I have an “out of the box” installation of HA with no customisation of the Overview. In the past I have simply gone into Configuration ->Devices, chosen to enable or disable entities associated with devices and then clicked “Add to Lovelace” those that I want to display on my dashboard. (I use “Areas” to assign entities to the cards that I need to have generated by the system.)
This process has never failed me until last night. When I tried to do the same process with various phone entities that were annoying badges on my dashboard, I got this message: “You don’t seem to be in control of any dashboard, please take control first.” The only option available is to click “OK” on the message popup. After clicking, nothing seems to happen but after a restart of HA, the changes I was trying to make have happened!
I have changed absolutely nothing that I can think of that would have caused this, and for the life of me, I can’t see how I can “take control first”
Same problems for me after after adding some more xiaomi vibration sensors. I also cant add them to any zones?!
Running the latest HA on Hassio “outofthebox”
Same problem here. I’m running a docker container. Everything seems to work fine except for that “please take control” message when I try adding to Lovelace.
Don’t know if this is still a problem for anyone but this is not a bug. It’s a feature. HA populates (aka manages) the overview / lovelace page for you. So when you add a device it gets added automatically.
If you want to create your own UI you need to tell HA you want to control this part. To do this goto the overview menu (three dots on the top right corner of the overview page) and select Configure UI. Now you can take over control and start with what’s there or just from scratch.
I was getting the same error, and although the above helped me locate where to change, I could not edit the dashboard. When i clicked the 3 dots the take control message was not displayed. I was using the Brave Browser… i changed to Edge/Chrome and it worked correctly.
