrections, a caller and idle mode
Statistics Personal bests, heatmaps of the real dart positions, trends, achievements, a leaderboard, a weekly report and exports
Home Seven dashboard cards, an automatic dashboard and thirteen blueprints, for example a light show on a 180
Languages English, German, Dutch, French and Spanish
Quality 100 % test coverage, tested against both Board Manager generations in Docker; every rule of the Home Assistant quality scale up to Platinum (self-assessed)
Requirements Home Assistant 2026.8 or newer with HACS; the tested setups are under supported devices
Online matches Events straight from the Autodarts cloud follow once Autodarts grants access; until then an experimental bridge through Tools for Autodarts brings them in

The story

I play on an Autodarts board myself. I wanted it in Home Assistant, looked for a complete solution for a long time and didn't find one. So I wrote my own, in my spare time. By the community, for the community: I keep developing it, and feedback from real players decides what comes next. – Dennis Otto

Try it without a board

The quickest way is the live demo: the cards play a 501 against the bot, a Cricket game and a tournament right in the browser, on a phone too and in all five languages, with nothing to install. Share its link; ?lang=de, nl, fr or es at its end opens it in that language.

For the whole of Home Assistant, start the demo with a simulated board and made-up players: it shows every card, the scoreboard and a training history. You need Docker and Git; on Windows, run it in Git Bash.

git clone https://github.com/Dennis-Otto/ha-autodarts.git
cd ha-autodarts
bash tests/e2e/demo.sh

Open http://127.0.0.1:18124/autodarts-demo/board; no login is needed from your own computer. DEMO_LANGUAGE=de bash tests/e2e/demo.sh starts it in German. The script prints the command that stops it. More in the development guide.

Videos and animations

Recorded in the demo with a simulated board. MP4 works in video editors, on Reddit and on Discord; GIF works in every forum.

Scene English German
A 301 match on the live card and the scoreboard MP4 · GIF MP4 · GIF
The scoreboard during a 501 match MP4 · GIF MP4 · GIF
Confetti for a 180 on the scoreboard MP4 · GIF MP4 · GIF
Wild Mouse with doubles, triples and three in a bed MP4 · GIF MP4 · GIF
A match against the bot MP4 · GIF MP4 · GIF
Choosing the next game on the tablet MP4 · GIF MP4 · GIF
A tournament with its bracket MP4 · GIF MP4 · GIF

Pictures

Every screenshot of the documentation is in docs/images/en and docs/images/de, all taken in the demo. A few that show the integration at a glance:
The new game screen on a landscape tablet: the games by group with 501 chosen, Alex and Sam with their pictures, Sam starting from 301, three legs per set, double out and the start button Scoreboard after Alex beat Sam 2 : 1 in 301: the match summary with legs, 3-dart average, first 9, checkout rate, highest checkout, 180s, 140+, 100+, best leg, darts at a double and darts of both players
Players card with the profiles of Alex, Sam and Kim with their pictures, their averages and personal bests, the head-to-head record of Alex and Sam, and the recent matches The blueprints page of Home Assistant with the eleven Autodarts blueprints, from the board problem alert to the weekly report, and their file names

How to name it

  • Call it Autodarts for Home Assistant or ha-autodarts and link https://github.com/Dennis-Otto/ha-autodarts.
  • Say that it is an unofficial community project, not affiliated with Autodarts. Autodarts and Winmau names and logos belong to their owners; please don't use them in a way that looks like an endorsement, for example in a thumbnail.
  • Autodarts no longer supports the local interface of the Board Manager officially from version 2 on. The integration still works with it; the supported devices say what is tested.

Contact

Questions and ideas go to GitHub Discussions, so every answer helps everyone; English and German are welcome. Made a video or an article? Share it in Show and tell, and it gets a link in the documentation.