… That’s why it’s best to turn those tablets into a control panel, like a smart home hub, Home Assistant dashboard , or a controller for smart devices. It’ll leverage the same hardware, making it perfectly suited for the job. …
… Sign in to your XDA account Home Assistant is the backbone of our smart home. It manages everything, allows us to track our energy usage, and interacts with all our smart home hardware. It's brilliant, but depending on how it's configured, Home Assistant can quickly become quite the beast to tame. …
… As we've covered before, smart home and IoT hardware can often be among the worst offenders. …
… Chromecast Smart Home Hardware Software Hacks 01 / 8 Hardware Which operating system is typically installed on an old Chromecast to repurpose it as a smart home hub? A Ubuntu Server B Home Assistant OS C Raspbian D OpenWRT Correct! …
… I’ve pinned the Maintenance dashboard to the navigation bar on my HASS instance, but if you’ve just installed the May 2026 update, you’ll find it within the Built-in section of the Dashboards tab inside the Home Assistant Settings page. …
… Fortunately, Home Assistant supports multiple dashboards They’re pretty easy to design, too Although Home Assistant’s automation provisions and blueprints often get the limelight and rightfully so , the ability to design multiple dashboards is a massively underrated feature. …
… UniFi makes my home network easier to handle Life's annoying enough without having to micromanage every part of your home network. …
… Related HACS is an underrated tool for Home Assistant lovers The Home Assistant Community Store is a treasure trove of useful integrations and dashboards Even automations, which may seem overwhelming at first, are surprisingly simple when you use the trigger-action rules instead of coding everythin… …
… He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account There’s a specific kind of home lab confidence that lasts right up until you need to remember where something lives . …
… My phones also double as decent Home Assistant dashboards I use the Bubble Card integration to design mobile-sized UIs While we’re on the subject of dashboards, any smartphone with a functioning screen can display dynamic information, widgets, and buttons from Home Assistant. …