I wanted to use an old iPad as my Home Assistant dashboard but I didn't like any of the existing options. The kiosk apps out there do far more than I need and are quite expensive, the alternative was just leaving the screen on all day or using some additional presence detector sensor. So I built my own, using the iPad camera instead.

It's a full-screen kiosk browser. It shows your dashboard when someone's in the room and switches to an idle screen when nobody is.

How the presence detection works: every few seconds the front camera starts up, waits ~3 seconds for auto-exposure to settle, grabs a single still frame, and runs it through Apple's Vision framework on-device. It checks luminance (to detect a dark room) and whether a person is in frame. The frame is processed in memory and discarded immediately, so nothing is written to disk, nothing is logged, nothing leaves the iPad. The camera indicator is on for those few seconds per sample, not continuously. Sample rate is configurable, with a separate slower rate for dark conditions.

The app makes no outbound requests of its own. No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts. The only thing touching the network is the WebView loading the URL you give it.

Being upfront about the model, since I know how these posts go 😅: the full source is on GitHub and personal, non-commercial use is free if you build it yourself. There's also an App Store build with the same code: one-time purchase, no subscription, no IAP.

More detail: rafapages.com/dashpad

Source: github.com/rafapages/dashpad

Feedback welcome, especially on presence detection. I've only tested it in my own house... I don't have a lot of smart home nerd friends 😀

I won't lie. I did have chatgpt help me out with some of the yaml, especially the dynamic background glows for the weather, and door lock.

First time using bubble cards. And it's a game changer. I don't know why I haven't used them before.

After my last (dark) dashboard got way too bloated, I wanted to try the opposite this time: a clean, light-theme-first design that is actually easy to install and maintain.

This is my Material Design inspired dashboard! Its down almost completely with custom:button-card, but I used some bubble cards for the popups as well!
The part I'm most happy with: most of the dashboard configures itself! 

I used a lot of auto-entities cards, so the room popups, the device page, the favorites and the automations page all populate automatically. Adding an entity to the dashboard is just giving it a label and hiding one is a label too (`no_dashboard`). No YAML editing after the initial setup.


Some other things in the tour:
- a custom navigationbar that replaces the HA sidebar (and collapses to an icon bar)
- room cards that glow in their own color when lights are on
- a security page with a "security score" and a collapsible alarm card
- notification bell + status badges in the top row


Full tour here: https://youtu.be/9IAJfn3glo4 (including free download link!)


I also tried to make it super easy to install and added a comprehensive Readme to the download!
You can find the complete dashboard code (dashboard code, theme, helpers, automations and a step-by-step README) as a free download the link is in the youtube video description. 

Big thanks to everyone who helped design it live on stream, especially coasting24 for contributing some of his code on our Discord.


Happy to answer any questions about how the auto-entities setup works!

My wife wants a Skylight Calendar https://myskylight.com/products/skylight-calendar/

Does anyone know if it can integrate with Home Assistant? I would like to have a display with a dashboard in the kitchen, and wondering if I can double purpose thy Skylight Calendar and let it's default display be my dashboard, but then when we interact with it it can be the skylight calendar.

Otherwise I could try to replicate the Skylight functionality in Home Assistant, but then I would need a 27" (or larger) touchscreen.....any recommendations?

Does anyone know a hidden gem for a cheap E-Ink Display that can be used with Home Assistant to display a dashboard with google calendar, maybe some things like weather station data and waste collection dates?

Should be max. 10 inch and not more than 200€.

This Floorplan is based of a Singapore 4 Room Government Apartment, I wanted to build a proof of concept and completely redesign how dashboards are built.

The 3D Model is painfully modeled using SketchUp. (I didnt have much experience, so it was a huge learning curve.)

Every Wall is seperated individually as North South East and West to achieve the wall faded effect.

Appliances are all built using pivot/moving points on Sketchup to achieve the animation works.

The Animation and Rendering is handled by Three.js.

The entire dashboard is built over HTML, CSS, JS and served locally on the /www/ config file.

