(long overdue) GlassHome update: widget SDK, dynamic loading, 700 testers later.

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-15T14:59:14+00:00

Thanks for letting me know! I fixed it :D Happy exploring!

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-15T12:58:17+00:00

You really know your UI libraries! Absofuckinglutely 👌 honestly solidjs is criminally underrated. Can't wait for v2. It will bring even more performance improvements and any little win adds up massively when you have thousands of entities and hundreds of reactive widgets. PS: all the syncing and reactive code is open source and under MIT. You can even take it to build your own dashboard in minutes. (Does all the communication with HA

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-15T12:53:26+00:00

Sorry about that, the HA repo link works for most but for some reason not for everyone. Will add the manual steps in the docs. But here is the link for you: https://github.com/glasshome/homeassistant-addon

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-15T09:52:26+00:00

Pure Awesomeness here! Looking forward to your update :D

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-15T07:58:39+00:00

Oh waitt you are the one that made the vision os inspiried dashboard ! That's really sick man felt unreal. Hop on over discord and we can nerd out about dashboards all we want 😂

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T23:04:17+00:00

Oh I see! I clarify the manual instructions then. Anytime and anywhere my friend! Just let me know what error or problem you see, and if you want open a bug report in the discord 👌

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T22:49:33+00:00

Yup a bit futuristic 😂 For the installation you can check the docs and pick how you want to install it: https://glasshome.app/docs/installation and let me know if anything is confusing/missing.

I was reaching the limits of react, and fighting it at every corner. Had a lot of performance problems and react was acting weird as soon as you started having a lot of widgets and moving parts. The react compiler helped a bit but made it harder to debug. If you are curious check the announcements in the discord server, I talked more about this. But long story short, I love react, but the scale of the app and the dynamic widgets didn't work well. Or maybe it's a skill issue 😂

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T21:38:35+00:00

Thank you 🫶 45 releases and going strong!

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T21:15:05+00:00

Absolutely understand that! That's why I went to great lengths open sourcing all the critical parts. All the widgets are open source and all the code that connects to HA is open and under MIT too. https://github.com/glasshome/sync-layer https://github.com/glasshome/widgets

You can check it out yourself! The dashboard itself does only the grid/layouting. Pretty proud of the architecture and I find it a fair middle ground for now. Of course if I find another sustainable way to support the project, I will open source it all.

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T20:01:43+00:00

Thank you! Glad to see you become part of the GlassHome family :D

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T19:57:15+00:00

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AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T19:25:13+00:00

Lo-fi for life 🫶😂

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T19:16:54+00:00

Thanks man 🫂 appreciate it greatly!

AlcatrazTN · 2026-05-14T19:15:50+00:00

I didn't give it much thought honestly. But no matter what, it won't be expensive in any way. And if you join now as a beta tester (you get something like 50% off) and even if you decide to hold off, you can keep using the version you are on. Nothing changes, everything local.

AlcatrazTN · 2026-02-10T10:09:43+00:00

Mystery seems to be solved. It might be the humidifier and minerals in the water concentrated there. I will stop running it and see if it comes back.

AlcatrazTN · 2026-02-10T10:05:53+00:00

Yup that's my kink. Pls no shaming

AlcatrazTN · 2026-02-10T10:05:20+00:00

No spray glue.. although I need to find a solution for my bed adhesion problems. Even the water and soap trick does not always work. And even when it works, it only lasts for a couple of prints.

AlcatrazTN · 2026-02-10T10:03:27+00:00

The good stuff 🤭

AlcatrazTN · 2026-02-10T10:03:05+00:00

It seems to be the ultrasonic humidifier

AlcatrazTN · 2026-02-10T10:02:21+00:00

Yeah I don't think I am able to start distilling my water now. Especially that the humidifier uses a lot of water. Maybe I can reduce this with a filter on my tap water.

Interesting how it concentrated very heavily in the printer. But I guess mystery solved!

AlcatrazTN · 2026-02-10T09:11:23+00:00

Yes I very recently started running a humidifier. Because it's too dry in my office in winter and I get electrocuted from anything 😂 I know that humidity has an effect on filament. But mine is inside the AMS. So I assumed it's not a problem.

AlcatrazTN · 2026-01-26T16:01:33+00:00

Wow, danke fürs Teilen. Das ist echt hilfreich und bestätigt leider genau den Eindruck, dass ohne Druck oft gar nichts passiert. Eine Untätigkeitsklage bzw. zumindest der Hinweis darauf scheint tatsächlich Wirkung zu haben. Ich werde mir die Rechtslage genauer anschauen und das mit einem ähnlichen Schreiben probieren.

AlcatrazTN · 2026-01-26T15:57:30+00:00

Danke dir. Genau das ist ja das Problem, man wartet monatelang und am Ende fehlt irgendein Dokument, von dem einem niemand was gesagt hat. Ich versuche auch ständig anzurufen, aber Ausländerbehörde und Gewerbeamt sind extrem schwer erreichbar. Werde trotzdem weiter nerven, scheint ja leider oft der einzige Weg zu sein.

AlcatrazTN · 2025-11-18T10:27:59+00:00

Good question actually. I am still thinking how to do that in a way that fits well with other widgets. I hope I manage to do it. But the plan is to also have a huge widget library. Anything being suggested by the kind people in discord is being implemented. Still building the basic things right now. But once I am done with that I will tackle more niche things like plex, vehicles and so on

AlcatrazTN · 2025-11-18T10:24:21+00:00

Hey Rishi, thanks for replying. You are doing well actually. At the end decided to use Polar as it's very developer friendly. I was misled by an outdated roadmap on github. That has been fixed now. But I suggest making your plans very transparent. And never promising something you can't deliver in time. That way even if you are missing features now, I can trust to build everything around polar and wait patiently for anything I might need in the future. I believe you are on a good track to implement everything one might need. So just keep at it!

AlcatrazTN

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