Glow Dashboard is a touch-first dashboard for Home Assistant, made for a tablet on the wall and the
phone in your hand. Five questions build it from what your home has; then every card moves, resizes
and swaps by touch. It lives in Home Assistant's sidebar as an app (apps were called add-ons before
Home Assistant 2026.2).
What's in it
- A setup wizard that builds a dashboard from your areas and devices, and fills an empty one with a tap.
- An editor for fingers: drag to move, pull a corner to resize, hold an empty spot to add. Undo is one tap away.
- Found automatically: add an integration to Home Assistant and its cards appear on the page they belong to, with a notice and an Undo.
- Lights that look like light: main lights as big dimmers, ambient ones as glowing chips, WLED strips showing what their LEDs are doing.
- Music Assistant and Spotify: rooms, presets, the queue, big playlists a page at a time, album art kept at home.
- Cameras and alerts: Frigate people and packages, the doorbell full screen, the alarm, quiet hours.
- Looks: six palettes, glass or solid cards, a live sky, aurora or your own photo behind them.
- Made for a cheap tablet: tuned for the Amazon Fire HD 10 and its old browser. Effects step down by themselves when frames drop.
- Every screen in step: dashboards are kept in Home Assistant, so a change on one screen shows on all of them.
Install
- Press the Add to Home Assistant button above, or in Home Assistant go to Settings › Apps,
press Install app, open the ⋮ menu, choose Repositories and add
https://github.com/dawsonjkraai/glow-dashboard.
- Find Glow Dashboard in the store, install it and press Start.
- Turn on Show in sidebar and open Glow. The setup wizard opens by itself.
Apps need Home Assistant OS. Getting started walks through it,
and Wall tablets covers kiosk browsers and the optional no-sign-in
port.
Guides
Privacy
Glow talks only to your Home Assistant, and to the music services' own picture servers for album art,
which it keeps a copy of at home. Nothing is sent anywhere else. The demo house on the website is
made up and runs entirely in your browser.
Licence
MIT. See LICENSE. Glow Dashboard isn't affiliated with Home Assistant or Nabu Casa.
