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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Much-Artichoke-476 on 2025-06-29 17:20:20+00:00.
I've had a Home Assistant Green since Jan of this year and basically every week I've been tinkering and tweaking (and buying more stuff), seeing ideas on this sub and starting from scratch again. But this weekend after a week of playing in the evenings (again) I've finally got it to place where I am really happy and wanted to share as I love these types of posts.
The single most valuable thing aside from this group has been ChatGPT, I will bring in a sensor and describe what I want it usually gets it bang on. I sometimes need to do some goolging or reading of documentation ( the graphs) to get it right but a lot of the Mushroom templates that change based on a specific state would have taken me ages!
Not fancy as some of the really cool dashboards I see on here, but this one looks nice on mobile and desktop & over the past week I've been able to quickly get to what I need vs before where I'd be tapping bubbles or pop-ups to get to places and it would take a while.
So what have I got?
This is my main home page:
- Welcome message based on user
- Today's solar stats and current power draw
- Location status of me and my partner
- Lunch and dinner for the day (pulls from Mealie being hosted on my home server)
- Status of all the doors
- Light controls for each room (all on or off and individual lights) along with temp readings and power for any that have those.
- CCTV feed from Frigate of our cameras
- Conditional water leak sensors that will only show if there is a water detected.
Weather tab:
- A text description of the current conditions and a variable that tells me to wear sun-tan lotion if if over a UV of 4 (I think)
- Pollen indicators (I have hay-fever so handy to know!)
- Forecast for the day
- Windy.com iFrame (with Rain as the default)
- Garden temp (from our heat pump), Humidity & UV from weather integration
Power page:
- Current total exported to the grid, power imported, total solar generation and cost of import
- Power flow of the house (solar, grid, battery, hosue draw)
- Todays solar forecast
- next 3 day solar forecast (for planning high power tasks)
- Battery SoC and Battery Temp (off the screen)
Heat Pump page:
- Heat pump status and power draw (heat pump reports this)
- Heating control, status and temp set
- Water control, status and temp set
- 12 hour heating summary
- Power draw summary (been a bit flakey recently)
Status page:
- Turn on and off presence automations to stop the cat turning them on at night
- Cat detection toggle (running frigate, when cat is by the door for more than 10 seconds it announces over my Home Assistant Voice Editions to let her in), she sometimes runs around by the door and keeps setting it off.
- Battery levels of various sensros around the house
- 3D printer status and print progress (all change colour based on state or status, logos, icons and the percentage bar moves)
- Washing machine status
- Network (this is a new tab) with AdGuard DNS protection status and my ZigBee coordinator status to see if there are any issues.
What is not shown?
- Calendar tab, an integration that me and my partner used for a shared house calendar simply using HA's integrated calendar. This is also has an integration that tells me what the next bin day is and what bin I need to put out.
- Various automations based on what the cameras detect (people approaching the house, where our cat is outside)
- All lights are basically based on presence, I have sensors al around the house, which is very nice walking in and our of rooms and they lights just come on if the light levels are low enough.
- Home Assistant Voice Edition previews, currently have 2 hooked up to Ikea speakers which have 3.5mm line in, which has boostd the sound quality (currently printing backets to attach the PA's to). The previews then have tonnes of replies like replying whats for lunch or dinner based on the Mealie integration, custom door-bells sounds & announcements when the battery starts chaging.
What is next:
- I really want to automate my blinds and curtains to auto open in the mornings but powering and mounting all these will be tricky.
- Somehow integrate our cat feeder to be able to feed her and see when she last ate.
Happy to share YAML's of any bits if any of this is interesting for people starting out :)