I’m pretty new to Home Assistant, coming from FHEM to have look.
The nice looking Dashboard triggered me… and here it begins.
As far as I had to learn from the Board and YouTube etc the only solution to get a fine looking Dashboard is a lot of coding and HACS. Am I right?
I’m talking about simple but very annoying details like:
Sort and fix Cards (why are the cards sorted totally random every time??)
Font size,
Size of the card itself
Group cards into another (e.g. some tile-cards with regular switches in ONE card)
and so on.
Am I wrong and there exists a solution via the UI instead coding (and first of all to learn it)?
I really like the Look of Home Assistant but I think I won’t switch if I have to code absolute everything…
Don’t get me wrong, it’s clear that I have to learn, but to be honest, if I the only way to get a good (basic) Dashboard is coding, I guess I won’t do that…
Thanks to everyone for hints, Tutorials or something else…
Very few core dashboard cards require any coding knowledge. You will see a lot of yaml configuration on the forum and elsewhere because it is the easiest way to share layouts and ideas… Copy/pasting a config is much easier than uploading 4-5 screen shots of the UI editors.
“fine looking” is very subjective… If you want something functional, that is totally doable without having to do any coding or even yaml configuration. Fancier, custom cards and layouts often require at least a little use of yaml configuration. And, yes, some extremely customizable cards do not have much of a UI component are basically only accessible via yaml configuration and CSS.
They are not random, but the default view type (“Masonry”) has a wrap-around pattern that some users dislike or misunderstand. There are other built-in layouts/view types that can be used such as Vertical, Horizontal, Grid, Panel, Sidebar. The view type can be changed by clicking the pencil-shaped Edit button beside the name of the view while in the Edit Dashboard mode.
You can group cards together by starting with a Vertical Stack, Horizontal Stack, or Grid card then adding the cards you want to use together on the stack/grid card.
There are other options like Dwaine’s Dashboard that automate the process of building your dashboard. I’ve never use it, but many user like it.
Thank you very much for your quick and detailed response.
I will take a deeper look to your hints and won’t give up yet
I’m pretty sure I will have more questions but it will take some time, going on a weekend trip tomorrow first so I have to go ahead next week.
