DD - Automatic area-based dashboard for desktop, tablet and mobile - V3.7.0

You missed step 7, to make dwaine theme default.

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Just to add to my issue. I did make it default, the theme does change…like the colors of the page changed to the color scheme of Dwayne’s.

I just get this…(I’ve tried on different browsers, I just happen to be sending this from my phone)

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No, I’ve already done that.
The logs are also not showing anything related to HACS or themes.
I’ll keep digging, there has to be a rational answer to this.

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/hacsfiles/ is not a real folder it never exists. It’s a software path that HACS made. It reads that path in the code and serves the original file on it from the www/community folder. So you must replace it in your custom_resources.yaml if you got any.

Did you followed the installation guide correctly? Placed all files in the root folder? Also please join the discord server for support questions like this.

Hey thanks for replying. I actually just got it to work, not sure what happened…luckily I took a snapshot of the VM before I started. I just reverted back and started from scratch. It’s working now, maybe I missed something the first time I’m not sure. Sorry about that.

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No problem! :smiley: glad you got it working. You like it?

I think you should take a look at this:

It explains the new hacsfiles path in HACS. If you use any custom resources you should update the url in your custom_resources.yaml.

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I got the new version working! Thanks a lot for the excellent work! It looks beautiful and very responsive!

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Hi Dwain, now that Dark Sky is bought by Apple and their service will be shut down in the summer, are you considering an alternative for the weather integration you use in your theme?

Thanks for your reply!

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You can use any weather entity you want :slight_smile: I personally preferred the dark sky component but since its gonna be unavailable I’m going to replace it with an other one.

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Ah it looks awesome. I’m just trying to figure out how to add custom cards to the rooms. I thought I could use page_entities but it seems to always put the entity into a button. I’m going to just add a page with addons…I’ll post some pics sooon…thanks so much buddy!

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You can create a room addon and modify the button.yaml you can use a card directly as button so you tweak it to your needs. :slight_smile:

You must have spent endless nights with this so I just bought you 3 cups of coffee to bring us even more umphh to your theme! :wink: Thank you very much!

First off, this is amazing! This is so beautiful compared to what I had before. Even finding little things like listing all the batteries out and other small things.

I had a few questions and issues, but no complaints! and multiple cups of coffee coming your way…

  • When it first loaded, the icons did not load, eventually they did, is that downloading or caching? I was using fas icons over mdi for the first time
  • It’s slow at times, maybe it was just when I first used it, it seems to be working fine now mostly, maybe it needed to cache each page? I would load a page and it would take multiple seconds for the header to render and then the entities, but when I go back it’s fine… more info on an edit, still happens at times, just slow rendering, on a fast laptop and a pixel 4 with HA running on a full Intel NUC, so no load issues
  • The top left back button is very hard to push on my phone, Pixel 4, I can maybe hit it 1 out of 10 times, works fine on desktop
  • How do you change the brightness on a light? I can click the tile in a room and it turns on and off, but I cannot adjust the brightness, maybe I just haven’t figured it out yet
  • When I have 1 lock in a room, I see the tile, the status is correct, but when I click it, it goes to the entity details, then I can click unlock or lock ,but seems when I click it, like with lights, it should just lock and unlock… Also, it makes a buzz or different action when I click a lock to load an entity
  • The media players work, but show up just as entity, anyway to make it be closer to the media player card? So show the song being played, the next, play/pause, image, etc…?
  • When you click Home and see activity, is that only for when you are on that page? It doesn’t seem to pull from history or log, just while the page is loaded?
  • I added my Thermostat to a room, seems like quick access in the header would be good, maybe I could just add it to favorite for now, but seems like access somehow up there quickly would be good
  • If a room only has 1 or 2 lights, seems like an option to just list them on the room page would be good, so I don’t have to click a room, then click Lights, then turn a light on/off, would save a click and a page, so an option for light and rooms to so group or display all on page or something
  • You have a section for scenes, what about scripts? Anyway I could add scripts to that page as well? Maybe I can, I haven’t tried yet

Last thing is about naming, wonder what others do here. I have longer names like Kitchen Overhead Light, etc… With this concept of rooms and better grouping, I should just name that “Light”. I guess if I do all my rooms right in Google I can make it all work and keep the entity descriptive, would make the UI look better without all the word wrapping…

This was awesome work!!

UPDATES:

  • The back button works a lot better on my wifes Pixel 3, so not sure there, maybe just make the click area larger?
  • Still having the slow loading issues, example is on Theme Settings, the “Theme Selector” sometimes loads right away, sometimes it’s like 5 seconds, the other is you load a room and the header is empty but the entity / groups are there, or vice versa, no pattern yet
  • With cameras, you might want to make those 2-3 second jpeg snapshots, I have 8 cameras, so only the first 6 show up because they are real feeds, this is a limit of chrome and most browsers on the number of feeds, need an option to make camera a still image update, but you get the live feed when you click it, so you can have more than 6
  • Under House Data, All Batteries, you might want to only look at sensors or something? I have an automation with the word Battery in it and it shows up here and seems it should not
  • What are the rules to show under House Data “All Sensors”? I feel it’s missing some sensors
  • Was also thinking on my comment about showing lights on the page instead of in a light group under rooms, I guess you could just use “more entities” instead of lights if you wanted that and it should just work
  • If you go to the screen with rooms, click devices, then click “Locks” or anything, it will flash the rooms screen first before going into “Locks”
  • If you go to Devices, and click “Lights”, it should have the same header and back button as the others, for now I think it’s going to the section from the bottom link? Maybe something else to do here, just a weird UX flow it seemed

Again, showed my wife and she was like wow, this looks SO much better

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Anyone else getting a white bar at the top? Using both Chrome and Fully I get this

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Would also think maybe an option to make the Lights view only one column, so text can be longer, so an option for 1 or 2, is that somewhere I missed? I would say the same for scenes, which should be scenes and scripts, but hoping to test that in a minute and see if that just works…

Sorry for so much, I just had a couple hours to set this up and play around with it a lot

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Fix coming in 1.3.1 release

Would be nice indeed, i find myself pressing it multiple times too. Most definitely because the clickable area is too small and easy to miss.

Double tap the light

This actually shows entities like windows or doors when they’re open. If nothing, then it doesn’t show anything there. Good if you want a quick overview on your house of things that are open.

You could attempt it making a more_page.yaml file :smiley:

double click the room :slight_smile:

Maybe its best if you make some time to read through the documentation. It is very well documented and these answers to your questions are written down there. Maybe it’ll answer some of your other questions too.

Good luck and enjoy the theme :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the help! I spent a more time in the setup documentation and maybe need to read the other sections as well, thanks for the help!

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I also didn’t read this whole thread, was long, but just realized I was running on something a day old that was said to be a beta, so awesome work and congrats on making this UI finally look like something polished and professional!!

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