I’ve been using navbar card for some time now, and while it’s great at what it does, it’s getting to be a bit of a paint to maintain across multiple dashboards and pages on multiple home assistant installations. Yes, maybe there are ways to make my life easier, but I don’t have the time to maintain custom code any more.
I’m looking to see if there’s a more “native” way of having such a navigation bar at the bottom of the screen, without needing 3rd party components.
thanks
While stil a custom component, UIX Forge footer mold can be used with Foundries which allows you to have one server based copy of your footer yaml. Foundries can be stored in integration config or in a standalone yaml file and then linked into integration config.
You will still have some management work but only in one place.
added to that, you can also use a grid with buttons and keep that floating at the bottom of the view with a very simple include on each (section) view
footer:
card:
!include /config/dashboard/buttons/buttons_dashboards_footer.yaml
that include is nothing more than
type: vertical-stack
visibility:
- condition: state
entity: input_boolean.menu_in_footer
state: 'on'
cards:
- !include /config/dashboard/buttons/buttons_dashboards.yaml
in my case, because I want to be able to toggle it on or off
the buttons_dashboards.yaml is a set of carefully crafted custom-buttons, but you could very easily add navigation / shortcut cards in there, and have everything stock Frontend
