tessera
A mosaic of real Tessera screens in every size, from the 2.8-inch CYD to the 10.1-inch Guition: lights, music, the thermostat, the weather, locks, blinds and the vacuum, in light and dark mode

Made for Home Assistant.

A dashboard for
every room.
One simple editor.

Tessera turns affordable ESP32 touch screens into Home Assistant control panels. Set up a screen over USB, then arrange its tiles in the drag-and-drop editor. Built with ESPHome.

Set up your first screenAdd to Home Assistant

Free and open source. No subscription. Available in 9 languages.

A 4-inch Guition on a sideboard, showing room controls beside the lamp it controls
A 4-inch Guition in use, beside the lamp it controls.

See how much fits
on one screen.

Start with the biggest: 10.1 inches of your home, with music, cameras, heating, lights and scenes together. Make a full overview or give a few favourite controls more space.

Try arranging your own tiles

The 10.1-inch Guition with eight rows of controls: music, front door and porch cameras, heating, lighting, weather, graphs, curtains and scenes

10.1″ · The whole-room overview.

Eight rows, with wide music and camera tiles alongside smaller controls. Each tile can take the space it needs.

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Explore six more screen sizes.From the 2.8-inch CYD to the 7-inch Waveshare.

7-inch screen. Solar, battery and grid power, with room for the rest of the house. Shown in dark mode.

7″

Follow your home’s energy.

Solar, battery and grid power, with room for the rest of the house. Shown in dark mode.

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5-inch screen. A wide layout on the M5Stack Tab5. Choose the tiles you want to keep together.

5″

A room at a glance.

A wide layout on the M5Stack Tab5. Choose the tiles you want to keep together.

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4.3-inch screen. Camera, lock and porch light on one page.

4.3″

See who’s at the door.

Camera, lock and porch light on one page.

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4-inch screen. Album artwork, playback and a lamp dimmer on a square screen.

4″

Music beside the sofa.

Album artwork, playback and a lamp dimmer on a square screen.

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3.5-inch screen. A compact landscape screen for the controls you use every day.

3.5″

Keep the essentials close.

A compact landscape screen for the controls you use every day.

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2.8-inch screen. Weather, a timer, coffee and lighting on the CYD.

2.8″

A little kitchen helper.

Weather, a timer, coffee and lighting on the CYD.

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Real firmware renders with demonstration data. Tap an image to enlarge it. Images are not to physical scale. Features and support vary by board; camera pictures require a supported panel.

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Set up a screen in three steps.

  1. Plug it in. A USB data cable into your Home Assistant machine, or into the computer you are using now.
  2. Run the wizard. Pick your board, give the screen a name and click Install. Tessera builds the software and puts it on the screen.
  3. Choose its tiles. The screen joins your Wi-Fi and shows up in Tessera by itself. Drag the lights and devices you want onto it.

The next screen goes the same way. From then on, everything travels over Wi-Fi.

Follow the installation guide

New screen in Tessera, step one of Screen, Set up and Install: every supported board with its size, resolution and touch chip, New and Experimental marked, the 4-inch Guition chosen

The current installation wizard; see all supported screens.

All your screens.
One drag-and-drop editor.

Pick a screen, find the lights and devices you want, and drag them onto a page. Move a tile, resize it, give it a colour. Save & send, and the screen shows it.

Kitchen, hallway and bedroom each keep their own pages, all from the same place.

How pages and tiles work

Tessera with the living room screen open: its pages side by side with their titles and top bars, and the library of the home under them

Tessera Screen Manager, the app in Home Assistant.
Manage your screens from your phone.The same editor, made for a smaller screen.

Tessera on a phone: your screens, each with a preview of its first page

One screen on a phone: its page as the screen shows it and one big Add tile button

A tile tapped on a phone: its icon and pastel background, More settings, Move and Remove

Add tile on a phone: search, the kinds as chips and the home's devices by room

On your phone: the screen as it looks, a tap on a tile to change it, and Add tile.

