Navet: a smart home dashboard for wall panels, tablets, and phones

Hey,

I’m launching Navet , an open-source smart home dashboard for Home Assistant.

I built it because I wanted a dedicated control surface that felt good on wall panels, tablets, phones, and desktop screens.

Navet is focused on the devices and rooms you actually touch every day: lights, media, cameras, locks, energy, automations, weather, calendars, sensors, vacuums, RSS/news, notes, photos, maps, and custom dashboard widgets.

A few things it supports today:

  • Room-based home dashboard with editable cards
  • Energy, security, lighting, media, tasks, weather, calendar, people, sensors, and camera views
  • Home Assistant add-on install or standalone Docker deployment
  • PWA support for an app-like experience
  • Import/export for local dashboard configuration
  • Multi-language UI
  • Self-hosted design: your Home Assistant URL, token, entity state, and camera feeds stay in your environment

There’s also a public demo with fake data, so you can try it without connecting your own Home Assistant instance:

Demo: Navet - Smart Home Dashboard
GitHub: GitHub - awesomestvi/navet: Navet (Swedish for "the hub") is a modern, responsive smart home dashboard with intuitive editing and a frosted-glass UI inspired by iOS widgets. · GitHub

Current release is 0.1.1-beta.1, so this is a public beta. I’d especially appreciate feedback from people using tablets, wall panels, or shared family dashboards, since that’s the main use case I’m designing around.

If you try it, I’d love to know what feels useful, what’s missing, and where the setup or dashboard editing flow could be clearer.

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Beautiful but laggy af. I've never seen anything as slow as this. Completely unusable. Only if you're a real masochist.

And the link to the demo site https://awesomestvi.github.io/navet/demo/ is DEAD. 404

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Laggy? on what device?

I haven't had that feedback before. I am surprised because Navet is optimised for low-energy devices. It also has a low energy setting to support them better.

Website: https://navet.app
Demo: Navet Demo
GitHub: GitHub - awesomestvi/navet: Navet is a provider-neutral smart home dashboard with intuitive editing, a polished touch-first UI, and support for Home Assistant, Homey, and openHAB. · GitHub

HA running on a N100 with 10% cpu. Client Lenovo T480s.
It takes MINUTES from click to click

It can't be.. I am running it on raspberry pi 5 effortlessly. We need to investigate this. Can you create a ticket at Issues · awesomestvi/navet · GitHub

Otherwise, can you tell me where are you running Navet? on Homeassistant add-on? or standalone docker?

are there errors in the console and what version you have in Navet > Settings > Project > About