Hassio raspberry pi custom case

I use Hassio on a raspberry pi. Unfortunately all the off the shelf cases for raspberry pi look cheap and not suitable for my living room. I would love to make a CNC milled aluminium cylinder case but that sounds expensive.

The best alternative I came up with is hacking two cheap wall clocks by removing the internals, painting the frames, applying vynil to the glass and bolting them together.



Unfortunately, It was not large enough to include the powered USB hub and z-wave/zigbee USB dongles hence the three cables coming out instead of one.

I painted the frames with a hammered metal effect spray paint. The top glass is covered in a carbon fibre effect car vinyl. The bottom glass is coated with a frosted glass vinyl to allow the led lights to shine out. The two half’s are separated using nuts and bolts to allow for ventilation and lights to shine out.

Just for good measure, I added 4 blue LEDs connected to the Pi’s GPIO pins and spread evenly on the perimeter of the case. These are then controllable via the pigpio plugin and PWM.

I am still trying to work out when to use them. It would be good to make it flash whenever HA turns a light on or off but there does not seem to be any automation triggers for any entity state change. Any suggestions?

I would love to see if anyone else has created any cool/interesting cases for HA controllers please feel free to post replies

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Nice (I wouldn’t put my server in my living room, but if I had to I like it!)

Try looking at the event bus for detecting state change.

Looks great, well done!