Home Assistant's best upgrade costs nothing, but it changes everything
… Then there’s Ultra Card that, despite simplifying the dashboard creation process, can be a massive time sink due to the sheer depth of customization modules available in it. …
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ESPHome's Device Builder finally lets you compile multiple devices at once, and it changes everything
… For someone who builds over 10-15 smart devices, the legacy dashboard felt like a chore to use. …
This free dashboard software made my old tablet worth keeping around
… Pairing that with Home Assistant gives me a customizable dashboard that I can put the important features I want control over, and not be at the mercy of Google, Apple, or Amazon, and what they think I should see on a smart display in my home. …
I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
… On the dashboard front, you can use it to design a custom UI featuring the NAS stats you’d like to monitor in real-time, with certain tools like Bubble Card providing even more customization options for the interface. …
Your Home Assistant dashboard is probably showing you too much — here's how Figma helped me fix mine
… Home Assistant threw another wrinkle at me once I tried treating the result as a normal dashboard. Pointing a dashboard at the custom URL duplicated the sidebar, while making the interface a separate landing URL defeated part of the reason I wanted it integrated in the first place. …
Home Assistant's new dashboard editor cuts setup time from 20 minutes to seconds
… One of the first things a newcomer to Home Assistant may do is customize the dashboard. …
Home Assistant's biggest gotcha isn't YAML, it's your entity names
… This means that every single automation, script, and dashboard card referencing the old entity ID immediately breaks and stops working. …
I built a touch-enabled ePaper Home Assistant dashboard, and it's better than any tablet
… So, I rebuilt the dashboard from scratch, pointed at Home Assistant instead. …
The best new Home Assistant feature in 2026 isn't AI, it's a 433MHz transmitter
… Fire up the 2026.5 dashboard and liberate your old-school ceiling fans and garage doors from their legacy plastic remotes. …
The ESP32 turned out to be the least intimidating way into a hobby that scared me for years
… Instead, I can simply pull up an ESP32, slot in a couple of extra modules, and flash the microcontroller with some custom-written code to build powerful sensor devices that can enhance my Home Assistant hub’s automation provisions and bring some extra statistics to my dashboards. …