Building my PERFECT Smart Home Control Panel!

In this video I take you through building my perfect smart home control panel with Home Assistant, I have wanted to do this for years and today is finally the day! I take you through my requirements for building my wall mounted smart home control panel, part selection and how I actually built it into my smart home, as well as some Home Assistant automations I have planned for it. I also show you the software for the wall panel too!

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[EverythingSmartHome]

Have you got a wall tablet or planning one? What automations would you do with it?! 😎

[dimitarkrastev]

Looks amazing. I have a very similar setup. A piece of advice. Grab some sand paper, spray paint and clear coat spray. Sand it, paint it, coat it and you will be shocked by the result. You can easily get a result that looks like piano black finish which looks like you bought and not 3D printed.

Its not so hard. Even my first attempt turned out great.

[shivamadarsh]

I am now convinced google can read my thoughts. I have been trying to set up my smart home for about a year now. All this time I was thinking of running home assistant on raspberry Pi using a monitor. One week back I decided a wall mounted Android tablet would be a better choice but i never searched for this specific thing online. But lo and behold YouTube suggests this video out of nowhere. Don't know if it's sheer coincidence or if google is looking out for me 😂😂

[Beamish]

My colleague who is much farther than me with Smart Home was really gutted that he'd not thought of adding a panel to tell him which bin needed to go out on the correct day before I suggested it. He's nailed it. Great videos. Thank you

[ArneVanhove]

Aaah yes, the benefits of having hollow walls. Here in Belgium, almost every house is constructed with bricks, even the walls inside. When I renovated my home 10yr ago I never thought of having a smart home. Now I want a screen on the wall but the only way to achieve that is to create a large slit in the wall. It can be done with minimal dust but you have to have specialized tools.

For now I guess I have to settle with a tablet holder on my living room closet. Nice job on the tablet holder btw!

[ChristianRiesenCom]

Nice video. I had a similar project and went with many of the same steps as you did. One thing though I can recommend to you is in the android settings: Battery Saver mode. Most modern tablets should have that. It will only allow your tablet to charge to a certain percentage (60 or 80 or something like that) which will keep your battery healthy and from balooning up, keeping your installation healthy for years. Then you also don't need to use a smart socket for charging anymore. Depending on the power draw of the smart socket, it can even save you power to just let the charger cplugged in 24/7.

[hartleyelectricalcontracto]

Another power option is to use POE with either a simulcharge or a Poe to usb converter (if you have a data cable nearby that can be repurposed or are able to get one to the location)

[kreene]

My Amazon Fire 10 HD with mbmounts has been a game changer for user acceptance of my family. I got the power kit from mbmounts and Fully Kiosk and it works perfectly. I can even dim/turn off/turn on at specific times of day/night to make it dimmer in the evenings and off in the middle of the night.

[adagioleopard]

The one thing I'd change would be using a magnetic charging cable so you don't need to unplug it when you take it out of the wall.
I'd use the tablet as a tablet sometimes.
(If you want a good one, I have a NXTech cable, I liked it so much I bought 2 extra cables for it, one for my bedroom, one for my livingroom and one for my car)

[XcOM]

Looks amazing, would really love to see the Yaml used to make the dashboard so I can understand how it's done, I am currently messing with custom layouts and struggling to make anything look even 10% as nice

[MarkGhali]

Lewis Great Video! I totally want to have a doorbell press show a full screen camera on screen. walking through that automation would be awesome! Thanks again for all the hard work

[anthonydi]

I ended up going with installing a hinged access panel in the wall with the power supply and some sonoff equipment behind.
An automaton I've set up is 1 button (labeled leaving home) activates the alarm, closes all the shutters, turning off the lights and AC with a 15sec delay on locking the door.

The video door bell pop up idea sounds great!

[TheHookUp]

Looks great, are you still using Frigate for your cameras?

[uSlackr]

Lewis, the panel mount is fabulous. Great work! Watching you work, I'm impressed by how much you are capable of and how quickly you work. I cannot imagine how you fit it all in. Keep them coming!

[xXDarkRevolutionHDXx]

Can you share your home assistant dashboard when you are done with it? It looks absolutely lovely and I'd love to do something similar

[keegansherwood]

Please can you do a video on switching tabs to a full screen camera on an event such as the doorbell

[robt]

Amazing to see, i have the exact same setup for a month or two now.
Galaxy Tab A7 running HA on Fully Kiosk and i must say i'm extremly satisfied with it as well. Tablet quality is amazing, HA runs fast and stable.

Also the screen quality is very good, i use a handfull of high quality images from unsplash to loop as screensavers and it just look so good.

[robinbanks]

Please can you publish the files for the frame, I know you said in the video about the limitations of your printer but the frame looks good on the wall.

[hanh]

Hi :)
I love your dashboard. Do you have a tutorial of your dashboard design? Did you use Minimalist? It would be awesome if you would share how you did it, similar to the video for the mobile dashboard. Thanks!

[horpicaable]

I have been thinking about a tablet more than a smart screen for a long time and discovering your video encourages me to face the project. Thank you very much from Argentina