Hello,
I’d like to create a customised dashboard on my Home Assistant, but when I’m adding the dashboard, I get the following warning message:
This dashboard is currently being maintained by Home Assistant. It is automatically updated when new entities or dashboard components become available. If you take control, this dashboard will no longer be automatically updated. You can always create a new dashboard in configuration to play around with. Are you sure you want to take control of your user interface?
I did a search to find information about the warning, and found three discussion threads, but the discussions were at the IT engineer level, so I try to find more simple answers here. The first thing I’d like to understand better about the warning is the following:
If you take control, this dashboard will no longer be automatically updated.
What would I actually lose? Can I still get new entities and components (according to the glossary components are now called integrations) easily to my new, edited dashboard, just not automatically, or can I get them, but the process of adding them is difficult (for example involving editing some obscure files)? Would there be some other downsides? Is there even a reason why one would create a new dashboard without the intention of editing it?
You can always create a new dashboard in configuration to play around with.
That part I don’t understand at all. I thought that that’s what I’m just trying to do: create a new dashboard in configuration. What does that sentence refer to if not to that?
Are you sure you want to take control of your user interface?
The warning message makes me feel more like I’m about to lose control of my user interface .
To end with, Home Assistant seems like a great piece of software. Big thanks to the developers and other contributors! After the initial frustration and struggle (PC installation, container, Ledvance WiFi lights, Tuya Integration, obscure scripts – pretty much a nightmare for a non-techie) it seems like Home Assistant is what I’m going to control my lights with in the future. If I had one wish, it would be that installing Home Assistant to PC would be made easier, for example without needing to use a container. It would be nice to be able to install it like any normal piece of software.