Building my PERFECT Smart Home Control Panel!

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

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!

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!

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

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.

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)

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)

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

I have the same tablet used together with home assistant. I will take a look at your design for a wall mount. Very happy you made this design.

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.

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 😂😂

Going down into the spiral of smart homes and my gawd everything looks so great I can’t wait to start on my home!

Love it! Planning to replace my personal Toon Thermostat with something like this. One thing I would suggest is to use a transformer that you could just place near your power socket. Did the same thing for my camera. (220v to 12v) especially for 5v equipment there are a lot of options you could do. Even place a Shelly between it to power cycle it. Good job man 👍

would love to see that doorbell idea. A quick panel showing which family members are currently home (and when they arrived home) would be useful. Also some statistics for the house might be nice, such as how much power has been used in the past 24 hours - and maybe a comparison to see that power usage versus the same period last week.

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

I am just planning my smart home and I think you have done a truly amazing job and I have picked up so many tips from you. Thanks so much

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!

Wow, you have done a nice job there. I went through exactly the same process earlier in the year with a very similar design I made in fusion 360, the number of iterations it took until I had something close to what you managed was crazy. I was never 100% satisfied with it so I bought a professionaly 3d printed one from the US for £60 which turned out to be perfect but the point is the build area and the area where the join is are very difficult to get right, that is a great achievement!

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.

This is so awesome! Thank you! I'm finally encouraged to do this project and be confident it will look great! You're the best!