3 Dots missing to edit dashboard

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I am new in HA but it’s a real powerful tool and the integration of devices works greatly.
So, I started to define areas and rooms and then added the devices and KNX entities and some automation. Now I wanted to edit the dashboard but in the standard dashboard I can’t take over control, the 3 Dots are missing. I also cannot take control of the areas and rooms I created (and connected to the entities). When I make a new dashboard, I can get the control but if I add the areas or rooms, I cannot get control of those (like in the standard dashboard). I tried

  • Reload STR + F5
  • In my profile Advanced mode is enabled
  • Design I tried Standard and Mushroom
    I am running core-2026.4.3 Home Assistant OS
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The 3 dots has changed to a pencil.

Instead of modifying the default dashboard create a new one in settings dashboards, this why you will not break the default Dashboard.

But by far the biggest tip I can give you is read the docs first, then look at online guides. HA changes so fast that a lot of online stuff is out of date and will lead you in the wrong direction.

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I have the pencil, but I don’t have the three dots in the window that pops up to take over control

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So, I am fine to start a new dashboard (which I can edit) but then I can’t edit my rooms or areas.

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The GUI has changed so much over time that I do not know why it do as it does, but I do know that the Advanced user options in the user settings sometimes can be the cause.

Click your login name at the bottom of the side bar or the burger menu on th mobile device and find the advanced setting and enable it.

5

advanced setting was enabled but did not dothe trick

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Okay, then only advice I can give is to clear browser cache and check again. :slight_smile:

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Create New Dashboard, Add Area-Card (choose Area) , click save, Edit Card - i.e Click Interactions - ( image-Tap-Behavior#Navigate - /home/areas-your_area )

8

I can creat new dashbord and edit it and als add a new area card and save it with the navigation to the area.
But then I can not edit this area. If I click on the pencil in tge area the three dots are missing like in the picture

This is the code from the overview new page

views:
  - type: sections
    sections:
      - type: grid
        cards:
          - alert_classes:
              - motion
              - moisture
            sensor_classes:
              - temperature
              - humidity
            display_type: picture
            type: area
            features_position: bottom
            vertical: false
            tap_action:
              action: navigate
              navigation_path: /home/areas-flur
            area: flur
    header:
      card:
        type: markdown
        content: |
          Hallo {{ user }} 
        text_only: true
    max_columns: 3
    title: Übersicht
    icon: hue:home
  - type: sections
    max_columns: 3
    title: EG
    path: eg
    icon: mdi:home-floor-g
    sections:
      - type: grid
        cards: []
    header:
      card:
        type: markdown
        text_only: true
        content: ' EG'
    show_icon_and_title: false
    cards: []

And this is the code from the flur area

alert_classes:
  - mo0tion
  - moisture
sensor_classes:
  - temperature
  - humidity
display_type: picture
type: area
features_position: bottom
vertical: false
tap_action:
  action: navigate
  navigation_path: /home/areas-flur
area: flur

On the area sinece I can not edit it Im not sure how to see the code

9

Do you have a custom theme or is the default one.

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I tried with the default and mushroom no change

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Right Not the Prebuild Dashboards, And Not the Prebuild Areas-Dashboards … to avoid New Users FU , The Basic Prebuild Homeassistant “Experience” … i asumme
But i assume you by now have seen/followed the URL’s in the url-window , so you have an idea of the underlying “structure” .
Initially Areas, and Labels were made as a “help” to easy group/divide in devices/network/home, in a structure/hierarchy
Then someone got the idea to “Populate” these “Group-Areas” into a Dashboard ( The Area, it’s in it’s functionality a CORE.Registry ) … Obviously in their(someones) awful random taste :smile:
( Thou basically it’s just “dumped” entities into a auto-generated Dashboards )

You can create a “Room / Area” Dashboards and style it as you want, and link to it
You can’t do much about Any of all of those pre-build “stuff” they Pollute our " Personal Homeassistant Installs " with

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Thanks, that was my mistake that I thought the areas are connencted to the dashboard. Thanks