re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!

I got my Beelink EQi12 mini pc in and ported the VM I was working off of over to it this past weekend. Here are some screen shots of the progress i've made on my tiles. I'm waiting to do real UI polish once the 43" touch screen gets here from China.

I put in a hidden control room where I can change settings directly from the touch screen (you have to tap settings 7 times rapidly, like android dev). In there I added a theming system to change the colors of the tiles. I added a chess board for my wife an I to play as we walk past. I'm proud of the thermostat graph that shows how often the ac runs with a percentage and shows the temp set vs actual house temp. Its a shame I cant test out the sports takeover bc LSU is at home. A storm did show up in the Atlantic today.

Video is marked private.

Set it to unlisted instead and then I should be able to see it

Wow that's amazing. Very unusual and very polished. Yes I watched all 3 minutes. You should be really proud of that. How long from initial planning to completion?

Wait maybe I don't want to know

How is the care and feeding? Pretty easy?

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What do you mean by care and feeding?

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adding new panels, fixing crashing issues, handling problems when updates to HA or one of the 2 zillion HACS add-ons breaks or is no longer supported, etc.

eta TOTALLY missed the chess game panel

you seriously have a chess game going?

AI or playing against a friend remotely?

you have inspired me, baw. started this thread with no idea what i was doing and your calm methodical approach is showing me what is possible.

i'm going to use your prompts for my friend's HA setup and hopefully it will be a much smoother process than mine. remind me what model you are using that has worked so well.

since this is new and he already thinks i'm Gandalf, he will buy whatever subscription i tell him to

I use Claude Opus 4.8

What I do is start a conversation with it telling i want to spec out something on the dashboard. And we flesh the whole thing out and at the end, i have it generate a markdown file with everything we decided on.

Then, i start a new chat to have fresh/full context and tell it to execute the spec. I used to keep all the spec files in the project files and had to manually swap them out after updates, but now i have claude tied to my github and he updates everything. The specs include a development roadmap that he updates. So i literally start a chat and say, "whats next" and he displays the table with progress and i tell it what to execute. When he's done, i say "close out" and he updates the specs and commit/push to github. Between that we iterate. If a layout is fricked up i screen shot and tell him what to change or if something isnt working i open the web console and copy paste errors and he figures out the problem, usually on the first time. He can also read logs in HA vie the HA-MCP connector in claude.

When i get home, i can strip personal data from my specs and get them to you so you have an idea of the structure. I'm excited to see what you come up with.

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didnt you say earlier in this thread you have an engineering background?

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Im a lowly project manager for a refractory company nested in an oil refinery. AI is just fun to frick with. I cut my teeth on it and developed my system on an android app im about 90% done with. I still need to finish that

If I can do it, I know you can probably build something better structured.

Here are the SPECIFICATIONS

Read the README!!!

When you get all set up, just drop all that in the chat or project and tell it you want to generate your own specs using that system but the UI is themed not as Windows Phone Metro, but as XYZ/iPhone liquid glass/android material you/mac OS/etc.