# Frosted-glass Home Assistant dashboards, no YAML

An Apple HomePad-style wall panel for Home Assistant, built as a HACS card pack: 22 frosted-glass cards, a Now Playing screen, and a screensaver, all configured with clicks.

- Category: Interface (build)
- Made by: [gamergodggpwnd](https://github.com/gamergodggpwnd) on GitHub
- Original: https://github.com/gamergodggpwnd/NotHomeView
- On Afterware: https://afterware.xyz/p/frosted-glass-home-assistant-dashboards-no-yaml

## Can I build this?

- Difficulty: Beginner
- AI-buildability: 5/5 (It's all software: installing HACS cards and themes on an existing Home Assistant setup, with AI able to help with any custom tweaks or styling.)
- Time: An evening
- Cost: $0
- Tools: Home Assistant instance, HACS, tablet or wall display

Estimates based on the original write-up. How the AI-buildability score works: https://afterware.xyz/ai-buildability

## Build sheet

- Platform: Home Assistant (HACS)
- Cards: 22 NotHomeView cards
- Themes: Glass and Light
- Version: v1.30.7

## Starter prompt

```
Based on "Frosted-glass Home Assistant dashboards, no YAML" on Afterware: https://afterware.xyz/p/frosted-glass-home-assistant-dashboards-no-yaml

Help me set up a Home Assistant Lovelace dashboard for a wall tablet using custom cards. Install the card bundle through HACS, add Wallpanel for a photo screensaver and kiosk-mode to hide the header and sidebar. Create a sections view with a light card, a climate card and a media card in a frosted-glass theme, and walk me through the YAML for each.
```

## Story

NotHomeView is a set of Lovelace cards for Home Assistant that aim for the look of Apple's HomePad: frosted glass tiles, a full "Now Playing" music screen, cameras, batteries, people, and a Home Screen with a blurred photo background. The package has 22 cards and two themes, HomeView Glass and HomeView Light, plus two example dashboards.

The cards install through HACS and each one has a visual editor with a Size dropdown, so you lay out the dashboard by clicking rather than writing YAML. Photo screensaver, popups and kiosk mode lean on Wallpanel, card-mod, browser_mod and kiosk-mode, all installable from HACS. Recent v1.30.7 added a Night/Day/Auto theme for device pages that follows the sun.

If you run a wall tablet on Home Assistant, this is the most finished-looking option in the repo: a ready-made visual language you can reskin rather than building every card from scratch.

## Resources

- [Repository](https://github.com/gamergodggpwnd/NotHomeView)
- [Wallpanel](https://github.com/j-a-n/lovelace-wallpanel)
- [browser_mod](https://github.com/thomasloven/hass-browser_mod)
- [kiosk-mode](https://github.com/NemesisRE/kiosk-mode)

Tags: home-assistant, lovelace, custom-card, dashboard, hacs, wall panel

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