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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/MangoScango on 2026-03-06 22:07:22+00:00.
I recently discovered Actual Budget, a self-hosted budgeting tool that supports automatic bank sync, and have fallen in love. Naturally the next step was to integrate it into homeassistant so that I could easily keep tabs on my budget and automate some routine tasks.
While there is a custom integration for Actual, I found it to be kind of lacking and development has stalled. I considered briefly picking up the mantle, but found that everything that I wanted to do could be done without the burden of maintaining a custom integration, using the built in rest_command integration and template sensors.
If you use Actual, check it out. I have examples for setting up basic cards to display your budget and recent transactions. There are also a few automatons to automatically trigger bank syncs, send common notifications, and import transactions automatically from an email inbox. That last one is my personal favorite, because it allows your budget to update in realtime automatically, so you immediately see the impact of that Taco Bell order.