Custom Header

[mayker (maykar (pronounced "maker" with a southern accent))]

The features I mention that are obsolete you can see above, hiding tabs/dashboards based on user, another one would be the built in method of hiding the sidebar. There are currently no other ways to hide the header or have a kiosk mode, though I’m sure someone will make something to replace those features.

I cannot speak to what might be coming in HA’s future, I can suggest things and make PRs, but they may or may not make it into HA.

As others have mentioned, CH seems to be working for them in 0.116. If that works for you too then continue to use it until such time that it breaks (or remain on 0.115x or 0.116) and wait until someone makes a replacement for the feature you’re looking for, or just don’t update HA at all until that happens.

[atomicpapa (Glenn Morrison)]

@mayker Thank you for all of your work. It is truly appreciated. Now I’m gonna go curl up in a ball and cry.

[andriej]

I was never a big fan of custom header… because in my opionion most of it’s feature should be in HA many versions ago
I wait for them to show up natively too…

Good luck on other projects!

[pergola.fabio]

indeed, this is the only thing i use :

custom_header:                             
  hide_header: true

if someone can post an alternative

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

That’s all I need too…

[nicohirsch]

That is very sad But anyways: Thank you very much for the effort mayker! I used it since the beginning of “Custom Compact Header” and I can’t imagine how much work it must have been, maintaining that beast!
I hope there will be a native solution soon - I really don’t like the original header:

WTH: Why header so unnecessarily big?

The original HA header is very big and unnecessarily needs a lot of space. I’m using the custom_component “Custom Header”, but that needs additional load time - especially on mobile (first original header appears, then it disappears and leaves full height empty space - and only after that the compact header appears and the height gets reduced - so a lot of flickering and jumping on the screen). I think at least the basic “compact mode” function of Custom Header should be build in with Home Assi…

[pergola.fabio]

too bad that WTH wasnt implemented

[deluxestyle]

sad to hear that. @mayker thank you for all your effort
All I need is only the

custom_header:
compact_mode: true

[Pirol62 (Jörg Nauen)]

For me it seems, that this is a dealbreaker for 116. I have numerous displays as weather station, alarm clock and simple information panels. It is essential, that the header can be hided at least due to available space. Bad luck. So I have to wait for a release with a similar option. By the way: Hiding tabs for defined useres works indeed. When editing the tab, there is a possibility to allow a tab for users

The german translation is a little bit strange. It means the distance I can see

[Jokerigno]

I do also need footer: true for my mobile dashboard.

Any hint?

[Steve_Jaspers]

Just wanted to chime in and say thanks for all your hard work @mayker
I encourage anyone who’d like to see these functions integrated into vanilla HA to reply to the WTH post referenced above.

[scstraus]

Crap, I guess I’m staying on .115 until the features make it to core. I use almost every feature in CH and it would be very hard to manage my kiosk tablets without it.

Thanks for solving so many of the main issues in hass, I’m sure this was a big job to maintain.

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

@Jokerigno

Any hint?

If it’s not working in 0.116 then rollback… it is working ok in 0.116 fr me but I only use it to hide the header. There is no other solution right now.

[ualex73]

Yes, i can also confirm, simple sizing/hidden of the header still work on 0.116. If it stops working in a next version, the header is truly horrible big

[martheijnen (Mart)]

oof, I hardly rely on this function (mostly the kiosk). Thanks for all your work and I hope solution for getting kiosk back so that the big header is gone again

[pepe59]

I also never understood why the header is so big, it can’t be edited and spoils the overall look of the screen

[Pirol62 (Jörg Nauen)]

Hi all. For the experienced devs. I already found this one here: https://gist.github.com/ciotlosm/1f09b330aa5bd5ea87b59f33609cc931
Could that be a solution as replacement

[greengolfer]

@mayker

There are currently no other ways to hide the header or have a kiosk mode

First, thank you for having provided this awesome component. Like many others, the one feature I will miss most is the “hide header” one.
As you know how to do it (and I don’t and I’m not the only one here), could you provide a component doing only this?
I appreciate that with new HA features, eg hiding tabs can be done another way. But, “hide header”, you are the only one
Thanks.

[pepe59]

I would also like to add. It would really be enough to be able to remove that ugly, big header

[scstraus]

Solves some of the issue, but I still need to hide some tabs for some users and others for others, also based on user agent, remove the chevrons and other declutter of menu items, change the color, etc