When the dashboard loads, a boot-up sound plays while the top cards flicker into place, and from then on a low computer hum loops under everything, punctuated by garbled glitch noises every minute or two. Panels randomly tear and jitter, with grain and scanlines laid over the whole screen. The effect turns the house into a starship, with the main dashboard dressed as MU-TH-UR 6000, the ship computer from Alien, rendered in green monochrome.
What stands out is how it came together. The maker cannot code and built the entire thing with Claude, which worked through the Home Assistant MCP server. Clips from the film went to Claude as visual reference, and the maker iterated by describing what was wanted, asking for more glitch at one point and repeatedly asking to turn the background hum down.
The theming runs deep. Doors and the alarm read as hull integrity, lights as deck lighting, heating as life support, and server stats as the main computer, showing CPU, memory and storage figures plus device connection statuses. Two outdoor cameras drive motion tracker cards styled on the handheld trackers from the films; tapping one opens the live feed, and the trackers ping whenever someone is detected. The header counts who is home as crew aboard and tallies faults, while a neighbouring panel lists dead sensors, offline cameras, low batteries and updates needing attention. There is a purge-all button for the lighting, Weyland-Yutani branding on screen, and a nav panel showing invented mission stats such as range to LV-426.
It is still in progress and aimed mainly at desktop. The maker admits the bottom half of the layout could be arranged better and wants the dashboard to become more interactive. It will not replace the default dashboard either; this one exists purely out of love for those old film terminals, and that shows in every detail.