supergillis/superdash

Superdash turns an Android tablet into an always on wall panel for Home Assistant, the popular home automation platform. Instead of just showing a browser tab, it runs your Home Assistant dashboard full screen as a dedicated kiosk app, keeps you signed in even after restarts, and adds features that make sense for a tablet mounted on a wall. These include hands free voice control that listens for a wake word and sends what you say to Home Assistant's voice assistant, an ambient photo slideshow with a clock overlay for when the tablet is idle, and a pop up camera feed whenever a doorbell rings. It can also use the tablet's own camera and motion sensor as inputs back into Home Assistant, and expose the tablet itself to Home Assistant over a protocol called ESPHome, so switches, sensors, and settings on the tablet can be read and controlled remotely just like any other smart home device. Setting it up means installing a downloaded APK file on an Android 9 or newer tablet with a 64-bit processor, then entering your Home Assistant web address and signing in through the normal Home Assistant login screen. From there you can turn on optional features like voice control, which asks for microphone permission only if you enable it, or set the app to launch automatically when the tablet boots so a wall mounted screen goes straight to the dashboard. The project is openly described by its creator as built largely with an AI coding assistant under human review, is still early stage software, and comes with no warranty. It has not gone through a security audit, even though it does handle login tokens, run background services, and expose a small network server, so the author recommends using it only on networks and devices you trust. Superdash is written in Kotlin, is organized into several smaller packages for things like voice, camera, and the ESPHome server, and is licensed under GPL-3.0.