How to get rid of menu bar on 0.96?

[Blueman2]

I noticed that in 0.96 interface, there is not apparent way to get rid of the narrow bar to the left. I run the web interface on several tablet devices in my house, and designed the GUI to fit those tablets. Now they are all messed up because of the bar on the left taking up valuable screen real estate. Any way to get rid of it?

[tom_l]

If you read the comments on the blog post for this release you will see there is a lot of discussion about this. At the moment the solution is to use the custom Compact Custom Header card:

Compact Custom Header

Pre-release 1.2.3 With the addition of the new sidebar to HA comes a few changes to CCH. This is specifically for the current HA beta 0.96.0b0. The changes were made to be backwards compatible so using this release on versions lower than 0.96.0b0 should see no difference. I’d like to mention that CCH will not add features to modify the new sidebar (beyond the 2 mentioned below). The sidebar is accessible outside of Lovelace and is needed to navigate when not in the Lovelace view. CCH should no…

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

@tom_l

At the moment the solution is to use the custom Compact Custom Header card

And that isn’t really a solution depending on your use. The solution is for this bar to not be mandatory on any device but certainly not on tablets.

[tom_l]

David, get yourself over to the frontend dev discord. There’s a discussion on options for the sidebar but they mostly seem to be focusing on kisok mode.

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

Must have missed the action there. I did voice my opinion during the beta but no one seemed to listen or care… I don’t want to kick up too much fuss on the forums and I’d prefer other people say what they think. (otherwise if it’s just me I’ll just STFU) It’s only when the pitchforks come out that anything changes…

[123 (Taras)]

@Blueman2

Any way to get rid of it?

Grab a pitchfork and head over to the discord channel …

But seriously, the answer is no, there’s no native way of doing it. That’s the way they designed it for 0.96. The current workaround is to replace the stock menu with a custom widget that permits its menu to be hidden. I’d say that qualifies as being the ‘nuclear option’.

[tom_l]

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[Blueman2]

Two please.

[ConcordGE (PeteA)]

The eye candy is starting to make the eyes water. Nice to look at when your system crashes though

[123 (Taras)]

Overall, I’d say there’s more positives than negatives in the new menu design. However, removing the simple ability to hide the menu is a very polarizing design decision.

Despite all the other goodness in 0.96, this one odd design choice has the ability to overshadow all else, much like BMW’s Bangle Butt.

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

@123

However, removing the simple ability to hide the menu is a very polarizing design decision.

polarizing AND unnecessary. Makes zero sense.

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

So it will be configurable via the profile in 0.96.3 and will either allow the current behaviour OR you can force mobile mode (pre 0.96 behaviour) You can see the demo here.

Home Assistant Demo

[123 (Taras)]

Perfect! Three menu modes, maximized, minimized, or hidden as shown below:

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

I’d be happy just to ‘force’ mobile mode on my tablet! So to do that I will need to make another user I suppose… but I’m more likely to just disable it altogether.

[Blueman2]

I see 0.96.3 is now out. How do I force it to offer the update in Hassio? Or do I just have to wait? Eager for the new ability to force sade bar off!

Edit: Just showed up as option on my HA. Installing now. Yay!

[tom_l]

You can force it by reloading the supervisor.

[fillwe]

It seems to be tied to device, at least for me. Have the same profile on my tablet and other devices, enabled this on the tablet and it’s not affecting the other devices

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

Agreed!

I was just on my way to post that. It’s even better than I first thought… it’s NOT tied to the Profile but can be set PER BROWSER which means you can hide it on a tablet and show it on a desktop browser! This is awesome.

I also noticed if my tablet is in Portrait mode (where it is hidden anyway or on a mobile) that you don’t even see the setting to disable it.

So they did an awesome job of reverting this change for people that don’t love it. Kudos.

[Blueman2]

Freaking FANTASTIC! 0.96.3 sidebar is perfect! Now, is there any way to easily get rid of the very top line of the display (3 horizontal bars follow by “Home Automation Display”) and still keep the tabs line? I would love to get an extra line on my tablets.

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

have you looked at Custom-Compact-Header?