Home-Assistant
Supervised Home Assistant in a VirtualBox environment. My use case is a wall mounted Microsoft Surface Pro4 displaying Home Assistant in Full screen Chrome.
Node-Red
- Using Node-Red to check and control the input settings on my receiver and tv and control a Broadlink remote to start different activities to watch TV, Netflix, Disney+ or Plex for example.
- Also using Node-Red to collect the steps counter from the HA companion app on our phones and compare the values to declare the winner of the day! (see below)
Features
- Dynamic 3D Floorplan: brightness mapped individual lights with custom popup controller.
- Dynamic floorplan view, adjusts brightness based on calculated brightness of the sun.
- Less cluttered interface displaying more information on a long press, inspired by Mattias Persson.
- Custom rain card to display predicted rain in the next 2 hours - seperate repo here
Floorplan with controllable lights and heating control
- A different take on designing a Lovelace UI using a Picture Elements Card in panel mode
- Using a swiper card to swipe between ground and first floor
- Camera view that pops up when motion is detected on the driveway.
- Tap on the waste bin to see future dates for waste collection.
Full integration with Tesla Model 3 with history stats, seat heating and HVAC controls:
- Ability to control seat heating and HVAC temperature from HA.
- Updates in the car and from within the Tesla app are visible in HA as well.
Devices with animated custom icons and Dutch Covid-19 stats. In the footer two buttons for updates and HA info.
- Monitor Home Assistant and Network Attached Storage
- Lists available HACS updates and release notes for Home Assistant
Conditionally displaying media player controls based on last active device such as Playstation 4 and Google Nest Mini. If nothing is active for 15 minutes then a poster of last downloaded movie/episode is shown. Swipe to reveal other than last active media players.
Media
- Spotify album art, ability to choose favorite playlists and playback devices
- Other media control of two Sonos Play Ones. A Marantz SR7007 receiver and the Samsung TV in the living room.
- When PLEX is playing a full size image of the cover art is displayed instead.
- During PLEX playback the last added movies and Series are displayed as well.
The sidebar
A Picture Elements Card per view to create dynamic templates.
- Time and date
- Overlay of Spotife media playing
- Temperature in and outside in minigraph
- Christmas decoration when its time :-)
- See household members presence and more-info when pressed
- Ability to deserve a crown based on your amount of steps during the day
- Popup in the side bar a day before the waste is collected showing the waste type
- Other conditional alerts
Weather
Custom card to display projected rain in the next 2 hours, using Buien Radar (Dutch weather service). For more on this card, check out this repo
My community Home Assistant topic
The guys and projects I took my inspiration from are both Mattias Persson and Luke Vink (great thanks to them!)
Mattias Persson Topic
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/a-different-take-on-designing-a-lovelace-ui/162594
Luke Vink Topic https://community.home-assistant.io/t/floorplan-ui-with-color-synced-lights/169417