Audio

My music setup had accreted into a mess. Across two Kubernetes clusters I was running Navidrome, Lyrion Music Server (LMS), beets, and my own AI radio station (SUB/WAVE) - plus a Raspberry Pi running piCorePlayer wired into a Dayton DAX66 matrix amp for whole-home audio. Four things that all “played music,” none of which talked to each other, and no single place to control any of it from Home Assistant.

My Home Assistant dashboard has evolved significantly over the past year. What started as the default auto-generated cards has become a carefully organized interface that my whole family actually uses. Here’s how I built it, with a focus on the whole home audio system that ties everything together.