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
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.
My Home Assistant Wall Tablets, Part 2: Voice, Music and a Smarter Intercom
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.
My Home Assistant Wall Tablets, Part 3: Alerts, Swipes and a Thermostat That Knows About the Attic
The family room tablet learned to show what matters right now: one banner for everything that needs attention, a swipe to peek at what's hidden, and a thermostat card that also controls the attic AC and the basement heater.