Hi everyone!
I could not shake the feeling that there had to be a way of creating complex dashboards without manually typing YAML or configuring the same card with different entities over, and over. And I found one! It’s called a “dashboard strategy” and it’s actually very simple as a concept, which is why I made my own and decided to share it!
Here is how Bonbon Strategy looks:
Almost everything is controlled by the native HA settings. Weather, persons, floors, areas, entities inside each area etc. Everything is fully automatic! The dashboard grows with your HA instance without you doing anything, just keep it tidy!
Plese check it out: https://github.com/trashbytes/bonbon-strategy
I recommend you add the repository on HACS and install it that way.
If you’re asking yourself why had to painstakingly create card after card, button after button, even though you already spent hours creating floors and areas, assigning devices, selecting temperature and humidity entities, picking icons and naming stuff which the integrated dashboards picked up no problem, then this is for you!
It’s actually the same concept that HA itself uses for the integrated dashboards. Since YAML is basically JSON, we can write some super simple JavaScript code which aggregates all that information, wraps it in beautiful cards and returns it as a JS-Object, which HA then converts into YAML and uses as a dashboard.
Tell me what you think!