Just wanted to second this for others looking for a solution - this does work. Although I still feel like we’re all just being dumb and missing something. How is this not default and standard?
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Best feature request ever!
At work all the cookies are deleted every. Thus every morning I have to set my default dashboard. It’s really annoying!
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Up vote. Put me on the waiting list!
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I, too, would like to see this happen. For the time being, I just created a new “default” dashboard called “Auto” and took control of the “Overview” dashboard to customize it how I want every user to see it. Downside is, I can’t rename the Overview dashboard to something nicer.
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Just spent the last few days constructing a new dashboard to take over from the old one. I can’t believe there is no way of making a specific dashboard the default globally!!! How frustrating. I’ve no idea how to get around this now 
Please add this functionality!!!
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I can’t believe that after 3 years of this conversation, it is still not possible to predetermine a panel for a user, or even easier, a specific panel for all users… Please, I think it’s something basic so that “non-technical” people, that they don’t have to be rummaging through a menu, on a totally black page when you enter Home Assistant and see everything empty (because I’m not interested in them seeing the summary)… and even less, having to be looking in options such as putting your main panel as default…
If this is too difficult, it may be easier to allow the configuration to be saved by user and not by device, so that the administrator can enter with that user and leave the panel configured and ready for when the “user” really enters…
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I think part of the reason that this hasn’t been done is that no one has stepped up to create it and submit it for inclusion in Home Assistant. Also, I suspect that many people realize that there already is a default dashboard for everyone, but few people are willing to take control of it and customize it for each Home user themselves.
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You may be right about that. However, the vast majority of HA users are probably YAML-challenged as it is (me included) so creating it is out of question 
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Please implement this.
pls integrate this - makes total sense
You don’t need to use YAML. It can all be done in the default UI editor.
Hi,
Just reread your original comment. You said “no one has stepped up to create it and submit it for inclusion in Home Assistant.” My response was that most people can hardly use YAML so you can’t expect them to code and submit actual HA code. Surely Home Assistant itself is not developed using it’s own UI?
You also mention that there already is a default dashboard for everyone. Care to elaborate? I think the whole point of this topic is that people are willing to setup dashboards manually but then cannot use them as default for all users.
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