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

Most mobile SOCs (not all) have excellent video decoders. Have to make sure the streams you’re sending are compatible with said decoder.

Wow I love this house map view haha

switching to the SD feeds helped quite a bit and honestly i should've known better. what do i need camera feeds that are 2" from corner to corner in HD for? PoE screens would've been a better choice.

i need a mini-pc bad. i'm running everything off my gaming PC which is an absolute beast but i need something small that can be always on.

So!

It turns out I’m an idiot (maybe unsurprising to some of you)

I had my picture glance cards using the same camera stream twice somehow. Fixed it and now my camera streams behave perfectly. I ordered a ratgdo to get my garage door in HA and that will finish off my first dashboard.

Very cool!

Your flip card idea is a great way to display allot of info without having too much at one time. I may have to steal some of that.

Curious how you plan to handle the calendar. The data integration was the trickiest part of mine. My work outlook calendar is so locked down I had to do a big work around to get that.. Ended up using Power Automate to write my daily calendar events to a Google sheets at 6am every day then have HA grab that as a csv file every morning to populate my Good Morning dashboard. Every morning at 5am Google erases all the rows so it's only the current events. PA is too stupid to overwrite and just keep appending rows to it.

I'll post the morning dashboard shortly when my TV turns on and displays it at 615am. I love drinking coffee beside the bright and cheerful morning dashboard.

The dewitt weather station integration is SWEET! I love how it automatically switches to the weather radar page when it detects rain outside. The NWS alerts are finally displaying correctly and I left enough space for them.

Also added lightning strikes to the radar loop overlay. Love that! All these storms the last couple of weeks has been perfect for me to dial everything in.

Finally I reworked the Fitbit/Google health dashboard entirely. I was doing a pass through on my phone but Google finished the Fitbit takeover last week so I bit the bullet and fully integrated the Health API which was a pita but now I'm getting more health data points and it's very reliable.

I found the browser was becoming non responsive after a couple of days due to it being shitty and eventually consuming all available ram and coming to a grinding halt. The quick and easy solution was to just have the PC auto reboot every morning so the browser is always fresh and doesn't get weird over time.

I'm about done I think. It feels very professional now and the chefs kiss was the morning and good night dashboards. They really tie the whole thing together.

Eta who am I kidding. This thing will never be done.

I just put our personal google calendars on it. You'd think it'd be one of the simplest things to get wired up, but you have to do a similar labyrinth to everything else.

The real crazy one was my Sensi thermostat. I felt like a hacker after that one! I got approval for the project by telling the wife I can get the baby monitor on it

eta here's the radar loop in action with lightning strike overlay

its so freaking cool. you have to catch it at the right second; those lightning bolts hit (red/white lightning icon) and then instantly turn into the little + icons showing where they hit so you have to be watching to see lightning hit in real time. Watch the first 1-2 seconds of the video.

i had one hit overhead as i was walking the dog this morning and she about lost her mind and so did it. i thought for sure the damn thing hit in my backyard it was so bright.

shite. if i never open crystal reports again in my life it will be too soon.

holy shite what claude model are you using?

makes my whole setup look like dogshit by comparison

to quote captain america "i understood that reference" and about 75% of what you have on here i already know..was just looking at 'ratgdo' and 'konnected' for my friend's garage doors just yesterday.

this looks professional as shite and i got there with mine more-or-less over the last 3 months but holy shite you did as much in a couple of days as i did over several months.

maybe time to cancel chatgpt and give claude another chance.

in the beginning i used claude but he never put something like that together for me..as per usual i'm probably 'doing it wrong' because this is sweet!

It's Opus 4.8 now. I'm building in a Claude Project and I keep 4 different markdown files in the project as information silos. Claude reads them at the start of each new session.

Dashboard-spec.md
Gui-spec.md
Engine-spec.md
Entity-spec.md

I have Claude update whatever file needs updating at the end of each session. He marks what's completed. When I start again, I just say "lets pick up where we left off." I used that HTML to help me build the entity-spec.md today to start using.

In the custom instructions section of Projects you can put things like: I want you to always where these hats- Google app engineer, product design specialist, performance focused programmer, smart home systems integrator. And he'll look at everything through those lenses.

I started following @claudedevs on X and saw a post on using HTML in AI and it's enabled a lot of fun stuff.