A Home Assistant wall panel, not a tablet

Most people who want a Home Assistant dashboard on the wall start by mounting an old tablet. It works for a while. Then the battery starts to swell, the kiosk app needs renewing, and the screen keeps drifting back to a lock screen or an advert. HAPanel is the alternative: a wall panel built to do one job and keep doing it.

A tablet on the wall

• The battery swells behind the glass within a year or two, because a tablet was never meant to stay plugged in.
• It stops getting security updates once the maker drops the model, often after two or three years.
• It wants a cloud account, plus a kiosk app you keep paying for.
• It slips off the dashboard and shows adverts, system updates or a lock screen.
• It stays a tablet, so someone keeps picking it up and carrying it off.
• When it breaks, there is no one to call.

HAPanel, built for the wall

• Runs straight from a USB-C supply on the wall. No battery to swell or replace.
• Follows mainline Armbian, so security updates keep coming long after a tablet would be dropped.
• No account and no monthly app. It talks to your Home Assistant on your own network.
• Boots into your dashboard and stays there, even after a power cut.
• A sealed case made to live on the wall, not in your hand.
• Built and supported in the Netherlands, by the people who made it.

What about building my own?

A Raspberry Pi, a touchscreen and a kiosk browser is a fun weekend. It is also a permanent side project: you maintain the image, chase the updates, and fix it when it freezes. HAPanel arrives finished, sets itself up over Wi-Fi, keeps itself patched, and reports its own status so we can help if anything ever goes wrong.

See the two sizes, or read the questions people ask.