# \[APP\]\[Pro\] Prox-Control — Proxmox VE monitoring & control (with widgets)

**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-prox-control-proxmox-ve-monitoring-control-with-widgets/157223
**Category:** Apps
**Tags:** app, homey-pro
**Created:** [July 15, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-prox-control-proxmox-ve-monitoring-control-with-widgets/157223 "2026-07-15T14:21:38Z")
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### Author: ![florz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/florz/32/169626_2.png) [@florz](https://community.homey.app/u/florz)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-prox-control-proxmox-ve-monitoring-control-with-widgets/157223/1 "2026-07-15T14:21:39Z")

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Hi everyone 👋

I’d like to share **Prox-Control** , a Homey Pro app I built to monitor and control a **Proxmox VE** server (or cluster) straight from Homey — VMs, LXC containers, nodes, storage and the datacenter.

Install the test version: [Prox-Control | Homey](https://homey.app/a/com.fbnlrz.pvecontrol/test/)

## Why another Proxmox app?

I started out with the existing integration, but for my homelab I kept hitting its limits and wanted a few things it didn’t cover — first and foremost the new Homey **dashboard widgets**. Rather than work around it, I built a fresh app directly on the Proxmox REST API and went all-in on depth: real per-guest sensors in Insights, full lifecycle control, backups, and even storage balancing. In short, I wanted a Proxmox app that feels like a first-class Homey citizen — widgets, Flow, Insights and all.

## What it does

**Devices**

- Virtual Machine (QEMU) and LXC Container — status, IP address, CPU, memory (% and GB), disk, network in/out, disk read/write, uptime, last backup.
- Node (host) — CPU, memory, disk, swap, load average, running VMs, uptime.
- Storage — usage per datastore (% and used/free GB).
- Cluster — quorum status and aggregate running VM/container counts.

**Control (Flow)**

- Start, shut down, stop, reboot, reset, suspend, resume
- Create and roll back snapshots
- Create backups (vzdump)
- Reboot / shut down a node
- Start / shut down any guest by name without pairing it, and bulk start/shut-down all guests on a node

**Storage disk balancing**

- Move a VM disk or container volume to another datastore from a Flow
- Optional automatic balancer that moves the largest movable disk off a storage before it fills up (dry-run first, one move per run, NFS/SMB excluded as a target by default)

**Dashboard widgets** (Homey 2023+)

- Cluster overview, storage usage, node detail, interactive VM/container control (start/shutdown buttons), and backup status

**Under the hood**

- API-token authentication (no password stored), self-signed TLS handled, one efficient poller per server that fans data out to all devices.

## Setup

1. In Proxmox: Datacenter → Permissions → API Tokens — create a token for a user and give it a role with the privileges you need (auditing for monitoring; power/snapshot/backup for control).
2. In Homey: add a device, enter the host, the token ID (user@realm!tokenname) and the secret, then pick the resources you want.

## Requirements

- Homey Pro (firmware 12.3.0 or newer — required for the widgets)
- A reachable Proxmox VE instance on your network with API access

## Built with Claude Code

Full disclosure: I developed this entire app with **Claude Code** (Anthropic’s agentic coding tool). As a solo homelab project that’s what let me take it this far — from the REST client and drivers to the widgets and the Flow cards. Happy to chat about the experience if anyone’s curious.

## Note

This is an unofficial, community-built app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH. “Proxmox” is a trademark of its respective owner.

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Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are very welcome — I’m actively developing this and happy to hear what you’d like to see next 🙏