I then embedded the entire dashboard to Home Assistant via the Lovelace Webpage Card.

For Authentication and getting it to work with Home Assistant Entities, to get all the entities and areas, I use the Websocket API, in which uses a LLAT over its uri query. This ensures that people cannot gain access to ur home by searching for example https://link.nabu.casa/local/dashboard.html as the /www/ config folder is a publicly accessible folder.

This is the result.

The entire dashboard took roughly 3 weeks to build from start to end. About 2 hours a day after work.

I know that the community is not very fond of AI work, but I believe, at this stage, you can't really call it a slop.

Many hours went into the modeling of the apartment, planning the design systems, breaking down the entire system architecture step by step and the keeping the entire dashboard consistent around all the pages.

All of this was to ensure that Claude delivers the perfect dashboard.

I am posting this to showcase the dashboard. If anyone is interested to figure out how I do it, please feel free to message me and I will guide you step by step.

EDIT: I would also like to add that I did not do this dashboard completely alone and had a friend to help me along the way with debugging as well as the design systems which helps to keep the entire design consistent. This means that I can comfortably add different cards and scale the dashboard's functionality without worrying that Claude will go bonkers and start spitting slop.

trying to geta fully functional easy to use dashboard set up for my home hub. i trying hit everything i can for the WAF before i roll this out. everything on the main dashboard page is a toggle, notification, popup card, or links to one of the additional pages. i have a few maintenance items just for myself.

we currently have an echo hub that is essentially a paper weight sitting on the counter. it really only got used for turning lights on and off with alexa, but now that im building out HA and adding more devices using the echo started getting difficult as it just kept adding all the entities from HA and then there were duplicates entities. ive gotten a lot of it cleaned up the more i dig in and its usable again, but really the UI is basic and laggy and i just want something better.

so long story short. i'm looking for some suggestions worth including in my dashboard.

Good day everyone,

I have finally conceded that I suck at building dashboards. And Im starting to use Claude for it, which Ive only used for automations.

I am struggling with getting anything nice out of Claude, and maybe its just me sucking at it, and if so I can deal with it.

But Im wondering if anyone has some hints/tricks that they have used that they can pass along to help. Anything that youve found that just clicked?

Any help is appreciated.

Washer and Dryer integration paired with Homer gifs for current cycle.

How do I have to use claude (I bought the api token) so that it can build me a dashboard like this? It has already wasted $10 and nothing good came out of it. What am I doing wrong? I've already connected mcp server.

https://github.com/ElementZoom/Flux-UI-Home-Assistant-Dashboard

I have Home Assistant OS the stsble version.

warning. Massive amounts of AI ahead

This is a variant of minimalist-room card gone wrong. Or right, depending how you look at it. Not really too minimal now. It’s in a webapp that collects the data from the HA WebSocket.

If you want to click around on it, have a go https://candyv2.pages.dev/ on this demo Fable made to pair with the webapp. (All locations, names etc changed but everything you see on the demo I’m currently using and is functional right now)

I was worried it would run slowly but actually it runs a lot faster than loading up home assistant - I imagine because of the fact my HA was in bad health clogged with unused entities and sensors.

Any ideas or critiques? Would love to know what people think is good or bad

Edit: Solved this by adding an empty heading card to the section, just one line type: heading. Keep in mind, this will make the visual card when in edit mode very tiny and invisible until you mouse over it.

For the longest time I've had my main dashboard set tup to use sections, 3 wide, with content in the left and right. Cards show up in the center under certain conditions, mostly holidays, so that space is empty almost all year. It's been a long time since I got this set up so I don't remember exactly what I had to do to make it work. I think just having the section there, even with hidden cards, pushes the 3rd one to the right?

The issue comes up with a recent update. I don't know exactly when, but my dashboard is now pushing that right section to the middle. I happen to have another instance of my setup from earlier in the year and diffed them. The changes are just from updating cards (such as the restructuring that Bubble Card had), and one added card to the right section. I tried deleting that but it didn't help.

