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Chat links and blog entry about the switch (#2928)

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* Discord -> Gitter blog entry
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In the past the buzz word "Smart mirror" was used a couple of times in our [chatroom](https://gitter.im/balloob/home-assistant) and even made it into the [issue tracker](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/1392). The existing solutions ([Smart mirror](http://docs.smart-mirror.io/), [MagicMirror](http://michaelteeuw.nl/tagged/magicmirror), and [HomeMirror](https://github.com/HannahMitt/HomeMirror)) seems to be overkill if you already have Home Assistant running somewhere in your house or apartment. Why not simple display a web page served by Home Assistant on the tablet? No app and no Raspberry Pi running in the background.
In the past the buzz word "Smart mirror" was used a couple of times in our [chatroom](https://discord.gg/c5DvZ4e) and even made it into the [issue tracker](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/1392). The existing solutions ([Smart mirror](http://docs.smart-mirror.io/), [MagicMirror](http://michaelteeuw.nl/tagged/magicmirror), and [HomeMirror](https://github.com/HannahMitt/HomeMirror)) seems to be overkill if you already have Home Assistant running somewhere in your house or apartment. Why not simple display a web page served by Home Assistant on the tablet? No app and no Raspberry Pi running in the background.
There are plenty of ways to achieve this...[RESTful API](/developers/rest_api/), [Python API](/developers/python_api/), or one of the [history components](/components/#history). If it is to be a web page I'm using the [MQTT Eventstream component](/components/mqtt_eventstream/) and [mqttws31.js](http://git.eclipse.org/c/paho/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.javascript.git/tree/src).