After 2,000 releases, sharing the HA dashboard I built for myself.

Quick story. I've been on HA for years. Every couple months I'd start one of those "this time I'll get my dashboard right" sessions.

New cards. New icons. New layout. A cool thing I saw here on the sub. Repeat. Wasted a lot of Saturdays that way.

At some point it hit me — I was decorating my smart home instead of automating it.

So I built Fast Search Card. The name's slightly misleading.
It's not really just a search card. It's a complete dashboard
living inside one Lovelace card. HACS install, one line in YAML, done.

The thing I wanted most was: no dual maintenance. I already named every device in HA. I already grouped them into areas. I already decided what's hidden. The card just reads all of that and builds itself. Add a new light to the kitchen - it shows up. Rename a floor - the sidebar follows. Hide an entity - it's gone.

Roughly what's in it:

- Search-first, fuzzy, with predictive suggestions that learn
  from your clicks
- A Bento-style start screen — live weather, calendar, todos,
  news, favourites at a glance
- A real calendar with day/week/month/year views and recurring
  events (native HA WebSocket, all local)
- Todos that aggregate every `todo.*` backend in your HA
- Real-time energy dashboard
- Music Assistant front-end if you use it
- A device builder for custom views without writing YAML
- Background videos behind the Detail View — drop MP4s in
  `/local/fast-search-videos/` and they just play

Some boring-but-relevant stuff:

- Zero telemetry. Full security audit published on every release.
- Roughly 450 KB gzipped. Boots in under a second.
- No Docker, no add-on, no daemon. The whole thing lives in your browser. Survives HA core updates because there's nothing on the server to break.
- GPL-3.0.

I've been quietly shipping for months — over 2,000 releases in
the public version history now. Built with a fair amount of AI
assistance (mostly Claude, every commit declares it in the footer). Figured someone here might find it useful.

Repo: https://github.com/fastender/Fast-Search-Card

Happy to answer questions. Honest feedback welcome - even the
brutal kind.

Fast Search Card. A dashboard that builds itself from your HA setup.