Home Assistant Configuration

Hass.io installed on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and my use case is a wall mounted tablet [Samsung 10.1"] displaying Home Assistant in Fully Kiosk Browser and on desktop applicationize (chrome). I've opted for local control only but I expose my configuration to homekit with Apple Tv acting as a hub for remote connection.

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Features

The sidebar

Markdown Card inside a Picture Elements Card to create dynamic templates.

  • Time and date with greeting based on time of day.
  • Lights and switches that are on, using natural language.
  • Temperature with emojis based on weather conditions.
  • Important calendar information.
  • Time since a person left home.

Sidebar footer

The three icons at the bottom in order

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Lights and sensors

All Philips Hue lights with sensors in hallway, bathroom and walk-in closet.

  • Modified (CSS+JS) vertical Light Entity Card for easier touch control.
  • If applicable, show a Light Entity Card color wheel.
  • Custom SVG icons to reflect current color.
  • Brightness percentage in a Circle sensor.

Switches

  • SwitchBot to cold boot computer. Numerous shell commands to monitor and control macOS.
  • Belkin WeMo Switch to control studio monitors (speakers) with automations to apply EQ calibration and volume control through AppleScript.
  • Control a pedestal fan, using Belkin WeMo Switch and hue motion sensor temperature data to automate on summer nights.

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Media

The idea is to conditionally display media player controls based on last active device such as Apple TV, Playstation 4, Spotify or Plex. If nothing is active then a poster of last downloaded movie/episode is shown (Radarr/Sonarr). But since tvOS 13 integration is broken atm I'm putting this as a TODO.