Dashboards & automation

Screens your family uses.
Automations you never think about.

A smart home succeeds or fails on two things: whether the dashboards make sense to everyone in the house, and whether the automations quietly just work. This is where we spend our craft.

Dashboard gallery

Dashboards designed like apps

Not the default screens: dashboards your whole household actually uses. These are real screens from our demonstration home and from two client homes, a three-storey home in Melbourne and a home in Perth, in dark, light and blue.

Home / Favourites: morning greeting, who's home, lights and everyday scripts on one screen.

The same home dashboard in light mode

A three-storey Melbourne home in light mode. The household picks dark, light, or Auto, which follows the sun. See the project

Wall tablet home dashboard for a Perth home: front door camera, garage, solar and battery, two cars and lights

A Perth home we set up fully remotely: front door, garage, solar and battery, both cars and the lights on one screen. See the project

Music dashboard: now playing, speakers by room and favourite playlists

The Melbourne home's music: what is playing, which rooms it is in, and favourite playlists one tap away. See the project

Climate view: ducted air, room zones, hot water and the alfresco fan.

Cars dashboard with a BYD Seal and a BYD Atto 3, range, tyres and the car charger

The Perth home's cars: a BYD Seal and a BYD Atto 3 with range, tyres and locks, and the charger that runs on spare sun. See the project

Climate dashboard for a three-storey home, light mode

The Melbourne home's climate: hydronic heating and split systems, room by room across three floors. See the project

Energy view: solar, battery, grid and the car, with today's power flow.

Three-storey Melbourne home dashboard

The Melbourne home in dark mode: door and gate cameras, every floor at a glance, garage, pool, car charging and bin night. See the project

Security view: alarm, cameras, doors, garage and who is home.

House dashboard with pool, steam room and server room, light mode

The Melbourne home's house view: pool and heat pump, steam room, the network cabinet and bin night. See the project

Rooms view: occupancy, lights and AC zones room by room, plus outside lights.

House view: system health, media, calendar, vacuum and the shopping list.

Already running Home Assistant and want dashboards like these on your own system? That's our Dashboard Studio add-on, delivered fully remote, anywhere in Australia. And the most-requested upgrade of all: the Wall Tablet Dashboard, an always-on family control panel mounted where the household spends time. Both on the Services page →

Already running Home Assistant?

“I already run Home Assistant. I just want the dashboard.”

Yes, we can do that. We design an app-style dashboard for your wall tablet and your phone, built around your home and installed remotely, anywhere in Australia, for a home that is ready for it.

Free readiness check

Three steps, and no homework

  1. Send us two screenshotsYour Integrations page and your Devices page. Or share your screen with us for 15 minutes and we will look together.
  2. We look at what is underneathNo report to write, no spreadsheet to build, nothing to read first.
  3. You get one of two answers, in writing
    ReadyDashboard only, with a fixed price.
    Needs a tidy firstHA Boost, and we say exactly why. About HA Boost

Why we check first: a dashboard shows whatever is underneath it, so a tidy system comes first.

The core of a smart home

Sensors, not switches

The foundation of a smart home isn't remote-controlled switches; it's sensors. They continuously read the real state of your home and garden, so the house responds to what's actually happening, not a preset schedule.

Temperature & humidity

Your heating and cooling respond to real indoor conditions in each room, not one hallway thermostat's opinion or a fixed timer.

Motion & occupancy

The house knows which rooms are in use: lighting, climate and security adjust dynamically, and empty rooms stop costing you money.

Illuminance (natural light)

Measures real daylight levels, so artificial lights only come on when they're needed, and at the right brightness.

Rainfall forecast (digital sensor)

Not all sensors are physical: the next 12–24 hours of rain forecast feeds straight into irrigation decisions. Why water tonight if the sky will do it tomorrow?

Human vs pet detection

Modern camera intelligence tells a person from a pet from a passing car, so security alerts mean something and the cat stops triggering the alarm.

The result

Together, these turn a manually controlled house into an adaptive system that reacts to real-time data: the difference between a remote control and a smart home.

Automation ideas library

What a smart home does*

Plain-English recipes from real homes. See one you want? Tick it in the quote form.

Energy

Hot water heats when the sun shines

Your heat-pump hot water runs on free solar in the middle of the day instead of overnight grid power.

Needs: heat-pump HWS · solar inverter integration

EV charges in the cheapest window

The car fills up on excess solar or the cheapest tariff window, never accidentally at peak rates.

Needs: EV or smart charger · tariff or solar data

Battery saves itself for the evening peak

Charging and discharge windows tuned to your tariff, so the battery covers the expensive hours.

