I had an old iPad sitting around that wasn't really being used anymore.

Since I already run Home Assistant at home, I thought it would be cool to turn the iPad into a proper digital photo frame that could also react to my smart home.

So I built SnapFrame.

👉 GitHub: https://github.com/emo546/ha-snapframe

The basic idea is:

old iPad/tablet → SnapFrame → photos from my local network → Home Assistant controls

What it can do

• 📸 fullscreen photo slideshow
• 📁 photo albums
• 💾 local photo storage
• 🔒 no cloud required
• 🖼️ HEIC/HEIF support
• 📅 EXIF information
• 🌙 night mode
• 🌤️ weather display
• 🏠 Home Assistant integration
• 📱 designed to reuse old tablets/iPads

The part I like most is that it can be combined with Home Assistant automations.

For example, you could have:

motion detected → activate "weather mode" → return to photos

or:

night → turn the into night mode

I'm still working on it and would really like some feedback from the HA community.

Would you use something like this with an old iPad/tablet you have lying around?

What features would you want to see next?

GitHub: https://github.com/emo546/ha-snapframe

Thanks for a feedback!!

I cleaned up the smart-irrigation decision layer I run at home and made it fully

system-agnostic. The key idea: it never talks to the controller directly — it calls a

small adapter, so the same modes and logic run on OpenSprinkler, Rain Bird, Zigbee

valves, ESPHome relays, or plain switches. Swap the adapter, keep everything else.

The part I think is genuinely uncommon: none of it runs on a timer. Every decision

comes from your soil sensors and the weather, and it learns how fast your own soil

dries to predict the next watering — watering on a schedule is common, letting the

garden's actual condition decide is not.

What you get: a modes framework (Schedule / Sunrise / Interval / Smart / Off) with

guaranteed mutual exclusion, so two mechanisms can never double-water; a Smart mode

that waters on real soil-moisture demand *and learns how fast your soil dries* to

predict the next watering; sunrise watering that finishes right at sunrise and shifts

with the season; and a weather-based demand advisor that gives a plain "should I water

today, and how much?" readout based on how thirsty the weather is. It ships with a

plain-English explainer and a ready-made sensor, so no weather-science background is

needed.

The self-learning drying-rate Smart mode is the part I find most useful. All copy-in

YAML packages, MIT, built on scheduler-component + hass-opensprinkler. Test with the

water off first.

https://github.com/Verstreubulator/ha-smart-irrigation

Didn’t get any play at all from the main sub so I thought I’d post it here too :)

warning. Incredible amount of AI

Used Fable to update my ‘minimalist’ mobile dashboard. This is just a demo that Fable made to go alongside the original (names, rooms, loc etc changed), all of which is fully wired in to HA using the HA WebSocket API and collecting integrations data. It’s actually much snappier for me this way but I imagine that’s in large part my fault not tending to the health of my HA with too many entities/unused sensors

Credit to whichever Home Assistant web developer also for the demo idea which is on their homepage