Can't Get Light On/Off

Third party integrations HADashboard
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Hi all, HADashboard is a brilliant idea to let my family members use Home Assistant with complete ease.

I have managed to make HADashboard work together with HASS on my RPi3. My Yeelight (dimmable light) works like a charm using hadimmer widget. However, I have another light connected to HASS via MQTT, with only on/off capability. It also works with hadimmer widget but I don’t want the +/- sign as they are useless obviously. So, I tried haswitch widget and it didn’t work.

So, my question is how to make a simple light with only on/off capability work. What widget and what settings should I use?

My apology if it’s a dumb question. I couldn’t find any answers or examples in the past few days.

Thanks in advance.

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first i want to point out that i think you are using the old HAdashboard.
there is a new and better version (V2) in beta at this moment.

but for now for your question i need to know what entity you are talking about.
if it is a light.something it wont work with switch.
if you want that you may want to create a templateswitch in HA or an input boolean that takes over the value from your light.

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Thanks for your reply. Yes, you are right. I am trying the old release.

The entity I am using is light. Is there a generic widget for a simple on/off light? Or else I will try the Boolean input template as you suggested.

Great thanks again.

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no in the old dashboard there is no widget for light without dimming.
in the new there is.

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Got it. Will try HADashboardv2 beta then.

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which is the light on/off widget?

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light? or if you better like that switch.