Baby Tracker for Home Assistant

An unofficial integration that connects Home Assistant to the sync group of the Baby Tracker app (com.nighp.babytracker_android). You can see your baby's log in Home Assistant and add to it, and entries sync with the app on your other devices.

It also contains a Python client for the sync API, which was reverse engineered from version 4.53 of the Android app.

Unofficial and partly unverified. Nothing here comes from the app's developer, and the server could change without notice. Reading has been checked against the real server, but uploading has not. See Your first test, and back up your data first.

Requirements

• Home Assistant 2025.1 or newer.
• A sync group, set up in the app's sync settings. Its email and password are what you sign in with.

Install

By hand

From a terminal on the Home Assistant machine, in your configuration folder (usually /config), run this and then restart Home Assistant. Run it again to update.

mkdir -p custom_components && rm -rf custom_components/babytracker && curl -fsSL https://git.asw.io/arne/ha-babytracker/archive/main.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=2 -C custom_components ha-babytracker/custom_components/babytracker

You can also copy custom_components/babytracker over yourself, for example with the Samba or File editor add-ons.

With HACS

HACS can only install from GitHub, so it can't use the repository at git.asw.io directly. To use HACS, mirror this repository to a public GitHub repository, which Gitea can do automatically under Settings → Repository → Mirror settings. Then:

1. In HACS, open the menu and choose Custom repositories.
2. Add the GitHub URL, with the type Integration.
3. Find Baby Tracker in HACS, download it, and restart Home Assistant.

Set it up

Go to Settings → Devices & services → Add integration → Baby Tracker and sign in.

Home Assistant joins the group as one more device, named "Home Assistant". Remove the integration and that device stays listed on the account, because the app has no call that removes a device.

Your first test

The first upload is the one thing that has never been tried against the real server, so start with something easy to remove:

1. Go to Developer tools → Actions and run Baby Tracker: Log journal entry with the text Home Assistant test.
2. Check that it appears in the app on your phone, after the app has synced.
3. Restart Home Assistant and check that it still appears, once, on sensor.<baby>_recent_activity.
4. Delete it in the app. Within about five minutes it should disappear from Home Assistant.

If any step fails, stop uploading and open an issue with what you saw.

What you get

Each baby becomes a device with these entities.

Entity	Shows
calendar.<baby>_log	The whole log, for the calendar view
sensor.<baby>_recent_activity	Time of the latest entry, with the last 20 in its entries attribute
sensor.<baby>_last_diaper	Time of the last diaper, with status and amount as attributes
sensor.<baby>_last_feeding	Start of the last feed of any type, with its details
sensor.<baby>_last_sleep	Start of the last sleep, with end and duration attributes
sensor.<baby>_diapers_today	Count
sensor.<baby>_feedings_today	Count
sensor.<baby>_sleep_today	Minutes
sensor.<baby>_bottle_volume_today	Formula and pumped milk
sensor.<baby>_temperature	Latest reading
sensor.<baby>_weight	Latest measurement
sensor.<baby>_length	Latest measurement
sensor.<baby>_head_circumference	Latest measurement

Entries count towards the day they started on, so a sleep that runs past midnight counts for the day it began. Entries made on other devices appear within about five minutes.

Adding entries

Each of these actions takes optional baby, time and note fields.

Action	Fields
babytracker.log_diaper	status (wet, poopy, mixed, dry), amount (light, normal, heavy, overflow)
babytracker.log_sleep	duration in minutes
babytracker.log_bottle	amount, kind (formula, pumped), unit (ml, oz)
babytracker.log_nursing	left_minutes, right_minutes, both_minutes, finish_side (left, right)
babytracker.log_temperature	value, unit (C, F)
babytracker.log_growth	weight, length, head, units (metric, english)
babytracker.log_bath	none
babytracker.log_joy	none
babytracker.log_journal	note is the entry's text, and is required

• baby: the baby's device or their name. Leave it out if the account has one baby.
• time: when the activity started. Leave it out and the activity is taken to have just finished, so a 30-minute sleep is logged as starting 30 minutes ago.
• Units: these default to your Home Assistant unit system.
• Failures: if the upload fails, for example with no internet, the action reports an error and nothing is saved or retried.
• Response: each action can return the new entry's id.

