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People are sharing practical ways to expand Home Assistant’s reach, including integrating new hardware/partners, building Apple Watch-based control, and turning existing home systems (like a NAS) into a dedicated dashboard. There’s also interest in setting up Home Assistant tooling via HACS on common virtualization setups.

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17 September 2013
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Key Takeaway Home Assistant users are rapidly extending it with external integrations—wearables, NAS dashboards, and add-on ecosystems like HACS—to create faster, more centralized control.
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smart home integrations mobile and wearable control NAS and dashboard setup HACS on virtualization works with home assistant
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smart home integrationsmobile and wearable controlNAS and dashboard setupHACS on virtualization
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Home Assistant users are rapidly extending it with external integrations—wearables, NAS dashboards, and add-on ecosystems like HACS—to create faster, more centralized control.

People are sharing practical ways to expand Home Assistant’s reach, including integrating new hardware/partners, building Apple Watch-based control, and turning existing home systems (like a NAS) into a dedicated dashboard. There’s also interest in setting up Home Assistant tooling via HACS on common virtualization setups.

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XDA-Developers · 19m ago
I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
WunderTech · 41d ago
Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker)

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partner announcement Sensereo joins “Works with Home Assistant.”
wearable project Wrist Assistant includes live cameras, complications, and fast Apple Watch control.
dashboard integration Granting Home Assistant access to a NAS turned it into the missing smart home dashboard.
setup focus A guide covers installing HACS on Home Assistant using a Proxmox VM and Docker.

What to Watch

  • Look for additional announcements of new “Works with Home Assistant” partners following Sensereo’s integration. XDA Developers
  • Follow Apple Watch Home Assistant community projects for camera streaming, complications, and faster control patterns. XDA Developers
  • Revisit HACS installation guides for Proxmox VM + Docker setups as tutorials and versions evolve. WunderTech

Recent signals

  • I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing XDA-Developers
  • I built Wrist Assistant: live cameras, complications, and fast Home Assistant control on Apple Watch XDA Developers
  • Sensereo joins Works with Home Assistant XDA Developers
  • Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker) WunderTech
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XDA-Developers · 1 article

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xda-developers.com

Home Assistant's new dashboard editor cuts setup time from 20 minutes to seconds

Create cards to your heart's content.

1d ago Rich Edmonds
xda-developers.com

Home Assistant kept wasting power on my home lab, and this tiny change fixed it

Who knew DNS could be such a problem?

4d ago João Carrasqueira

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Why use anything else?

Bare metal sounds like the best option for anything, really. You wouldn't run your home desktop PC through emulation, would you? The same goes for the smart home with Home Assistant. There's an OS package that runs on just about any hardware that meets the system requirements, and you'll have no trouble hooking up all your smart home devices and other integrations. It all just works. There's no worrying about keeping an underlying OS updated or other software that needs to run in between layers. It's the hardware, Home Assistant OS, and the familiar web UI. For many users of the platform, this

Home Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure
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