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Home Assistant users are increasingly sharing DIY and integration projects—from retrofitting hardware into dashboards to building fully custom smart climate systems. Alongside projects, people are also focused on expanding the platform via add-ons and vendor integrations (e.g., HACS installation and a Sensereo partnership).

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Key Takeaway The main trend is practical, hands-on Home Assistant customization—pairing sensors, hardware repurposing, and add-ons to build real local smart-home systems.
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DIY dashboards Automation projects Integrations and tooling works with home assistant
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AI Brief

The main trend is practical, hands-on Home Assistant customization—pairing sensors, hardware repurposing, and add-ons to build real local smart-home systems.

Home Assistant users are increasingly sharing DIY and integration projects—from retrofitting hardware into dashboards to building fully custom smart climate systems. Alongside projects, people are also focused on expanding the platform via add-ons and vendor integrations (e.g., HACS installation and a Sensereo partnership).

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r/homeassistant · 3h ago
I repurposed an old digital signage touchscreen as a huge physical Home Assistant dashboard, with a custom Lovelace card for Home Cinema
WunderTech · 45d ago
Installing HACS on Home Assistant (Proxmox VM and Docker)

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Local use claim 24 GHz radar neighborhood detector runs 100% local
Climate system components Uses Velux roof windows and LG air conditioners
Dashboard repurpose Digital signage touchscreen turned into a physical Home Assistant dashboard
Software tooling Guide for installing HACS on Home Assistant via Proxmox VM and Docker
Company partnership Sensereo joins Works with Home Assistant

What to Watch

  • Follow r/homeassistant posts for more DIY sensor builds like the 24 GHz radar detector. XDA Developers
  • Watch for more Home Assistant-compatible commercial integrations under “Works with Home Assistant” announcements. XDA Developers
  • Check r/homeassistant and community guides for ongoing HACS install patterns (Proxmox VM/Docker workflows). WunderTech

Recent signals

  • I repurposed an old digital signage touchscreen as a huge physical Home Assistant dashboard, with a custom Lovelace card for Home Cinema XDA Developers
  • Salvaging a Bricked Echo Show 5 (Gen 2) with Home Assistant + LineageOS XDA Developers
  • Built a solar-powered climate control system for my home using Home Assistant, Velux roof windows, and LG air conditioners XDA Developers
  • 24 GHz radar + Home Assistant = my own 24/7 neighborhood radar detector (100% local) OC XDA Developers
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r/homeassistant · 1 article
WunderTech · 1 article

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xda-developers.com

I replaced Google Home with Home Assistant and a local LLM, and I'm not looking back

I've almost retired Google entirely in my home.

24h ago Adam Conway
xda-developers.com

I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing

And that's before you include the cool automations I can create with this setup

4d ago Ayush Pande
xda-developers.com

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

Create cards to your heart's content.

5d ago Rich Edmonds

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r/homeassistant Community · 5 articles

Tracking: I repurposed an old digital signage touchscreen as a huge physical Home Assistant dashboard, with a custom Lovelace card for Home Cinema / Salvaging a Bricked Echo Show 5 (Gen 2) with Home Assistant + LineageOS

I repurposed an old digital signage touchscreen as a huge physical Home Assistant dashboard, with a custom Lovelace card for Home Cinema Salvaging a Bricked Echo Show 5 (Gen 2) with Home Assistant + LineageOS
+3 more Built a solar-powered climate control system for my home using Home Assistant, Velux roof windows, and LG air conditioners 24 GHz radar + Home Assistant = my own 24/7 neighborhood radar detector (100% local) OC Sensereo joins Works with Home Assistant

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Hacker News · u/Vibecoder_ · 

Show HN: Assist Debug Card for Home Assistant

Hi all, I'm playing round with Assist, testing different LLM's, tools, etc. What i was missing from HA is a card which shows the past conversations, including processing times and such.After a bit of experimenting i got …

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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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