So my dashboard that runs with touch screen as pictured
Has some spare space
Now everything is grouped mostly and can control fine
Now what I do with the spare space
Some ideas or other projects or plugins
That others have used
It’s now running on a mini pc as the raspberry pi was a little limiting of performance of the touch screen
So probably have more options
Thougts
Nothing? It looks great?
Seriously, I’m not trying to be pedantic. I truly appreciate information density but t I often find if I’m asking others what to do with my system I didn’t really need the advice in the first place.
Yeah it’s great to ask for ideas but really let your NEEDs drive what ends up on the dash. I mak a pass on my personal dashboard every few months to see if I can reduce clutter, make things visually appealing and easy to read. But I have never said - Hmmm, what can I stuff in that blank space?
Instead maybe look at the cards and say - is there a more streamlined way to display that that’s still easy to use and understand? That’s led to some of my best dashboard changes. For instance:
(it’s a stupidly complex custom:button-card BTW)
The important part here isn’t what it shows. But what it doesn’t. It only highlights something of interest to the resident if an item is ABNORMAL - like the alarm icon red on the left, the vacant gray icon or otherwise requested persistent things like hvac. I use color when possible (note the border is white and the image is full normal color) that tells me the house is in AWAY mode and because it’s not glowing and amber it’s normal for that condition. The house color state follows the weather and it’s sunny and hot in the south today.
I know there are 22 other chips in that card under conditial cards so they’re currently hidden but pop under various conditions. But they don’t show if things are NORMAL.
Yes I showed mobile view but tablet is t different, just the cards flow out to the right.
Normal state, my dashboard has TONS more balanced whitespace than yours.
Just thought of a posted a topic on it to have music control , (playlist) that from spotify , start app and plays playlist on my nvidia shield from a press of a button, waiting for some response as not sure where to start on that one
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First start building a script that actually does the thing. (play x Playlist to shield TV using Spotify) - hint that’s a service call to Spotify most likely, specifying the target.
From there add a button on dash that fires the script. Then see if your script can accept variables (from an input select possibly or unique buttons for each Playlist?)
Sky is the limit.
But build the function first then adding it should be cake at that point.
Found a integration that does it all
Posted the answer in the other post