Hi all
I’m new to Home Assistant, but I have a fully installed Home Assistant system and have already “played around” with a few things.
Before I started, I wanted to get to grips with the design of the dashboards and watched what felt like 100 YouTube videos. As far as I can tell, I haven’t found any on how to install or activate the Lovelace UI.
Can anyone link me to an installation guide or a video? And maybe a few words of clarification.
That would be great.
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There is nothing to install, you are looking at it. Lovelace-UI was the old name for dashboards.
Thank you for that. Understood.
But…
I watched e.g. videos from ResinChem Tech on Youtube.
I like e.g. the Virtual Switches:
The code he is posting:
# ==============================================
# LIGHT DIMMING VIRTUAL SWITCH EXAMPLE
# Brightness attribute level may need to be
# adjusted for your particular situation/light
# ==============================================
switch:
- platform: template
switches:
lights_100:
value_template: “{{ is_state_attr('light.basement', 'brightness', 255) }}”
turn_on:
service: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: light.basement
data:
brightness: 255
# I did not use the turn_off to prevent lights from turning off and back on when switching brightness levels
turn_off:
service: light.turn_off
target:
entity_id: light.basement
lights_75:
value_template: “{{ is_state_attr('light.basement', 'brightness', 191) }}”
turn_on:
service: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: light.basement
data:
brightness: 191
lights_50:
value_template: “{{ is_state_attr('light.basement', 'brightness', 128) }}”
turn_on:
service: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: light.basement
data:
brightness: 128
lights_25:
value_template: “{{ is_state_attr('light.basement', 'brightness', 64) }}”
turn_on:
service: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: light.basement
data:
brightness: 64
Where to put this code and how to bring it to a dashboard.
Sorry. Might sound like a stupid question. But I am stuck…
That is a template switch it has nothing to do with Lovelace/dashboards except that it creates a switch you can then put in your dashboard.
It goes in your configuration.yaml file.
Thanks Tom.
Ok understood.
But how can I get this switch as a sample on my dashboard?
- Create the template switch
- Restart Home Assistant
- Switch should be available in auto-generated dashboard, or if you have taken control of your dashboard add the switch to an entities card.
What needs to go in the Value Temple field?
