Help with Customising View Assist Dashboards

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Hi folks,
I’d like some help / advice on how to go about customising my view assist dashboards. So far I have 3 Echo Show 8 devices running LineageOS and VACA They have weather and camera (frigate) enabled with an icon for each. What I want to try next:
I would like to add a button / icon that displays a short list of radio stations to stream to the individual device (not a group). When streaming starts I would like the VACA display to return to the default (clock STM). I have Music Assistant installed and I can stream the stations to the VACAs from withing the MS gui.
Non-human users have been created to logon the the individual VACAs (Office1, Office and Living Room).
I have been running HA for a while but this is my first real attempt at anything other than switching in a light so I i might ask some basic questions.

I have a paid Nabu account but I’m trying this out on another HA box I have setup to experiment with.

Many thanks and thanks also for reading,

RL

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I’m in the process of setting up the Facebook portal; take a look at my GitHub. It’s still a work in progress, but I have a radio screen with 6 buttons to play BBC radio stations via Music Assistant. See GitHub - lone-baggie/View-Assist: Custom Dashboards and blueprints for View Assist · GitHub. I have some HTML pages that do the same thing; see GitHub - lone-baggie/HTML-views-for-Home-assistant: Display home assistant data via HTML web pages · GitHub .

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Thanks for the reply. Re-using old portals is a great idea. I’ll need to try and acquire one or two!
I can’t see any examples of your radio buttons. Can you share the code and maybe provide a little hand-holding?

Thanks again,

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Have a look at GitHub - lone-baggie/View-Assist: Custom Dashboards and blueprints for View Assist · GitHub. If you create a new dashboard in Home Assistant. Then edit it. Click on the three dots in the right-hand corner and select raw configuration editor’. Delete whatever is in there and copy the contents of View-Assist/Dashboards/dashboard.yml at ff3f39d7a4a070d6c49b93f8f735a32745ab61d2 · lone-baggie/View-Assist · GitHub . This is a complete View Assist dashboard. The radio view is here View-Assist/Dashboards/radio.yml at ff3f39d7a4a070d6c49b93f8f735a32745ab61d2 · lone-baggie/View-Assist · GitHub. The icons are here HTML-views-for-Home-assistant/HTML at main · lone-baggie/HTML-views-for-Home-assistant · GitHub There is also a HTML radio page . Instructions are here GitHub - lone-baggie/HTML-views-for-Home-assistant: Display home assistant data via HTML web pages · GitHub. Here are some screen shoots

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Thanks again, I really appreciate the help. I’ll try if I get a chance over the weekend and report back here

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  1. For radio, I use scripts that I simply add to the dashboard
  2. For dashboards, this video can be useful for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC-VBly1Y00