2024.8: Beautiful badges!

I experienced a similar issue with 2024.8.3 but clearing the browser cache resolved it for me.

I experience similar problem. I canā€™t put my finger on it but everything seems to be more sluggish. Not very responsive as normal. I thought I lost my device classification. I didnā€™t but it took forever to load them somehow. For sure there is something weird. I have also rolled back to 2024.7.3. Things are normal.

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Exactly the issue I had. Device classifications get lost. But if you wait long enough they pop back without interference.

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Can anyone help me to find documentation for the previous version of the badges?

Badges - Home Assistant (archive.org)

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I wish I could revert, since updating to the latest my Pi keeps rebooting, I cant get to logs or anything meaningful. Once Home Assistant has started you click on anything and get either a blank page or page unavailable message.

I can sometimes get into the backups but when I try to restore it says cannot restore while its rebooting.

Does this match your experience too?

Help needed: 2024.8 Core update unstable on RPi4, connection lost and crashes host, no issue on 2024.7 - Configuration - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

Agreed, I like the new badges, but the space below the badges is too much.

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Yes similar

I also had to revert to 2024.8.2. from 2024.8.3. I added an input_boolean helper and when I tried to add that to a new button on my Sections dashboard it was unavailable. I was able to toggle it on and off in the Developer Tools tab but the button on the dashboard could not find the entity. I reverted back to 2024.8.2 and the button now finds the helper entity

I would suggest you to create a separate thread in Configuration ā†’ Frontend about your issue since this may be not related to 2024.8 and can be explained.

I spent a lot of time learning Card Mod CSS, going through tons of pages, and perfecting my badges. I think they look great comapratively, so itā€™s frustrating to see all that effort go to waste with these new badges. Canā€™t we keep both? People who want to use the new ones can, but maybe we could call them ā€œchipsā€ or ā€œstickersā€ and leave the old badges as they are. It would have been nice to get a heads-up that this change was coming.

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Mods unfortunately are at your own risk.

Please read the thread.

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I donā€™t typically comment on changes, but I need to say my piece: The badges just donā€™t do it for me. Great idea to freshen them up, but the inconsistency in width of badges, based on the content of the badge, runs contrary to most UI/UX design standards in 2024. It makes it harder to read and get information at a glance, which is the use case for most folks using badges. As well, the misalignment is messy.

What used to be 10 neatly aligned icons in two rows is now a jumbled, harder to comprehend, pile of badges. Iā€™m assuming (that is, Iā€™m hoping) there will be some enhancements to make the badges beautiful. Right now, to me, theyā€™re not beautiful.

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I feel the sameā€¦ Iā€™m truly HATING the new badges. See pics old & new.

Old - Cleaner and less room on the app

New - Takes more than one page. Looks cluttered. Harder to read

Hopefully someone will listen to usā€¦

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My opinion must be controversial I guessā€¦ I never liked the old badges all that much as they look outdated so I stopped using them years ago. I donā€™t mind the new ones so have a few of them now.

Anyway, given that the option to use the old ones still exists I think everyone needs to stop whinging about it.

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Yeah, I would hope so.

HA has always been good about improving things, and Iā€™m guessing this was a first attempt. There are enough negative reactions on this blog that would suggest it really needs to be revisited so Iā€™m guessing theyā€™ll want to. Really, it needs improvement.

Until that time comes, Iā€™ve downgraded back to 2024.6.4 (the docker image I was running prior to upgrading to 2024.8.3).

The badges, as they have been redesigned, just donā€™t do it for me. Itā€™s a deal breaker; itā€™s even worse on my mobile phone.

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From another side - given the fact the ā€œold onesā€ emulated by that ā€œcustom:badgeā€ hack do not support some old features I think everyone needs to stop whinging about ā€œunsatisfied whinging usersā€.

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After reading this thread I am so happy I made the choice not to use an RPI or badges years ago.

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I never used badges so far as they were so ugly.

I might be one of the few users who love the new badges! In my case they perfectly fulfill the requirement to give a quick overview of the most relevant entities, and design-wise it fits the rest of my dashboards. Super happy with this release!

Cheers

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