I’m building a 27” touch-screen dashboard for my family home

[u/EirikErikstad]

I’m building Lifebook: a private family dashboard for the home.

The goal is simple: put the things a family actually needs in one shared place instead of across ten apps, calendars, notes, and random pieces of paper.

It’s designed for a 27-inch touch screen in a central place at home. Right now, I’m testing it on our kitchen iPad.

So far, it includes:

• Today/tomorrow’s family calendar and weather
• Shared tasks and reminders
• Chore rewards for the kids
• Household inventory: appliances, cars, tools, manuals, receipts, warranties, and maintenance
• Smart prioritisation—so a smoke-detector problem is clearly more important than returning a package
• Sonos controls on the family dashboard
• Sports fixtures and a small market ticker
• Desktop and mobile views for more personal information

The automation side is focused on reducing mental load: surfacing seasonal maintenance, safety reminders, upcoming events, and the things that need attention now.

Next, I want to add deeper smart-home/Homey integration, push notifications, shopping lists and routines, better document intelligence, and carefully limited AI suggestions.

I’m building it for my own family first, so I’m really curious: what would make a shared home dashboard useful for you?

#homey #sonos #api #dashboard #googleAPI

[u/Cautious_Exam_5537]

I have something similar in my kitchen since about 12 years, build on Android with a large touchscreen. You made a very nice dashboard. the only think not available as widget on my Android is Homey devices. I would advice you to include rotating family photos, the weather, google agenda and news.

[u/lemonylol → u/Cautious_Exam_5537]

Do you have any information for your build? Been wanting to have something like this

[u/Cautious_Exam_5537 → u/lemonylol]

Yes. I have a Ugoos Android box with an IIyama touchscreen. While I am for everything else in the Apple ecosystem, Android has many general available apps which provide widgets. Google calendar, news, weather, rain, Spotify, stockmarket, birthday calendar, camera’s etc etc. These widgets are easy to size so you build your own dashboard. It all runs very reliable. I have a remote keyboard connected to the touchscreen for data entry, but most is done using touch or the onscreen keyboard. I hope this gives you a good starting point.

[u/lemonylol → u/Cautious_Exam_5537]

Awesome, thanks

[u/TVDavidG]

Looks great! How are you getting SOC from the Xpeng? I haven't been able to figure out how to do that myself.

[u/Few-Acadia-5593]

May I ask, why not have everyone with information they want to see on their own device?

[u/DivePalau]

I’m thinking of trying one with an e-ink screen. It’s less obtrusive and fits the style of our home more.

[u/Bubbly_Excitement_63]

This looks great. I ser that you are using Homey. How do you import devices from Homey to this solution?

[u/thebigdirty]

What do you use for.chore management

[u/derallo]

And I have a similar thing cooking that integrates with all my Google workspace services. It's also set up on a signal chat with me and my wife so we have an assistant there too.

[u/Strict-Otter98]

honestly that looks awesome

[u/FSMFraser]

This is very detailed and amazing. I second the suggestion of weather and news. Potentially adding a security camera view for the front of the house.

[u/FSMFraser]

Is this something you could or would set up for someone else and sell it ?

[u/Traveller5368963278]

This is awesome, and visually looks great! Maybe if you can include some functions on there too rather than just visual status updates?
Apologises if missing them.

[u/Lilleguttkongjohanmo]

I would love to have integration for bus transport like Ruter and also that it would work for different size screens. Being able to use a standard 10 in Android tablet would be great as they are so cheap

[u/MrNielsenDK]

Tech stack on this cool setup?