Really nice thread. Let me also share a few pictures of my current dashboard and also give you some links if you want to build something like i have.
Before sharing the looks of it, let me explain the logic on which it is build. There is a main view which contains:
- Notifications (Alarm state, presense, location, window openings etc)
- Quick control of key devices (lights, heating etc)
- Battery information for battery powered devices
- An Android TV remote control (if we cannot find the actual remote)
- Key Automations that i may want to enable/disable
So here is how it looks:
Most of the time, i do everything in this view but i have created a view for each room with more details and actions.
Also, i attempted to make the main view as much modular as possible. For example, if i don’t need to see location information or the remote, i can switch it off and then it’s replaced with other information. I do this with conditional cards and helpers. Here is an example if i switch on the “Dashboard Automations” helper on the upper right side:
We can see a few things in the above screenshot but the most obvious is that the remote has been now replaced with some options and automations. Also, we see on the left bottom side that now appears a notification in white about the presense in the living room. This appears because i have enabled the notifications. These notifications are conditional so if i leave the room it will dissapear. Another change we see is that i have expanded the “Living Room” button (middle column) and we can now see cards. This is the quick control of the key home devices and it’s what allows me not to navigate to other views.
So let me also say what i used on the dashboard. At first, i built it based on the latest update of HA that includes the sections but i also used a few cards and mods from HACS:
- Card-mod gives us the gradients of a few specific cards and also is used by my theme.
- Expander Card is used to put cards in a card that can be expanded or contracted as in the middle column.
- Mini Graph Card is giving me nice graphs (see next screenshot)
- Swipe card allows me to have multiple cards and swipe between them (see below screenshot)
- Vertical Stack Navigation Card is basically my navigation on the left column
- Fold Entity Row visible on the apper right column on the screenshots, the “Dashboard Automation” has a small arrow and more options can be expanded using this card
In the next screenshot you can see the Fold Entity Row on the upper right and the Mini Graph Card in the middle displaying the temperature of my aquarium:
The next screenshot displays the Swipe card that i use to provide battery information. This is both the Swipe card and the mini graph card:
For reference, i also provide a screenshot of one of my other views:
Hope you like it. In case you choose to build something like this and you need help let me know!