Help with lovelace dashboards - links to tutorials

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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Hey, having some trouble getting past the HA/Appdaemon learning curve - Originally I had a system set up on home assistant only using MQTT to talk with an Arduino. I have decided to rebuild and like the idea of utilizing Appdaemon so I can code in python/communicate with easier with my devices.

I’m currently following the tutes from the Appdaemon site:
https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/COMMUNITY_TUTORIALS.html
In addition, I’ve seen some youtube videos of people showing their systems which is great but glosses over how they did the dashboard connection.

Now, this makes sense to a point, I understand how my .py passes through to the apps.yaml. The part I’m at a loss for is, how I can pass this info back and forth between the HA GUI i.e turn on a switch or have a indication lamp.

I’ve looked through the forums and can’t find anything that discusses how the dashboard is linked/built do I need to create the entities in the configuration.yaml file and then pass that backwards? again any links/tutes you have would be great.

Edit** I should clarify I am looking to use the Home Assistant Dashboard not the Appdaemon

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Start here

https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/DASHBOARD_INSTALL.html

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Thanks for that @nickrout, this was one of the original ones i was following, but isn’t this for the Appdaemon board port 5050? or is it a case of if i set it up for that board i should be able to see them on the in build home assistant dashboard?

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You said you wanted HAdashboard.

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haha, my bad good pick up mixed up some terminology there. noob

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So you want to know how to use Lovelace?

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think i’ve got my head around it, now, so i will set up my object in the configuration.yaml, this then allows me to add it to the dashboard.yaml in conjuction with the apps.yaml/.py which will execute the code…

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I still don’t get it. I have a variable in Appdeamon “x”. It’s a float. How do I display this variable in Lovelace?
And if I have a Boolean in home assistant how can I use that variable in Appdeamon.