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Homelab and smart-home dashboards built with Claude
People use Claude to build wall and homelab dashboards, adding one feature at a time (for example, disk space on a file server) and pasting the code into their existing page.
The full story
Two examples of people building the home dashboard they always wanted with Claude. In the first, a blogger who had been asking Claude.ai for help maintaining a Synology file server went on to build a single page showing everything: server and service status, solar panels, security cameras and the Tailscale network. They added one feature at a time and pasted each new piece into the existing page.
In the second, YouTuber Oliur built a custom smart-home panel in about two hours. It runs on a 13-inch Android tablet with Home Assistant, with live camera feeds and Spotify controls, as a replacement for Apple's limited home view. The tips include choosing a non-OLED screen to avoid burn-in and using a kiosk app to lock the tablet to the dashboard.
Guides and personal posts; results depend on the setup.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- How to vibe code your own custom home dashboard
How one person built a home status dashboard feature by feature with Claude.ai.
- Geeky Gadgets: custom smart home dashboard
Summary of a video build: an Android tablet, Home Assistant and Claude replacing Apple's home view.