Lovelace - buttons at first view path to other views

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Is there a way to use buttons as links to other views.

From here:
https://www.home-assistant.io/lovelace/views/

You can link to one view from another view by its path. For this use cards that support navigation (navigation_path). Do not use special characters in paths.

So there is an example on how to do this with pictures. However I tried that but my picure wasn’t clickable (nothing happened).

Any advice? Do I have to restart ha for this?

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The docs are not up to date.
The example should be:

- type: picture
  image: /local/living_room.png
  tap_action:
    action: navigate
    navigation_path: /lovelace/living_room
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Is there a way to do this without pictures. A simple button (with text) would be nice.

4

@VDRainer do you know how to make the picture cards smaller?

5

No, not using them.
Maybe use the Horizontal Stack Card or try it with the Entity Button Card.
Every card that provides ‘tap_action’ should work.

6

Thanks, found a solution.

I set up some dummy input_boolean’s and use a glance card.

example:

configuration.yaml

input_boolean:
  light_view:
    initial: off

in lovelace.yaml:

  - type: glance
    show_state: false
    show_name: false
    entities:
      - entity: input_boolean.light_view
        icon: mdi:lightbulb-on-outline
        tap_action:
          action: navigate
          navigation_path: /lovelace/light
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