danialkhilji

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by danialkhilji 14d ago
Oh nice, I didn't know the firmware and server were open source. I've seen your products on youtube videos but only seen TRMNL as a hardware product with built-in software. Knowing you can flash a cheaper display and run your own
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by danialkhilji 14d ago
Good eye on the colour palette, but that was actually a deliberate design choice. I found the warm ivory theme idea on Dribbble, used ChatGPT to generate mockup images of how it would look applied to HomeOS, and then used Claude to implemen
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by danialkhilji 14d ago
I think Home Assistant is powerful for device control. HomeOS is more focused on family coordination (tasks, shopping, notes, schedules) rather than smart home automation (although my vision is to add device controls too). But the main reas
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by danialkhilji 14d ago
Fair point. Right now it's a household dashboard, but the long-term vision is to connect more things to it such as lights, cctv cameras, media, schedules so it starts to feel like the OS for the family. The name is aspirational for now
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by danialkhilji 14d ago
Yes, my dad actually suggested the exact same thing! I should definitely give it a thought. I'm also planning to use the same Linux machine to serve family photos to our PS4 in the living room — the photos would be on an external hard
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by danialkhilji 14d ago
Thanks! You're right about the text size, it's currently tuned for a 9.7" iPad. On a larger wall-mounted screen the text would definitely need to scale up. The base font is already responsive (14px mobile, 18px tablet) so it
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by danialkhilji 14d ago
Hey HN. I built this to solve a pretty mundane problem — my family is terrible at keeping track of household tasks and shopping lists. We tried shared apps but nobody stuck with them. Turns out the thing that actually works is a screen in t
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HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen(github.com)
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