--- title: 4 unique integrations you never thought of using with... description: A roundup of four underrated HACS integrations for Home Assistant: Mail and Packages for tracking shipments on your dashboard, WashData for making dumb washing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/4-unique-integrations-you-never-thought-of-using-with-home-assistant-ky1j42dbh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 4 unique integrations you never thought of using with Home Assistant | daily.dev og:description: A roundup of four underrated HACS integrations for Home Assistant: Mail and Packages for tracking shipments on your dashboard, WashData for making dumb washing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/4-unique-integrations-you-never-thought-of-using-with-home-assistant-ky1j42dbh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KY1j42DBh.png og:image:alt: 4 unique integrations you never thought of using with Home Assistant og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 4 unique integrations you never thought of using with Home Assistant **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A roundup of four underrated HACS integrations for Home Assistant: Mail and Packages for tracking shipments on your dashboard, WashData for making dumb washing machines smart via smart plug energy monitoring, PowerCalc for estimating energy consumption of all devices including non-smart ones, and Watchman for detecting and troubleshooting broken or missing entities in YAML configs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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