The plumbing's done — the alarm's alive, the house is local, the solar's on the wall. So this is the fun list: the ambitious, the playful and the genuinely useful things we can bolt on next, rated by effort and nothing more. Nothing here is committed. It's a menu.
The house runs itself; the panel is how it shows its face. These two are about that face — one practical, one pure theatre.
One tap — or the time of day — swaps the whole panel. The wall tablet already flips its brightness and state by time; this makes the entire layout follow suit, so you only ever see what matters right now.
Still to do: the time-of-day auto-switch and a guest view — and, because the current panel is already built from a theme, an LCARS skin would drop straight in.
A full Star Trek LCARS skin for the panel — the house as a starship's ops console. Tap a system to read it out. It's a mock below, but the numbers are the ones the panel already knows. Pure theatre, entirely doable.
↳ tap a system on the rail — POWER is live by default.
Everything's already reporting in — presence, solar, the sun's angle, the alarm's state. These four just join the dots so the house acts on its own, at the right moment.
The house disarms as your phone reaches the drive and arms itself when the last person leaves — no fumbling for a fob. The trick is to start the disarm early, so the alarm's slow radio never leaves you waiting at the door.
The Victron data's already live — so run the big loads when the sun's up and the battery's full. The washing machine, the immersion, the car: all wait for surplus, and hold back the moment you'd be importing. Free energy, spent on purpose.
Lights that track the sun — warm and low in the evening, bright and cool at midday — with a "last one to bed" sweep that quietly takes the whole house dark behind you.
A believable, lived-in look while you're away: lights that replay your real evening patterns rather than an obvious timer, tied straight to the alarm's armed state so it arms itself the moment you leave.
The instant-disarm key-fob relay is already built — but the panel only reports back six to nine seconds later, so the bridge still confirms an arm against a slow clock. The next step gives it an ear: a tiny circuit tapped onto the panel's own sounder, so Home Assistant hears the confirmation beep in milliseconds and only re-fires the fob if it stays silent. Fast and certain.
Fold the cameras into the panel and a dedicated Security dashboard — the same one the "Security" view above would summon on a tap.
The little stuff — mostly an evening apiece. Filter by how much of a Saturday it'd cost.
Done, and then some: a live power-flow Energy tab with the real costs, savings and a year of solar history. See the Energy page.
Map the three MPPTs to the 2.1 / 6.3 / 4.2 kWp arrays and chart each on its own.
Auto-restart on crash plus start-on-boot, so the wall panel never needs babysitting.
Done: describe a scene or an automation to Luna and it's built, checked by Home Assistant and read back. See Echo Voice.
Replace the alarm panel's dead clock battery so a power cut can't reset it.
Full alarm voice control from a second family member's own account.
Surface the Sense shower's state and chase real control — the BLE teardown is on its own page.
Register for the Fuel Finder API and swap the twice-a-day file for prices that are never more than half an hour old. See the Fuel page.
Ask Luna: the best three near the van, card or pump, and the winner sent to the phone with directions.
Every fill-up is already spotted from the fuel gauge; cost them and chart real miles per gallon, month by month.
After weeks in shadow mode, the energy planner writes its 48-slot schedule to the inverter, and the GX runs it locally with a safe fallback.
Done: a Tron-styled YouTube Music app for Android with Maps controls, widgets and casting, and a house version on the Pi that plays on the speakers by voice. See the Grid Music page.
A notification when the YouTube login expires or songs stop loading, instead of the music just going quiet. Grid Music to-do.
The same queue carries on in another room and the old speaker stops. Grid Music to-do.
Synced lyrics for whatever Grid Music is playing, on the wall panel and the Show's screen. Grid Music to-do.
The queue moves from room to room using the presence sensors. Grid Music to-do.
Nothing that ambitious down here — the big swings live up in sections 02 and 03.
The Quest 3 mixed-reality mapper already pins real devices to real fixtures and controls them in passthrough. Next it earns a catalogue of real 3D objects, a refine step, and — the big one — models that show live state. Full write-up on the Roomscribe page.
Swap the placeholder blobs for a library of real smart-home objects — downlighters, pendants, lamps, switches, thermostats, TVs, speakers, fans. Pick from a category, drop it, then nudge, rotate, scale and snap it to the surface.
Once a pin is a real object it can show the real state: the lamp glows its actual colour, the TV lights when it's playing, the fan spins when it's running, the alarm bulbs pulse when armed. A dashboard you stand inside.
* a weekend after the library exists — the models do the heavy lifting.
None of this is set in stone — it's a menu to graze from. Fancy the LCARS console lighting up the wall, the presence-based geofencing that disarms the house before you reach the door, or a washing machine that quietly waits for the sun? Those three are top of the pile. Say the word and any item here moves off this page and into the plan — same Pi, same no-cloud rules, same weekend energy.