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Keep track of the work your home needs.

Meitheal is a task app that opens inside Home Assistant. Keep recurring jobs and projects together, and let automations you set up add tasks when something needs attention.

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/meh-hal/ Irish for a group of people working together.

Example jobs at home

07:00School morning

11:30Gate left open

21:45Last door check

Recurring taskA school-morning task is due in Meitheal.

What you doOpen the checklist, pack the bags and tick off what’s done.

Automation-created taskThe gate sensor has been open for five minutes.

What you doYour Home Assistant rule adds “Check the side gate” to Meitheal. Check it, then mark the task done.

Automation-created taskAt 9:45 pm, Home Assistant checks the back-door sensor.

What you doIf it’s open, your rule adds “Close the back door”. Close it, then mark the task done in Meitheal.

Open it in Home Assistant

Meitheal is an add-on with a web app you can use on your phone or computer.

Start with a job you recognise

Add a task yourself, set it to repeat or configure an automation to create it.

Get a phone prompt if you want one

Set up a notification in the Home Assistant Companion app. The task stays in Meitheal either way.

Run it at home

The add-on is designed to run on your Home Assistant setup. Connected services depend on what you configure.

One configured example

The back door is still open.

A notification tells you what happened. A task gives you something to come back to until the job is done. Here’s how that works with a door sensor and an automation you set up.

Your rule

At 9:45 pm, check the back-door sensor.

If the door is open, call the Meitheal integration to add a task.

The task

Find “Close the back door” in Meitheal’s Today view.

Open Meitheal inside Home Assistant. You can configure a phone prompt separately.

You

Close the door and check the latch.

Mark the task done in Meitheal. You can see which jobs are still open.

Setup

Start with one job.

Meitheal opens from Home Assistant. Use the phone or computer you already use for Home Assistant.

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Pick one job

Choose something you want to remember and write down what done looks like.

Choose when it’s needed

Add it as a recurring task or set up a Home Assistant rule that creates it under a specific condition.

Run through it once

Find the task in Meitheal, do the job and mark it done. If you want a phone prompt, configure and test it separately.

Build up from there

Put other recurring jobs or a project in the same place once the first task fits your routine.

More than the jobs a sensor can spot.

Home Assistant already has to-do lists. Use Meitheal when you want jobs from your automations alongside recurring work, checklists and the steps of a bigger project.

Recurring work

The job: Get the school bags ready each weekday.
How it starts: Set up the task to repeat.
How you finish: Open the checklist and tick off lunch, books and PE gear.

Home project

The job: Get the spare room ready for guests.
How it starts: Create a project and add its tasks.
How you finish: Review what’s left to wash, move or repair.

Automation

The job: Check the back door before bed.
How it starts: Add a task only if the sensor still reports open at 9:45 pm.
How you finish: Close the door and mark the task done.

Routine	The job	How it starts	How you finish
Recurring work	Get the school bags ready each weekday.	Set up the task to repeat.	Open the checklist and tick off lunch, books and PE gear.
Home project	Get the spare room ready for guests.	Create a project and add its tasks.	Review what’s left to wash, move or repair.
Automation	Check the back door before bed.	Add a task only if the sensor still reports open at 9:45 pm.	Close the door and mark the task done.

For the person who remembers.

Someone notices what needs doing, works out who can do it and checks it happened. That’s invisible labour. A task can make the work easier to share.

Chief Home Officer

Hand over bin night, including checking the bank-holiday schedule and dealing with a missed collection.

Executive assistants

Keep the boiler visit, who can approve extra work and the follow-up together.

Read the Journal’s guide to handing over invisible work.

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