The default group/tab is really useful, as it shows up all entities as they are found and groups that are defined. So makes it easy to spot new stuff and look at everything - I use it a lot!
However using it that way means that you can’t define a nice looking ‘home’ screen without losing that ‘all’ view, as you’re overriding the default behaviour.
It would be really handy if you could define another view that worked like the default one, i.e. that shows every group/entitiy. That way you could tuck that at the end of the list of tabs and define a nice clean home screen again.
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As discussed below it’s probably better for all the tabs to work the same way, with a flag for all: yes/no. No special default tab.
Also an ungrouped: yes/no flag which results in the tab only showing ungrouped items
Ironically, there was a “hack” I stumbled onto about 3 versions ago (before the html frontend code was changed) that meant you could enter a non-existent tab name in the html address for your page and it would show you a tab with every single object in HASS on it (like a default tab would be before you start customising).
I found it quite useful but then it disappeared as the back end code had obviously been tidied up!
So, +1 for a way to have a “sysadmin” type tab - although for me it would also be good if it were optionally “hidden” ie only able to be opened if you enter the address rather than on the shown tabs.
As an extra feature of this, it’d be useful to have an option to display entities that don’t belong to a group/view too. I’d use it as a way to know what needs to be added to my other tabs.
If you don’t define a group with the name default_view you do indeed get this, but that means your first tab contains all your entities. In most cases, this is not desirable as it’s the first thing you see when you open HASS.
If you do define a group with the name default_view to clean up that first tab, you lose the ability to spot new entities at a glance, because another tab cannot take over this function from the default_view tab.
But my request is to be able to have any tab act like the default one (if the flag is set) and this covers what justyns asked for I think, since all ungrouped stuff will appear at the top of any tab/view where the ‘all’ flag is set?
But yup, I think your feature request covers that. If @justyns means he would like to see a tab with just the entities that aren’t part of another tab or group card yet…I can see the sense in that too. It would keep you from having to find them in amongst all the entities you’re already using (in case you use a default_view style tab to show all your entities in an unorganised fashion).
@fanaticDavid is pretty much spot-on. I realize ungrouped items would show up as badges at the top, but groups would show up as cards whether they have been added to another tab or not.
Basically, I wanted a tab/view that would show only things that aren’t displayed on another view. It’d be easier that way to check if there are any entities I forgot to configure/group with something else.