Dashboard examples

Buttons to log a diaper in one tap:

type: horizontal-stack
cards:
  - type: button
    name: Wet
    icon: mdi:water
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: babytracker.log_diaper
      data:
        status: wet
  - type: button
    name: Poopy
    icon: mdi:emoticon-poop
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: babytracker.log_diaper
      data:
        status: poopy

The log as a list, using a Markdown card. Replace sam with your baby's name:

type: markdown
title: Recent activity
content: >
  {% for entry in state_attr('sensor.sam_recent_activity', 'entries') or [] %}
  - **{{ as_timestamp(entry.time) | timestamp_custom('%H:%M') }}** {{ entry.summary }}{{ ' — ' ~ entry.note if entry.note }}
  {% endfor %}

A reminder when the last feed was over three hours ago:

triggers:
  - trigger: template
    value_template: >
      {{ now() - states('sensor.sam_last_feeding') | as_datetime > timedelta(hours=3) }}
actions:
  - action: notify.notify
    data:
      message: "Last feed was over three hours ago"

Limitations

• Shown but not addable: medication, vaccines, milestones, solid foods and other activities. These pick from lists kept in the app. They do appear on the calendar and in recent activity.
• Not shown: pumping sessions, because they don't belong to a baby. Photos too.
• No editing or deleting from Home Assistant. Use the app.
• Startup: the integration keeps the log in memory and downloads it again each time it starts, so large accounts take longer to load.
• Group resets: if you reset the group in the app, reload the integration.
• Password: Home Assistant stores it unencrypted in its .storage folder, as it does for most integrations. The server has no separate tokens.

Python client

The library works without Home Assistant, and lives inside the integration folder because HACS installs only that folder.

pip install -e .

The server has no way to query records. It stores a database snapshot (the seed) and an append-only log per device. Replica combines them into a local copy.

from babytracker_api import (
    BabyTrackerClient, DiaperStatus, Replica, diaper, extract_seed_db,
    formula, open_seed_db, read_cursors, sleep,
)

# Keep device_uuid stable between runs. A new value is a new device on the account.
client = BabyTrackerClient("you@example.com", "password", device_uuid="<a saved uuid4>")
client.login()

# Build a local copy from the seed.
extract_seed_db(client.download_seed("seed.zip"), "seed.db")
db = open_seed_db("seed.db")
replica = Replica.from_seed(db)
cursors = read_cursors(db)

# Add what happened since. Save `cursors` to continue from there next time.
# include_own is needed here because the seed predates this device's own uploads.
for device, item in client.pull(cursors, include_own=True):
    replica.apply(item.op, item.object)

baby = next(iter(replica.babies.values()))
for entry in replica.entries(baby.id):
    print(entry.time, entry.summary)

# Add records. These need the baby's full record.
client.add(diaper(baby.record, DiaperStatus.POOPY))
client.add(formula(baby.record, 120))                # ml; english=True for fl oz
client.add(sleep(baby.record, minutes=45, note="nap"))

# Change or remove a record. Records are plain dicts.
record = sleep(baby.record, minutes=30)
client.add(record)
client.update({**record, "duration": 40})
client.delete(record)

To check it against your account without changing anything:

BABYTRACKER_EMAIL=you@example.com BABYTRACKER_PASSWORD=... python3 examples/smoke_test.py

See docs/API.md for endpoints, record formats and open questions.

Development

python3 -m unittest discover -s tests

The tests use a mock server written from the same analysis of the app. The integration's tests run against small stand-ins for Home Assistant's APIs in tests/ha_stubs, so they don't show that it works in real Home Assistant. The workflow in .github/workflows, which Gitea Actions also reads, adds Home Assistant's hassfest.