Building a Custom Home Dashboard with Raspberry Pi

[SarahChen]

## Custom Home Dashboard Project

**Features:**
- Weather display
- Calendar integration
- System monitoring
- News headlines
- Smart home controls

**Hardware:**
- Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB)
- 7" touch screen
- Wall mount case
- Power over Ethernet

**Software stack:**
- Home Assistant
- Grafana
- Node-RED
- Docker containers

**Current status:** Working on weather widget API integration. The touch interface is surprisingly responsive!

 

[CodeWizard]

Looks great! Consider adding:

- Pi-hole statistics
- Network speed monitor
- Security camera feeds
- Energy usage tracking

For the display, check out DAKboard if you want a pre-built solution, but custom is always more fun!