🕌 Nida — Islamic Prayer Times for Home Assistant

Assalāmu ʿAlaykum wa Raḥmatullāhi wa Barakātuh — Iftikhar Farzan Izz Al Din Muhsin

Nida (نداء) means "the call" — a full-featured Home Assistant integration for Islamic prayer times with automatic adhan, pre-adhan reminders, Ramadan features and a beautiful dashboard card.

Prayer times are fetched from the free AlAdhan API — no account or API key required. May Allah reward those who built and maintain it. 🤲

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✨ Features

• 🕐 Prayer Times — Imsak, Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Sunset, Maghrib, Isha, Midnight
• 📅 Hijri Calendar — date, day, month, year and Islamic holidays
• 🔊 Automatic Adhan — plays at prayer time via any media player
• 🔔 Pre-Adhan Reminders — up to 2 reminders with sound and/or TTS message before each prayer
• 🌙 Ramadan Features — Tarhim before Fajr and Suhoor alarm
• 🌙 Night Volume — automatically lower volume after a set hour
• 📱 Push Notifications — receive a notification at each prayer time
• ⏭️ Next Prayer Sensor — shows which prayer is coming up next
• 🎵 Preview Services — test adhans and tarhim directly from the UI
• 📊 Dashboard Card — beautiful card with live countdown timer
• 🌍 15+ Calculation Methods — Muslim World League, ISNA, Karachi and more
• 🗣️ Multi-language — English, Dutch, Arabic, Turkish, German, French, Malay, Indonesian, Urdu and Farsi (Persian).

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📦 Installation via HACS

1. Go to HACS → Integrations → ⋮ → Custom Repositories
2. Add: https://github.com/joohann/Nida
3. Category: Integration
4. Click Download
5. Restart Home Assistant

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⚙️ Configuration

Go to Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration → Nida

The setup consists of 6 steps:

Step 1 — Location & Method

Field	Description	Example
City	Your city	Amsterdam
Country	Your country	Netherlands
Calculation Method	Islamic calculation method	Muslim World League

Step 2 — Pre-Adhan Reminders

Configure up to 2 reminders that play before each prayer. Each reminder can have a sound and/or a spoken TTS message.

Field	Description
Enable reminder	On/off
Minutes before adhan	e.g. 10 or 5
Sound	Optional jingle sound
Language	nl / en / ar / tr
Message	e.g. بعد [minutes] دقيقة حان وقت صلاة [prayer]

Use [minutes] and [prayer] as placeholders in your message.

Step 3 — Fajr Adhan

Separate adhan settings for Fajr (different recitation than daily prayers).

Field	Description
Fajr Adhan Sound	Choose from available Fajr MP3s
Speaker	Your media player entity
Volume	0 — 100%

Step 4 — Daily Adhan

Field	Description
Adhan Sound	Choose from available day adhan MP3s
Speaker	Your media player entity
Volume	0 — 100%
Night volume	Optional lower volume after set hour
Night start hour	From which hour to use night volume

Step 5 — Notifications

Field	Description
Notify at each prayer	Send push notification at prayer time
Send notification to	Select notify service(s)
Title	Notification title
Message	Notification message (use {prayer})

Step 6 — Ramadan

Field	Description
Suhoor alarm	Play a sound before Suhoor ends
Suhoor alarm minutes	How many minutes before Imsak
Suhoor alarm sound	Choose sound
Suhoor alarm volume	0 — 100%
Enable Tarhim	Play tarhim before Fajr during Ramadan
Tarhim Sound	Choose tarhim MP3
Tarhim Speaker	Your media player entity
Tarhim Volume	0 — 100%

Tarhim plays automatically 6.5 minutes before Fajr during Ramadan.

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🔊 Sound Files

Place your MP3 files in the sounds/ folder of the integration. Files are automatically scanned and categorized by name:

Pattern	Type
*fajr*.mp3	Fajr adhan
*adhan*.mp3	Daily adhan
*tarhim*.mp3	Tarhim
*suhoor*.mp3	Suhoor alarm
*jingle*.mp3	Pre-adhan reminder sound

Recommended naming:

sounds/
  adhan_fajr_ahmed_saeed_al-omrany.mp3
  adhan_day_ahmed_saeed_al-omrany.mp3
  ramadan_tarhim_ustaz_hendra.mp3
  ramadan_suhoor_ustaz_hendra.mp3
  nadir_jingle_annoucment.mp3

Sound files are automatically copied to /www/nida/sounds/ on installation so media players can access them without authentication issues.

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📊 Sensors

🕌 Prayer Times

Sensor	Description
sensor.01_imsak	Imsak time
sensor.02_fajr	Fajr time
sensor.03_sunrise	Sunrise time
sensor.04_dhuhr	Dhuhr time
sensor.05_asr	Asr time
sensor.06_sunset	Sunset time
sensor.07_maghrib	Maghrib time
sensor.08_isha	Isha time
sensor.09_midnight	Midnight time
sensor.next_prayer	Next upcoming prayer with time
sensor.last_played_adhan	Last played adhan

Readable versions (e.g. 05:41) are also available as sensor.01_imsak_readable, etc.

📅 Hijri Calendar

Sensor	Description
sensor.hijri_date	Full Hijri date (e.g. 04-09-1447)
sensor.hijri_day	Day number
sensor.hijri_month	Month name (e.g. Ramaḍān)
sensor.hijri_year	Year
sensor.islamic_holiday_today	Islamic holiday today (if any)

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🛠️ Services

nida.preview_adhan

Play an adhan as a preview.

service: nida.preview_adhan
data:
  sound: adhan_day_ahmed_saeed_al-omrany.mp3
  speaker: media_player.living_room
  volume: 0.5

nida.test_prayer

Test the adhan for a specific prayer.

service: nida.test_prayer
data:
  prayer: dhuhr

nida.test_tarhim

Test the tarhim recitation.

service: nida.test_tarhim
data:
  sound: nadir_jingle_annoucment.mp3
  speaker: media_player.bedroom
  volume: 0.4

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📊 Dashboard Card

Nida includes a beautiful custom Lovelace card (nida-card.js) with a live countdown timer that automatically adapts to your Home Assistant light or dark theme.

The card is automatically copied to /www/nida/nida-card.js on installation.

Step 1 — Add the resource (once):

Go to Settings → Dashboards → ⋮ → Resources → Add Resource

Field	Value
URL	/local/nida/nida-card.js
Resource type	JavaScript Module

Step 2 — Add the card to your dashboard:

type: custom:nida-card

Optional configuration:

type: custom:nida-card
theme: auto   # auto (default), light, or dark

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🌍 Calculation Methods

ID	Method
0	Shia Ithna-Ashari
1	University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
2	Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
3	Muslim World League
4	Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah
5	Egyptian General Authority of Survey
7	Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran
8	Gulf Region
9	Kuwait
10	Qatar
11	Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura
12	Union Organization Islamic de France
13	Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, Turkey
14	Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia
15	Moonsighting Committee Worldwide

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🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! Feel free to add new adhan sounds, translations or features.

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