There was a bug that you needed an overall power sensor because it did not take into account people that only had individual power sensors. Maybe something similar is happening when you only add solar power and no grid power?
The new energy dashboard is great. Is there a way to include all energy entities at once, or is only by adding one-by-one?
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Are the new cards introduced in the updated Energy Dashboard documented anywhere?
On mobile I am using a theme which hides the navigation bar. As such, the default energy dashboard became quite useless, as I can only access the summary page.
Such as ‘’’’energy-usage-card’’’ or the ‘’’energy-solar-card’’’. How can one re-create e.g. the new power sankey card?
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You can also use the Energy dashboard strategies for your own views. Below is the recreation of the Energy dashboard to tailor the navigation with icons. The caveat here is that it is not dynamic in the views that are generated, but that is not really a problem as you know whether you have water, gas etc. or not.
Note: 2025.12.2 required for data to show without having to go to standard Energy dashboard first
Custom Energy Dashboard with strategies
views:
- title: Overview
path: overview
icon: mdi:star-box-multiple-outline
strategy:
type: energy-overview
collection_key: energy_dashboard
- title: Electricity
path: electricity
icon: mdi:home-lightning-bolt-outline
strategy:
type: energy
collection_key: energy_dashboard
- title: Water
path: water
icon: mdi:water
strategy:
type: water
collection_key: energy_dashboard
- title: Gas
path: gas
icon: mdi:gas-burner
strategy:
type: gas
collection_key: energy_dashboard
- title: Now
path: now
icon: mdi:power-plug-outline
stratgey:
type: power
collection_key: energy_dashboard_now
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@tom_l Did you figure out how to hide elements from the sidebar on the dashboards page by chance? I was having the same issue with 12.1 and I couldn’t figure out how to get to the sidebar elements selector, which was slowly driving me insane.
Has something changed from .0 to .1 in terms of the default visiblity of the automated dashboards? Because for me they did not show up anywhere, I just checked and they are hidden without me doing anything (at least not in this release). I think I updated straight from 2025.11 to 2025.12.1.
Thanks! Great help! I was able to figure it out by navigating to my user profile page, but the long-press option is much easier for most users, I think.
I have to say, while is a cool shortcut once one knows and remembers it, it is one of the most un-intuitive and unique ux in HA.
While there may be others, I can’t think of anywhere else in HA, where this long click is done.
There is also no kind of hint of this behavior, the cursor does not change, and there is no mouse over text hint.
IMO, a more obvious method to adjust the side bar components, would be a link/button in the dashboard settings, and/or in the edit dashboard > dialogs, to bring up the same edit sidebar settings.
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Ok yes, the hint and link is in user profile settings, which IMO is also un-intutive (and easy to look past), as the settings > dashboard/edit dashboard is where I suspect most folks would go first.
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So, I have two sensors for power delivered and power returned to the net… but both are positive values - how do I go about making this work with the new realtime power dashboard? Create a custom sensor that negates one of them?
It is also in your profile settings.
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Pieter, an interesting analysis. A point of interest would be a list of integrations that have no official code maintainers. Case in point, the Mold Indicator integration mentioned by Tom. One has to ask, why is it in the core Home Assistant repository?
“If you set your phone to one dashboard and your wall tablet to another, they’ll now both revert to the default dashboard. If you want your wall tablet to use a different dashboard than your other devices, we recommend giving it a separate user profile that you can customize however you want.”
This is the dumbest change I’ve seen in a long time. I have several different devices I acces HA from and they all have purpose built dashboards, based on use-case and screen size/orientation. This “feature” now completely and utterly breaks the UI/UX for ALL OF THEM. And no, I’m NOT going to go make 5 different profiles with separate logins for each device. Unbelieveable. Exactly who asked for this?
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IIRC a lot people that were irritated that setting a default dashboard has to be done for every user separately.
And depending on how you access your dashboard you might have different options as well.
E.g. setting the start URL to a specific dashbaord in case you’re using a browser or fully kiosk. The default dashboard isn’t really an important setting in this case.
BrowserMod is another one that might solve the needs of “power-users” who need more than the standard behavior.
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It would have been real nice if they had left the dashboard selection as it was with the option to choose a global preference. That way it doesn’t ruin setups that folks like myself have created.
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I’m pretty sure nothing changes unless you define a default. You could just leave everything alone and it shouldn’t effect you.
The one caveat here is if you set a global default, setting back to the ‘default’ does not clear the setting, but writes the ‘default’, which means once you set a global default there is no way to get back the Browser legacy localStorage method. Due to this Browser Mod now considers its Default dashboard Frontend setting as legacy and recommends a Default action using browser_mod.navigate which gives you much greater control as well.