This is the third article in a series about my DIY approach to wall-mounted home automation dashboards. Choosing the dashboard platform The “heart” of my home automation system is Home Assistant, an open source home automation platform written in Python. Its built-in web frontend is suitable for a dashboard, but only if the only thing you want to control is Home Assistant. I knew from the start that there were going to be several custom components in my dashboard, so my primary requiremen...