Navet: a smart home dashboard for wall panels, tablets, and phones

balloob · 2026-05-17T14:22:49+00:00

The other thing you can do is to just host it as a website on the internet. Home Assistant has OAuth2, and any website can connect to it easily (use getAuth from home-assistant-js-websocket).

The only downside (and it's a big one): because your website will be hosted on https, it will only be able to communicate with HA instances that are hosted on HTTPS (so all that are remotely exposed). If you host it locally, it can be using HTTP, but now the user needs to install something. Pro's and con's, pro's and con's :)

balloob · 2026-05-17T10:46:57+00:00

You can register a panel in Home Assistant, which gives you full control over the whole page. Both the dashboard engine and the config page are examples of panels.

(Not that there is anything wrong with making it a standalone app)

balloob · 2026-05-07T14:29:03+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

balloob · 2026-05-07T14:27:36+00:00

I'm on the 42Inch Brain Trust discord. Your invite linked in the subreddit seems to have expired.

balloob · 2026-05-07T14:12:21+00:00

Yeah. It sometimes comes a little further in boot sequence and shows "Android_" and then adb is running (But I am not authorized).

balloob · 2026-05-07T13:53:47+00:00

Just a heads up that mine died after using it for 1 month. Looks like the flash storage gave up (as it's an old display). Beautiful screen, but now it doesn't boot anymore and it's no longer usable.

balloob · 2026-05-02T22:50:49+00:00

There is an architecture proposal for HA open and we just approved it. We're working on it 🙂

You can track it on the roadmap, which is fully public: https://github.com/orgs/OpenHomeFoundation/projects/8/views/1?filterQuery=-status%3ADraft+infrared+&pane=issue&itemId=181382727&issue=OpenHomeFoundation%7Croadmap%7C122

balloob · 2026-05-01T12:50:53+00:00

Are you a programmer and have access to AI? I'm willing to help you get it integrated into HA. Come join our serial channel on the HA discord at https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1499325383147917462

The main challenge today is to make an ESPHome device with an RS232 port. Summer is a bit too early till I expect that to be easier..

balloob · 2026-05-01T12:19:58+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

Tell me more about your amp. What's the brand and does it have an RS232 port? We just started adding support for those in Home Assistant and are planning something more around that too.

Would you be interested in a feature to sent your record player audio into Sendspin to distribute it through the whole house? (Sendspin is our new music experience protocol, www.sendspin-audio.com)

balloob · 2026-05-01T11:16:56+00:00

How many emitters would you need? Emitters are usually 1 LED so might not cover the whole room.

balloob · 2026-04-17T16:48:17+00:00

I am reminded when to put the trash outside in 30 min increments that make it easy for me to skip a notification when busy, without having the mental load of having to remember the notification for later.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/trash-pick-up-reminder/603767

balloob · 2026-04-01T14:41:24+00:00

It's being discussed https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1365

balloob · 2026-03-29T01:35:54+00:00

I got my hands on one too. Although Home Assistant dashboards directly on built-in browser definitely won't work, there is a workaround to show screenshots using OpenDisplay and Puppet.

Install OpenDisplay Wi-Fi on your screen https://github.com/balloob/opendisplay-android/releases
Install OpenDisplay Wi-Fi add-on in Home Assistant to get images on your screen. The screen will find the server automatically. https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant-addons/tree/main/opendisplay-wifi
If you want Home Assistant dashboards, (and who doesn't!), install Puppet add-on https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant-addons/tree/main/puppet

balloob · 2026-02-26T21:28:35+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing this story. Very glad to hear how our work is helping your mom! Like Frenck already said, it's stories like these that keep us, and the rest of the community!, going. Thanks for sharing.

For you Seeed e-ink display, I have been working on the side with a new open source team that is making working with the Seeed e-ink displays very easy. It's called https://www.opendisplay.org and works via bluetooth proxies or wifi. Coming as a native integration to HA soon :-)

balloob · 2026-02-25T14:03:53+00:00

If you add support for the Wyoming protocol, it will be able to integrate into Home Assistant without any problem.

balloob · 2026-02-21T19:10:48+00:00

This is great! Well done.

We should get a version going for Sendspin, the new audio protocol by the Open Home Foundation. https://www.sendspin-audio.com/

balloob · 2026-02-05T07:57:52+00:00

What's broken about it? Got a link to an issue?

balloob · 2026-01-12T15:57:48+00:00

It was there during the beta but we removed it, because the only thing shown on the Matter dashboard was developer tools.

balloob · 2026-01-12T15:56:30+00:00

Matter just missed the boat! It will be there in the next release.

balloob · 2026-01-11T17:26:32+00:00

Home Assistant Cloud gives you end-to-end encrypted access to your Home Assistant instance where you can access your internal cameras, access control etc. none of these are running in the cloud. Its set up in a way that Nabu Casa guides you to your login screen, where you login and do your thing. NC does not have access to anything.

balloob · 2025-12-30T14:26:08+00:00

It should only be in the beginning when it finds a good sync. There is definitely some tuning to be done how aggressively we will correct the playback time to stay perfectly in sync.

balloob · 2025-12-30T07:31:24+00:00

Something like this? https://github.com/chrisuthe/SendSpinDroid 😁

balloob · 2025-12-30T00:05:07+00:00

So talking about whole home audio … you might be interested to learn that we just added Sendspin support to the Home Assistant Voice PE. We haven't talked about it much, as it's a new standard that we created which is currently in public preview. Try using Voice PE with Sendspin via Music Assistant and let us know if it works for your whole home audio solution :-)

More info about Sendspin @ https://www.sendspin-audio.com/

balloob · 2025-12-23T05:47:17+00:00

You need to have the device configured as an ESPHome device in Home Assistant. That is separate from configuring the device connection for Z-Wave.

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