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Notes on building GlassHome: making Home Assistant look good, wall tablets and kiosks, widgets, and what the registry data actually shows.
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The best Home Assistant dashboards in 2026
Sections, Mushroom, Bubble Card, GlassHome, Magic Frame, or Tunet? A fair look at the best Home Assistant dashboard options in 2026, including where each one falls short (mine included).
Read the postBuild a GlassHome widget
a series in 3 parts, start at the beginning
1Build your first GlassHome widget
A step-by-step tutorial: build a group-aware, dimmable lights tile for GlassHome, the dashboard app for Home Assistant, from empty folder to published widget.
2Widgets that show data over time
Reading Home Assistant history and statistics from a widget, and rendering a different tile at 2x1 than at 3x2.
3Shipping a widget other people install
Capabilities, preview images and config migrations: the three things that decide whether a stranger keeps your widget installed.
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GlassHome vs the default Home Assistant dashboard
Home Assistant's Sections view does drag-and-drop now. So why GlassHome? A comparison of polish, setup effort, wall-tablet use, and price.
- 4 min readComparison
GlassHome vs Mushroom cards
Mushroom gives Home Assistant beautiful cards you assemble yourself. GlassHome is a finished dashboard product. A look at which one fits you.