Try the editor.

This is the editor from Tessera itself, with three example screens in a fictional home. Add a tile, resize it, change its colour or the top bar, and send it to the screen.

Browser demo. Nothing connects to your home, and your changes are gone when you leave. Installing screens, firmware and plugins are in the app itself.

Home Assistant Voice.

Control your lights, set the heating or ask a question. Your Tessera screen listens and answers through Home Assistant Assist.

Set up voice controlCompatible screens

Requires a supported microphone and speaker, plus the Voice assistant plugin (dev app or local build).

A reTerminal D1001 on a desk, with Tessera on its portrait display and built-in microphones and speaker for voice control

reTerminal D1001 · Built-in microphones and speaker. Photo: Seeed Studio · CC BY-SA 4.0. Screen content replaced with Tessera.

Live cameras.
Right on your P4 screen.

See what is happening as it happens. ESP32-P4 screens now play live Home Assistant camera pictures, on a tile or full screen. Tap a camera to take a closer look.

On supported models, a built-in speaker plays the camera's sound in full screen too.

How live camera viewing works

A garden and patio shown in Tessera's camera view on the Guition P4 4.3-inch screen

Camera viewing on the Guition P4 4.3-inch. Firmware render with an example garden photo by Alexander F Ungerer on Pexels.

Live viewing is available on supported ESP32-P4 profiles. Performance depends on your camera, network and Home Assistant host. The reTerminal D1001 and Tab5 can also share their own camera through the Screen camera plugin.

Plugins for your screen.

Add a tile, connect a service or use more of your screen's hardware.

Explore all plugins

Make something for your own home. Create and share a plugin.

A stand for your screen.

Print a stand made for the screen you have. Each one is free on MakerWorld, with a ready Bambu Studio print profile and no supports.

Printed one? A like or a Boost on MakerWorld costs you nothing and helps keep Tessera free.

A reTerminal D1001 on a round white printed base on a wooden desk, showing a Tessera page with the clock, the weather, music, a camera and the lights
Home Assistant tablet baseSeeed reTerminal D1001, 8 inch A round base with a dock, tilted 30 degrees. Two printed rails hold the screen by its VESA holes, with four M4 x 8 mm screws.
The 4-inch Guition in a black printed wedge stand on a wooden table, showing a home page with the weather, a speaker, the airco and two lights
Wedge standGuition 4-inch ESP32-S3-4848S040 A calm wedge that holds the square screen at a comfortable angle. Take the small back plate off the screen first, two tiny screws, then push it in.
The 4-inch Guition in an upright black printed stand on a wooden table, beside a window
Upright standGuition 4-inch ESP32-S3-4848S040 The first Tessera stand, with a small heart in its speaker grille. Push the screen in, no screws.

Controls that feel familiar.

A light looks like a light, with a slider for its brightness. Tap to switch it, hold for more. Everyone at home finds their way.

Controls
Lights, heating, blinds, scenes, music and the vacuum.
Information
Weather, clock, sensor values and meters, history graphs and your home's energy.
At night
Dark mode, night brightness and standby.
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A music tile with album artwork and playback controls, above a table lamp dimmer

Music and lighting

The heating two cells high with its setpoint and modes, the curtains with a slider, and the temperature history

Heating and history

Rendered from the screen firmware with demonstration data.

Your home's power, live.

The energy card shows where your power comes from right now: solar, the grid and the battery around the house, with dots that run faster as more power flows, and the devices that use the most.

It reads the Energy settings you already have in Home Assistant, so there is nothing to set up. Tap a circle for its history. It fits every screen, from the CYD to the 10.1-inch.

How the energy card works

A 10.1-inch Guition with the energy card on nine cells: solar gives 5.2 kW, the house uses 2.5 kW, the battery at 64 % charges and power goes back to the grid, with lines and moving dots between the circles and the heat pump, the fridge, the washing machine and the office around the house; beside it the weather, solar energy today, the EV charger, the battery and two graphs

The energy card on the 10.1-inch Guition, with four devices around the house.
On a smaller screen, too.See the energy card on three more displays.