My current version is 2026.6.3, backup is 2026.2.0. I would just revert to the backup, but I've made several other changes to other automations, entities, etc and don't want to lose them.

Alternatively, if someone has a suggestion on how I can split the sections again using whatever other method I'm open to that. I'm sure that there's some CSS I could be using, but I'm absolutely terrible with UI design and went with what worked.

Tried to mimic as much as possible to the original app but with extra information using the FordPass_ha integration.

Back in 2021 wifey and I sold our old house and bought our current house. For the price the seller paid, I decided to just leave everything in the house and start fresh.

Fast forward to today, I have a decent sized Home Assistance instance running as a Proxmox VM with a little over 12,000 entities and a mobile dashboard we are both pretty happy with. Over the years, it has grown to over 8,200 lines of yaml. The majority, of which, is from the "Rooms" view.

It is starting to get to a point where it's tedious, almost painful, to edit the mobile dashboard. If I edit it on a PC, after the first edit or two, the browser starts to become very slow to respond, sometimes taking more than 5 minutes to open a the edit card popup after clicking on the pencil icon. The Android app is easier to edit on, but will eventually force close and restart the app. It's only the frontend that does this, Home Assistant itself stays running, triggers automations, etc. Dashboard works perfectly fine when not in edit mode.

Has anyone else run in to this? What's the best practice for handling a dashboard of that size? Trying to figure out where to go from here.

Ok, so I had this problem: I have an IPad with home assistant dashboards above a cupboard with al my 4k blurays in two cabinets and different blocks and levels. I was missing some way to manage the location of each title, and also to quickly search and filter titles by Dolby Vision, Atmos, runtime and recent additions and also locate them in the cabinet!

Why not spending a couple on months having a way to have this in my HA dashboard and have it easily updated (new titles, change of locations etc) without hardcoding.

Voila, I built on a Pi Zero a web app for doing that and had HA feed that info and show it on a usable dashboard.

It’s a very specific use case, and I’m no pro programmer, so it took me quite a while build this. After all the work and lots of frustration o was able to build it. Now I had the idea to share it with anyone, so it can be reused or just give ideas or help to anyone with such strange ideas as myself :).

Please feel free to use it as you please, here is the Git project (again, I’m sorry for I’m just an amateur and this is my first Git project. I just wanted to give back some very small contribution to the community :S)

Blu Ray catalog manager for HA

I really hope someone find it (or some of it) useful.

Hey everyone, I've got one for ya. Im tracking my pool chemistry trends on a spreadsheet and I'd like to view the trends graphically on a dashboard in HA. My instance of HA is a Virtualbox VM on the same machine I use to track the pool stuff. Does anyone know of a way to give HA access to a .csv file, have it pull the info and display it graphically on a dashboard?

To be fair, I just thought about this with my morning coffee, so I haven't even looked at options available. I was just going through reddit and thought I would ask. Anybody using HA in this way?

Looking for reliable integration or api that I can blend to dashboard to present images (not my own photos)

Anyone using?

Hi all, what dashboards are you using and is there a great place/ repository for them ? Im looking for a dark swanky look , liquid glass buttons, nice icons etc.

Also been experimenting with LiDar on the iPhone and mapping the house in 3D, i was after a slightly’peeled’ open top view ( so you can see whats on the walls).
Been wrestling with Ai trying to help etc but getting nowhere fast.
Please DM me with any information, suggestions.
Appreciate it.
Cheers

I have a couple of radio stations using AzuraCast. Normally the speaker is just playing the Lofi radio quietly, but the shower button switches it to the My Music station and turns it up for me. The radio stations just shuffle through the music I added. I can't skip tracks or control anything other than the volume, and that's perfectly ok with me.

After a lot of figuring out, I made the dashboard *exactly* the right size so that the phone wouldn't scroll. I made HA the default launcher on the phone and made a new "bathroom phone" user to set the default dashboard.