Needs: home battery integration

Pre-cool on free power

On hot days the house cools itself on solar before the afternoon peak, then coasts through the evening.

Needs: ducted or split AC integration · solar data

Battery force-charges before the weather turns

The battery reads tomorrow's forecast: cloudy day coming, it force-charges overnight in the cheapest tariff window; sunny day coming, it leaves room to soak up free solar instead. Best of both, automatically.

Needs: home battery integration · tariff data · weather forecast (built-in)

Climate that watches the forecast

Heating and cooling respond to the actual outside temperature and the day ahead, with set temperatures that shift through the day on a comfort schedule, not one static number. Running in our demonstration home today.

Needs: AC / ducted integration · weather forecast (built-in)

Room-by-room temperature, without the ducted price tag

Low-cost Zigbee sensors (around $20–30 a room) give every room its own reading, so the system conditions the rooms that need it instead of blasting the whole house. Small hardware spend, real running-cost savings.

Needs: Zigbee temperature sensors · AC or zoned ducted integration

Heat and cool only the rooms you're in

Presence and motion sensors tell the house which rooms are occupied; empty rooms don't get conditioned. One of the simplest energy wins available.

Needs: motion or presence sensors · climate integration
Comfort

Blinds close before the afternoon heat

West-facing blinds drop automatically when the sun swings around, so the room never bakes.

Needs: motorised blinds · sun position (built-in)

Fan before AC

Ceiling fans try first; the AC only kicks in if the room's still warm 20 minutes later.

Needs: smart fans · temperature sensor · AC integration
Garden & outdoors

Watering that watches the weather

Irrigation adapts to sunlight, soil moisture and the next 12–24 hours of rain forecast, so your garden gets exactly the water it needs and never a drop the sky was about to deliver.

Needs: smart irrigation controller · soil moisture sensor (optional) · rain forecast (built-in)

Garden lights on real darkness

Outdoor lighting follows actual light levels and your evening, not a fixed timer that's wrong half the year.

Needs: smart outdoor lights · illuminance sensor or sun position (built-in)
Security

Cameras that know what matters

Real-time monitoring with intelligent detection: a person at the door, not a possum on the fence. Instant alerts by push, email or text, with the clip attached, wherever you are.

Needs: cameras · local detection (Pro hardware), see add-on A2

The "everyone-left" check

When the last phone leaves: garage confirmed shut, doors locked, alarm armed. One notification confirms it all.

Needs: presence detection · smart lock · garage & alarm integration

Lights that pretend you're home

On holidays, the house replays your normal evening lighting pattern, not a fake-looking timer.

Needs: smart lights
Family

"Washing's finished" announcement

The house tells you when the machine's done. No more forgotten wet loads.

Needs: smart plug with power monitoring, or appliance integration

Movie mode

One tap: lights dim, blinds close, TV on, phone notifications hushed.

Needs: smart lights · TV integration · optional blinds

Never miss bin night

The evening before collection, the house reminds you and tells you which bins to put out this week (rubbish, recycling or green waste). A small one everyone ends up loving.

Needs: nothing extra, uses your council's collection calendar

Told your way, wherever you are

Every alert and update, security events, washing done, the shared shopping list, delivered how you prefer: push notification, email or text. You choose per person, per alert.

Needs: nothing extra, built into every setup
Pets

Pet care on autopilot

Food and water dispensed on schedule (and topped up if the bowl runs low), with activity tracking through the day, so you know your pet's fed, watered and moving, even from work.

Needs: smart feeder / water fountain · presence or camera detection

The litter box that keeps notes

Visit frequency and duration logged over time. Changes in routine are often the first sign something's off, giving you an early heads-up that a vet chat might be worth it.

Needs: smart litter box, or a sensor on the existing one

*Every recipe depends on your specific device models and their available integrations. Your quote confirms exactly which of these your equipment supports.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can you design a dashboard for my existing Home Assistant?

Yes. We design dashboards on the Home Assistant you already run, fully remotely, anywhere in Australia. It starts with a free readiness check of your system.

What does a dashboard on its own cost?

It is a fixed price, quoted after the free readiness check, because every home has different devices to show. Ask for a quote.

Do I get a wall tablet and a phone version?

Yes. We design both together, so the household has the same layout on the wall and in their pocket.

Can I ask for changes after handover?

Yes. A dashboard on its own includes one week of change requests after handover. With a care plan, dashboard updates continue after that.

See a recipe you want?

Tick it in the quote form. We'll tell you exactly what it needs and what it costs in your home.

Get a tailored quote