Energy dashboard: limit number of columns?

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Hi,

I’m very, very pleased with the new energy dashboard features - great job :slight_smile:

However, there is one limitation:

As soon as adding a power grid, the “Electricity” view is split in two columns, showing only the single small “energy distribution” in the right column. Besides not needing “energy distribution” here, this makes the itself great graphs on the left columns very small. Especially on a wall tablet we use.

However, since the built in energy dashboard serves almost all of our current wishes, I would just like to use it instead of building a custom one :wink:

Question:

Is there a way to either

  1. Remove that extra card (“energy distribution”) or
  2. Limit this view to use 1 column only?

have a nice day,
Stefan

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No. It is a fixed layout.

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I didn’t want to make a custom one either. Eventually I bit the bullet and added it to my dashboard with directions at Energy cards - Home Assistant and was pleasantly surprised that it was relatively painless.

Downsides (for now?) include that it’s YAML-only, the date picker doesn’t float, and the grid sizing is hard to customize since it’s YAML-only for now. And while it has collection_key to let different graphs show different properties, this is only for customizing different graphs to different date ranges. I do not see a way to customize the sankey graphs to show only certain devices.

For example, my EV charging dominates every sankey graph when present, rendering it useful only on the days when I’m not actually driving. It would be helpful to be able to use the heavy energy usage label described at Grouping your assets - Home Assistant with a UI toggle to hide all those heavy energy consumers from the graphs.

I’m sure it will get better over time (e.g. 2025.11 released just added pie charts!), but for the very basic customization you’re requesting, it’s relatively straightforward.

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That’s unfortunate :cry:

Could there be any hacky workarounds :wink: ?

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Maybe with this: 💡 UI eXtension - Add CSS styles to (almost) any part of the Home Assistant UI

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Thank you for the hint - that’s probably the right direction :grinning: !

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Thank you for the detailed description! While building a custom dashboard is not at my scope at the moment (building up the house, adding tons of devices), this will be the route to go when polishing up HA :slight_smile:

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I do not understand? You said you just want to customize the layout. You can already do that with the Home Assistant’s built-in cards and built-in dashboards.

What hacky workarounds are necessary when the functionality is already built into Home Assistant?

Or were you saying for my feature requests? Yes, I found forum stuff that makes me confident I could make it work with existing HACS packages. I do not care enough (yet) to make that happen.

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They want to customise the built in energy dashboard.

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