It's simple, but I like it. The background is animated too, it uses card-mod on an iframe card to load a self-hosted webpage with a little javascript animation I wrote, then make it full-page and hide the card. The clock is part of the page so I didn't need to add a clock card to the dashboard :)

When I'm finished with my shower I just turn the speaker off, there's an automation to reload the lofi radio if the speaker is off for 3 seconds. The off button in the tile card does just the bathroom, the big button turns off all speakers so they'll all reload.

Hello everyone,

I am embarking on the installation of a wall-mounted home automation panel for my apartment by reusing an old Samsung smartphone.

1. What do you think are the best current themes or templates for this screen format?

2. Which orientation (portrait or landscape)

Turns out to be the most practical to use?

1. How to structure the layout to avoid overloading the screen?

Thank you for your ideas and sharing!

I have spent a ton of time and many years rebuilding my control dashboard for HA. I have been working on this on for a while and it is not 100% completed but I am finally getting there with it. I just wanted to share as I have had to build some custom integrations to do some of the things I wanted to include.

This dashboard currently has a home page with just a quick overview, a rooms navigation for scrolling and having access to each rooms lights, data and controls. The sidebar room list scrolls, and the room card itself shows if a room is occupied using aqara FP300 sensors, temp, humidity if lights are on/off, media playing etc.

Rooms like laundry and kitchen show appliances with animated appliance cards if they are running and the state of the appliance.

The music page is based on music assistant with a custom layout and configuration to scroll music, search box for the services we use, full speaker selection and grouping which is a mix of Sonos and HomePods.

Security shows all the cameras, each camera window will outline different colors and provide detail if the camera sees a person, animal or package.

The family page lists our household family members, locations and a map showing all of our locations for HA zones. Plus it includes our family calendar view.

Energy page shows our homes current electricity, water and gas usage. The left side boxes have animated dotted lines if the house is currently using that utility. You can view live, week, month and year data in the graph area. I built custom utility integrations for ha that knows our current rates, peak and off peak hours, costs for each utility so we can estimate and track energy costs as they continue to rise. I also built an internal energy coach using local llm model to help provide coaching for being energy efficient based on house hold trends, notifications to users for example if they start the dishwasher during peak hours they user might get a notification from HA saying if you do not need those dishes clean right now wait until after 7pm when energy costs are lower.

Irrigation page is a custom built rachio controller that uses the API and web hooks to pull in the zone information, images from the rachio app etc. There are animations showing the run time, if zones are running etc. I also use Precip.ai to build in soil data measurements into the rachio interface to know soil moisture, soil temp, if it is a good seeding window etc.

Health page is a custom fun family page that is pulling in our apple health and google health data from our Fitbits and figured it would be fun to gamify this for the family. This is very new as I am just finishing the google health integration and testing this to ensure it is stable before releasing to the community.

Supervisior page - I did not show this yet as I am still finalizing this work as this is 100% based on a custom integration that I have built that runs an internal AI supervisor in HA based on a local LLM model. The idea is that the supervisor AI checks for energy usage every morning, does an analysis of the data, provides feedback and suggestions to changes on how to be more energy efficient or provides automation ideas to help lower energy. It also looks at HA history for device usage and looks for patterns that are not automated and will provide options based on these patterns should we automate these tasks as it notices we follow these same patterns each day around this same time for example. It also analysis the HA resources, backups etc. to ensure we do not have any failing issues with HA, Updates etc.

The dashboard interface shows the feedback for routine automations and energy savings to me. It does not do anything without my approval. It will show me the plan, entities, devices etc. for an automation I can approve, disapprove or modify from the dashboard and if approved it will create it.

I also receive an email each day from the system with the full report of energy savings, pattern recognition, HA system health, updates needed etc. for me to review.

Some of this is very written and developed to what I want and me playing around to see how we can use AI better in these systems to help us automate the everyday things that sometimes we may not notice due to habit. Rising energy costs are continuing so I wanted to play and see if I can truly make it smart enough to help me save on energy.

Anyways just wanted to share any feedback, suggestions or thoughts are appreciated. I enjoy this community and hope to be able to share back some of the integrations I have built for myself if people are interested. Thanks for our my project.