I don’t mean the theme of course, I mean how the elements are organized. In my dashboard it just looks like long list of elements with switches. In the demo, almost all elements get their own card.
Also when I click the editing button (pen), I just get a pop up with 2 settings. I can’t move, add or modify the existing cards. In the demo everything can be customized.
Do I need to install some additional stuff ?
Designing a dashboard is a bit of an art. You can add cards, and when you count custom cards in HACS (you can add HACS) there are more than a hundred cards that you can install. You are mostly limited by your imagination. (And storage on your host computer).
Also, note that “Home Automation” means different things to almost everyone. I doubt that you could find two identical dashboards among all of us.
Here is a DIY get started:
Click on the pencil
Then click on the three dots
then click on “Manage Dashboards”
Then click on “Add Dashboard”
Then click on “New dashboard from scratch”
Then give your new dashboard a name
Then click on “Create”
Now, you have a blank dashboard in your sidebar.
Go wild. Add cards and see what they do. You can’t hurt anything outside of this sandbox. (You can but you really have to try).
Start simple with the built-in cards. Get used to how the cards are managed before getting into cards from HACS.
But, before you do, make a backup so that you have a place to go back to. (Just in case).
The first thing I would install is the Samba Share add-on. When Samba Share is installed, you can see all of your Home Assistant config folder on your Windows File Manager. Then a quick backup of the config folder is quick and easy.
And, yes, you can move cards. When you click on the pencil to edit the dashboard, you can adjust the card relative position.
“Position” is somewhat frustrating because the dashboard is, after all, a web page. Web pages are “fluid” and element position depend on your screen resolution and size.
Thanks for the explanation.
As for moving cards - I can only modify the layout of a dashboard if I create an empty one. In the official demo even the Ovierview tab can be customized when the Pen icon is clicked. For me this doesn’t work.
I don’t use the overview dashboard. Create a new dshboard to play with.
Eventually you will have multiple dashboards for different uses. (I have 12 in all).
