Home Assistant Wall Tablets in Plain HTML

Replacing the Lovelace dashboards on my wall tablets with small plain HTML pages, then teaching them voice, music and a smarter intercom.

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Rewriting My Home Assistant Dashboards in Plain HTML

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The Lovelace dashboards on the wall tablets around my house were slow and kept reloading, so Claude and I replaced them with small HTML and JavaScript pages that talk to Home Assistant over one websocket. Here's what they look like and how they work.

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My Home Assistant Wall Tablets, Part 2: Voice, Music and a Smarter Intercom

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The plain HTML wall tablets from part 1 learned to listen: the kids' tablets and the family room remote are now voice assistants, have a Music Assistant page, bring up the right page on their own, and update themselves after a change.

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