Remove legacy 'overview' dashboard

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Hello,

I’ve read through a few topics here and I haven’t found a clear answer.

After the sections dashboard was released I created a new dashboard and set that as default on all my devices. Sometimes though the old ‘Overview’ dashboard becomes the default.

I would like to remove that legacy dashboard as I no longer use it. But when I try to remove I get this message:

The default dashboard, Overview, cannot be edited from the UI.

Is there a way to remove the old dashboard that is no longer in use? Or is there a way to rename the dashboard I am using to ‘Overview’ so that becomes the default?

Thanks for reading.

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Not sure if this is the way to approach the problem, but I copied the code from the dashboard I am using and pasted it into the default dashboard through the raw configuration editor and removed as default on this device on my devices. Also switched off ‘show in sidebar’.

Seems to work. Perhaps this may be of use to others here.

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The correct way is to set your new dashboard as default, and then you can delete the old ‘default’ dashboard.

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Unfortunately that doesn’t work as you get the following message even when the ‘Overview’ dashboard is no longer the default dashboard:

The default dashboard, Overview, cannot be edited from the UI. You can hide it by setting another dashboard as default.

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Once you take control of your UI via YAML, the Home Assistant interface for modifying it won’t be available anymore, and new entities will not automatically be added to your UI.

When you make changes to ui-lovelace.yaml, you don’t have to restart Home Assistant or refresh the page. Just hit the refresh button in the menu at the top of the UI.

To revert back to using the UI to edit your dashboard, remove the lovelace section from your configuration.yaml and copy the contents of your ui-lovelace.yaml into the raw configuration section of Home Assistant and restart.

You have to choose YAML or UI for the Default dashboard. This doesn’t mean you can’t wipe the Default UI dashboard and customize it.

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