HomeOS: A Self-Hosted Family Dashboard for Your Kitchen Touchscreen
HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen
HomeOS is an open-source, self-hosted family dashboard designed for a kitchen touchscreen. It centralizes household management by combining chores, grocery lists, reminders, prayer times, and birthdays into a single shared interface. Built with React, TypeScript, FastAPI, and SQLite, it runs on a Linux mini PC via Docker Compose. The project aims to simplify daily family coordination, offering a practical alternative to commercial smart home displays.
HomeOS is a smart family dashboard designed to simplify household management by bringing chores, grocery lists, reminders, and useful information into one shared touchscreen interface.
- kadrian12
This is cool. Yet it reminds me of a recent insight, after hours of conversation with Home Assistant geeks:
Software is not their issue. Display hardware is (but they'd never admit that).
They've usually got all their data in their Home Assistant, tracked by often > 400 individual devices & sensors, visualized in several dashboards. But rarely does anyone actually put that data into their physical spaces, because there's no obvious choice for small-sized screens, long-lasting batteries, cheap, customizable. Something like Trmnl comes close, but is too expensive for most.
So their data stays in the Home Assistant app, mostly accessible through their & their partner's phones and maybe tablets.
If someone manages to build & sell cheap, easily customizable e-ink displays in various sizes, that would enable so much more creativity with custom dashboarding. Imagine every small concern gets their own screen AND their own physical place.
Am I missing some obvious, great solutions to this?
- mikhailbolton
So... not an OS.
- owldown
Cool idea, but anything that doesn’t sync offline is useless for me as a shopping list. It is good to add things to the list while in the kitchen, but the real value is having the list available while I’m inside the walk-in cooler at Costco. Reminders in iOS syncs in the background, and is up to date on my phone and my wife’s phone.