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I built an alternative to a normal dashboard with Claude. My goal was to be independent from DAKboard and have something less complicated than MagicMirror because you need a Raspberry Pi for every monitor.
My setup in the kitchen and dining area is a Samsung Smart Monitor M5 27“ with a built in browser. In the living room I use a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 with Fully Kiosk and a printed frame. Both open a separate URL which is the view. The rest runs on my Proxmox in a Docker container.
WebSocket connection to Home Assistant with notifications and a camera popup when the doorbell rings. Otherwise it just shows a nice Immich slideshow with family photos. Transparents is completely vibe coded. Without Claude this would not have been possible :)

Repo: https://github.com/jeremiaa/magic-frame

hey 👋 shared this in r/immich a while back, figured it fits here since the whole thing is vibe-coded.

magic frame is a self-hosted dashboard for wall tablets / monitors / picture frames. photo slideshow (immich/webdav) in the background, widgets on top, and deep home assistant integration — one websocket to ha, every state change pushed live to the displays. doorbell rings → camera widget pops up over the photos and hides itself a few seconds later. ha can press dashboard buttons remotely, notification tiles pop up and fade once youve seen them. all LAN, no cloud, runs on a pi.

repo: https://github.com/jeremiaa/magic-frame

100% vibe-coded with claude, every single line — my job is product decisions, reviewing everything and testing on a spare box before it lands on my familys kitchen monitor. not hands-off though: the ai first built the ha triggers with 15s polling and i had to point it at the websocket bridge that already existed :D

a month in: real users, two community PRs (kubernetes setup + calendar fixes), and a same-evening hotfix when immich 3.0 broke the album api.

always happy about new users and feature requests 🙏

hey 👋

i build magic frame - a self-hosted wall display for home assistant. a tablet, monitor or old screen on the wall, live ha data, all LAN, no cloud, no account.

the idea: it stays calm by default - clock, a photo, or a clean background - and only surfaces things when they matter. doorbell rings → the ha camera pops up. washing machine done → a notification tile fades in, then fades out once you've seen it. motion in the hallway → a view appears for a few seconds, then it's quiet again. you wire what shows up to your ha entity states.

under the hood it talks to ha live over a single websocket (pushed, not polled): entity + sensor tiles (custom colours, history sparklines), buttons that call ha services, a camera widget, notification tiles, and shopping/to-do lists from your ha lists - plus clock, calendar, weather and a photo slideshow (immich or webdav). drag-and-drop editor, multiple views/display.

docker compose, runs on a pi / nas / old pc - it's just a web page, so any browser can display it. v1.1.0 just dropped, and a big chunk of it came straight from community requests.

repo + screenshots: https://github.com/jeremiaa/magic-frame & magicframe.dev

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/magic-frame-self-hosted-dashboard-for-family-boards-wall-monitors-and-picture-frames-with-deep-ha-integration-v1-0-released/1011749

hey 👋 figured this fits here.

i built a self-hosted home display called Magic Frame. one of its core jobs is pulling my own Immich albums onto a screen as a rotating photo frame — connect once with the Immich URL + API key, pick which album rotates per display, new photos show up automatically. all LAN, no cloud, no account.

the part i'm more excited about: the photos always keep running in the background — widgets just sit on top and can be shown or hidden. clock, calendar, weather, shopping/todo lists, and live notification tiles that pop up when something happens at home and fade once you've seen them. so the frame in the hallway is a photo frame first, and surfaces "package delivered" or tonight's calendar over the photo when it matters, then the tiles fade and it's just photos again.

per-view album binding too — kitchen rotates "Family", bedroom shows "Travel", each display its own.

docker compose, runs on a pi/nas/old pc. repo + screenshots: https://github.com/jeremiaa/magic-frame

first OSS project, AI-assisted, happy about feedback 🙏