Between you and Smart Home Junkie, I'm beginning to really appreciate the breadth of customization options for a dashboard that can be found in HACS. I definitely see the possibilities that can be had for a good mobile dashboard that provides just the information and control I want in the Home Assistant Mobile App. Now I just need to figure out how to do my two home tablet dashboards, one for my solar power system and the other for my Home information visualization system.
@@jmr Everything Smart home is Lewis' youtube channel! He just made a video on making a dashboard using mushroom cards, check it out his channel is great!
Great video Chris! Finally a helpful video on custom dashboard, I have been struggling with dashboard design and I think this could be the one :) Thanks and keep up the great work!
Chris, as always a very informative video. Overall I enjoy your videos, the only thing that I find unnecessary is that you read your screens word for word. I think that must of your followers can read the screens. thank you for all the work and effort you put into the videos.
These mushroom cards are amazing and make HA look great but is there a way to change the color of the card instead of just the icon based on the state. Not sure if i couldn't find it.
Thank you great 👍 video. Could you please make a video about setting up alarms as I have watched lots of video and none of them make it simple as you do especially I was looking at Alarmo integration but it works some times
Hallo Chris, nice video ! THX. Just a question - is there an option to protect an action with a pin code. Thinking of a vaccation home to protect some actions from "child" use.
This was a great video and I learned a lot. But when you went from dark to light mode, I had to close my eyes for a while 😂. Too many hours tinkering on HA in the dark
Great video! (and starting to look at your other ones) Can you elaborate on the "groups of lights"? I'm new to HomeAssistant and as a 10+ year Vera user, I have a lot of learning to do. This video will be helpful getting a "wife approved" dashboard setup. Thanks!
I just group lights in certain areas. I have one group that is all inside lights that comes on at night when any outside door is unlocked. I have backyard lights group, front yard lights group, etc. You can set groups up in Home Assistant to group entities however you want. For example, you could have a group in an area that all gets acted upon based on an automation or trigger. BTW, I had vera for a short time and after it stopped working randomly all the time, the acceptance factor started to go away so I rushed to something that actually worked (HA).
Love the simplicity of it... Given the dashboard needs to be "approved" by everyone in the house to be used, less is more... Along the same lines I'd love to build a "notification system" that counts the number of events/issues I'm interested in monitoring, e.g. door not locked, window open, garage open, device battery at critical level etc. and simply give me a number on a chip on the dashboard. The number corresponds to the number of issues found. Would be time driven (as opposed to event driven as it's ok for the door not to be locked when we're in the garden for instance). When I click on the chip it brings me to a page showing the issues found... Do you have something like this in your setup?
You can create a dashboard with a view per person and limit the visibility of that view to that person. This way there is no need to seek approval from the rest of the family/residents. Especially for a phone experience.
@@fdelacou How do.you check.fpr.events that need attention? Such as an unlocked door or a sensor batter that needs replacing? I'd like to build something central like the HA home feed card that gets fed with events from the system and pulls it all into one place?
@@meierthomas you can use a conditional card that check for a state. Not sure if you can use an event but most events are state changes so that should do it and then use the card that you want for the events happened.
I'm not aware of any. This sentence on his github probably explains it best: "The goal of Mushroom is not to provide custom card for deep customization. You can use the excellent UI Lovelace Minimalist and Button card plugins for this."
Thanks for this video. The HomeAssistant team sounded jazzed about this. Now I understand why. It looks great and that long press function will be perfect for my 3D printer. You don't want to accidentally cut off power 12 hours in to a 24 hour print! Q.) Do you know a good way to display attributes without installing a custom card? EDIT: I think I found my solution in the Mushroom card add on. Still an add on but this is one I already decided to use so not one I have to install for a single feature. The custom card allows templating it appears.
@@mostlychris Currently I have sensors for each attribute. Unfortunately the number of attributes change so I always have sensors that don't return useful data. I then use an entity filter card to show only the attributes that currently have a useful value. I think one of the mushroom cards might be a decent alternative but I haven't got a chance to set that up. I fell down a different rabbit hole and now it looks like I'm writing a custom add on for the Tablo TV DVR assuming I don't get sidetracked half way through.
I used to run a tablo. I am using HD Home Run with Plex now. If only Tablo would let us record to Plex. It is a great platform otherwise. Also, being a Plex Pass sub gives me the guide for "free".
@@mostlychris I'm a lifetime holder for Plex pass and Tablo's guide subscription so you could say equally invested in those platforms. That said when it comes time to upgrade I don't like the new Tablo 4K options. Tablo sadly gave up on Plex a long time ago. If my Tablo broke today I'd buy an HDHomeRun.
@@mostlychris No, my build is docker compose based under the ubuntu 20.04 server.... I know I cannot directly use hacks, but I still want a way to add these tools... 😁
