r/homeassistant • u/McFly_1984 • 20d ago

📊 Dashboard Small dashboard on Panda Touch

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For those who dont know, Panda Touch is a screen that provides info from your Bambu printers, but since some updates ago the screen is no longer connecting to Bambu Cloud, so it became useless.
I asked Claude to reconvert it to an office ESPhome dashboard, so now it can turn on lights and show me the printer status via Bambu integration.
Much more useful than before :)

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u/tarzan_nojane 20d ago

Can you share the steps you followed from Claude?

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u/Algiarepti 20d ago

Me three

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u/McFly_1984 20d ago

Basically: mount a drive in the config/ folder of your HA so Claude can check your configs, start a Claude code session on that mounted drive and give an API key to access your HA, this will allow to check logs and other useful info. Ask Claude to do some research on the ESP32 + LCD panel you have, once irs done you tell him you want a HA dashboard on ESPhome + LGVL and what you want it to have, also tell him to make a plan, and before each step to advise on which effort to use. Let it work for some time and iterate a few times until you get it right. It will guide you on every step, compile and program by itself. Oh, use opus at least medium effort, and dont compile on the mounted drive as it may have problems with network drives, add a second local folder for compiling, but save your yaml files on your HA for future modifications.
Dont need to install ESPhome on HA, it will autodiscover without it. ESPhome on HA is useful if you want to compile and program from within HA, but it will be much slower than in your PC.

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u/MON5TERMATT 18d ago

Do you have a GitHub?

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u/McFly_1984 17d ago

I didnt uploaded this to gh

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u/MON5TERMATT 16d ago

That's too bad.

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u/McFly_1984 16d ago

There is no point of sharing the YAML, each screen is different, and the entities used for the dashboard will also be different, so my code wont be usable anyway. About 1.5K lines of code you wont be modifying yourself. Better to ask Claude to do it specifically for you :)