A HAL 9000-themed Home Assistant built up with Claude
A non-coder spent about three months with Claude Code and an MCP server turning a basic Home Assistant install into a HAL 9000-style system with an animated status card.
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Starting from a very basic Home Assistant setup and no coding background, the owner connected Claude through an MCP server, installed the Claude Code add-on and made a plan; the work then grew over roughly three months as new ideas came up.
The centrepiece is a HAL card made of two joined cards: an animated orb with a pulsing halo, and a card of conditional statements whose border changes colour during notable events, with about 98 possible statements across 10 categories. A local language model, set up as an add-on, turns Home Assistant data into one-line comments for the card. The owner says it is all vibe coded and something they could never have achieved without Claude.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: So I embarked on fixing my meager Home Assistant installation into something really 'different'.
The maker's post on r/homeassistant.
The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: So I embarked on fixing my meager Home Assistant installation into something really 'different'. (opens in a new tab)