A smart‑home enthusiast who juggles dozens of platforms turned to Anthropic's Claude AI to tame a fragmented system. After early attempts at an AI‑generated dashboard fell short, the user linked Claude to Home Assistant via the ha‑mcp add‑on. Claude helped discover devices, integrate hard‑to‑connect hardware, create automations and build a clean, customized dashboard—all with natural‑language prompts and supervised approvals. The process reduced weeks of manual configuration to a few hours, demonstrating how generative AI can simplify advanced smart‑home deployments. Read more →