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With Home Assistant 2026.11, HACS is moving into Core under the name Marketplace. Migration, updates, security: here’s what’s ...

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Everybody loves a good smart home dashboard. There are a million different ways to make one, but they typically involve large, rectangular displays. I decided to go in an opposite direction and use an ...

Build a custom smart home dashboard in just two hours using a 13-inch Android tablet, Home Assistant, and Claude AI to bypass ...

Home Assistant keeps getting better and better, and a recent update brings another key improvement to the self-hosted, open-source smart home platform: a revamped “overview” dashboard that’s far ...

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The October update makes paired automations simpler, redraws map, and fixes cluttered profile page.