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Nodalia Cards 1.1.x stable, 1.2.0 alpha, and Nodalix OS

A few days ago I shipped the stable 1.1.x line of Nodalia Cards. If you have been following the project, this release is the one where the bundle finally feels like a proper baseline: a new Covers card, a round of UX tweaks across existing cards, and fixes that had been sitting in the backlog for too long.

Since that initial 1.1 drop I have been cutting patch releases focused on performance and bug fixes. 1.1.4 is the current stable version on GitHub — nothing flashy in the changelog, mostly the kind of work that keeps dashboards snappy and edge cases from ruining your morning coffee.

What is in 1.1.x

The headline for me was Covers: blinds, shutters and garage doors finally have a card that matches the rest of the Nodalia look and behaviour. Alongside that, 1.1.x carries smaller improvements — motion, layout, editor flows — that add up when you live with the cards every day.

If you are on an older build, upgrading to 1.1.4 is worth it even if you do not need Covers yet; the performance and stability patches are the real reason.

1.2.0 alpha: big ideas, honest trade-offs

1.2.0 alpha is where things get interesting — and where I am deliberately slowing down on one feature.

Visual drag-and-drop editor

I am experimenting with a visual design editor: drag-and-drop layout, WYSIWYG-style tuning without diving into YAML. It is the feature I have wanted since day one, but getting it right — fast, predictable, and elegant on real dashboards — is harder than it looks. I have a working prototype direction, yet I am starting to think it may belong in a later minor rather than blocking 1.2.0. Shipping something half-baked on the most visible surface of the project would hurt more than waiting.

Features I would rather ship sooner

While the editor matures (or moves), I am pushing other ideas that solve daily pain:

  • Climate card — consigna schedules: a dedicated popup to manage heating/cooling setpoint schedules without cluttering the card face.
  • House node — in-home energy flows: a new popup on the house card that breaks down energy inside the home — to individual smart plugs that expose power, and to other appliances where the data exists — similar in spirit to whole-home views, but scoped to what is actually happening room by room.

Both are in active development on the alpha branch. They are less glamorous than a full visual editor, but they are the sort of tools I reach for every day.

Nodalix OS (the parallel track)

Outside Home Assistant, I have been spending time on Nodalix OS: a personal Linux distribution built around Hyprland, backed by a suite of first-party apps I am writing because no stock desktop quite matches how I want to work. Think of it as the same philosophy as Nodalia Cards — own the experience end to end — applied to the machine I stare at for engineering, homelab and side projects.

It is early, opinionated, and very much a labour of love. I will share more when there is something worth installing, not just screenshotting.

How to follow along

  • Stable: install or update to 1.1.4 from GitHub releases or HACS.
  • Alpha: watch the repo and release tags if you want to try 1.2.0 builds; expect rough edges.
  • Feedback: issues and ideas on GitHub are always welcome — especially on whether the visual editor should wait for 1.3.x.

Thanks for using the cards and for the patience while I figure out what deserves to ship next.