The energy card on two by two cells of the 4-inch Guition, above solar energy today and the EV charger

The energy card on the 7-inch Waveshare in Dark mode, with four devices and seven tiles beside and under it

The energy card over the whole page of a 2.8-inch CYD standing up, the diagram turned upright

The same card on the 4-inch Guition, the 7-inch Waveshare in Dark mode and the CYD standing up. Rendered from the screen firmware with a made-up house.

Every sensor, a meter.

Show where a value stands as a ring with the tile's icon inside, a tape with one pointer on a ruler, or a bar of LCD cells that fills the tile. Each look fills the room it gets, from one cell to the whole page.

The range comes from Home Assistant or is your own. Keep the sensor's colour, choose one, or let two or three segments turn green, orange and red at thresholds in the sensor's own unit. New in the next release, on the dev channel now.

A 10.1-inch Guition in Dark mode with a page of sensors as LCD bars: the living room at 21.4 degrees on a big amber bar, the office CO2, the bathroom humidity and the phone's battery standing up, the house's power in purple, the CPU, the disk and the memory, the wind, the outside temperature in light blue and the bedroom CO2, whose cells turn from green to orange to red at its thresholds

A page of LCD bars on the 10.1-inch Guition in Dark mode.
Rings, tapes and every screen.See the other looks and the meters on three more displays.

A page of rings on the 10.1-inch Guition: the living room and the solar power with their last 24 hours beside the ring, big rings for the office CO2, the bathroom and the phone's battery, and smaller rings for the computer, the weather, the grid, the fridge and the freezer

A page of tapes in Dark mode in the style of Teenage Engineering: the name in small capitals, the value large and a still ruler over the sensor's range with one pointer at the value

The 4-inch Guition with a ring, a tape, a bar of cells and a ring with its day beside it

The 4.3-inch Waveshare in Dark mode with rings, tapes and a bar of cells

The 2.8-inch CYD with a bar of cells, two tapes and a ring

Rings and tapes on the 10.1-inch Guition, and the three looks together on the 4-inch Guition, the 4.3-inch Waveshare in Dark mode and the CYD. Rendered from the screen firmware with made-up sensors.

Your home.
Your screens.
All local.

The manager runs on your own Home Assistant. The screens talk to it over your home network.

No Tessera server, no account, no subscription.

Your screensYour home networkYour Home Assistant

Installing and updating a screen downloads software. This website and its GitHub login are separate from your screens.

In your language.

Screens and editor speak nine languages, with US and UK English. Time and number formats follow the language you choose.

  • English (US)
  • English (UK)
  • Nederlands
  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • Español
  • Italiano
  • Polski
  • Português
  • Magyar

A word without a translation shows in English.

A screen that fits the room.

From 2.8 inches beside the sofa to 10.1 inches by the door, all in the same editor. You bring the screen and Home Assistant. The software is free.

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JC8012P4A1 firmware render
JC8012P4A1 · Firmware render

10.1 inches

Resolution
1280 × 800
Support
New
Reports of working screens
50

Live camera viewing

49 positive experiences19 experiences with problems

Shared voluntarily from the add-on. About these experiences

Screen details

A maker and a community.

Max, a maker with an eye for design, leads Tessera’s development and maintenance, with contributions from the community. The aim is a screen that looks good and that the whole family uses without a thought for the technology behind it.

About the Tessera name and design

Free and open source.

Firmware and manager are free under the GNU AGPL v3. No subscription, no fee per screen. Read the code, report a problem or help improve it.

Explore the source code

If you would like to help fund development, you can support Tessera.

Ready for your first screen?

The guide takes you from installing the manager to your first tiles.

Open the installation guideAdd to Home Assistant

Running Home Assistant Container? Use the Docker guide.