Why am I not surprised you saw a better way?! 
Thanks, as always.
I should add that it wasn’t my method, I filched it from someone else and had wanted to add an edit to my original post to that effect after it got a few likes, but because I can’t remember who I got it from to credit, never did.
just for educational purposes:
any reason not to use {{ states.automation | list | count }} ?
also, since ive just posted this as a solution to list and count domains, would you shorten that too with this |list|count: {{ states| groupby('domain') | list | count }} (since we need the for loop there anyway)
value_template: >
{%- for d in states | groupby('domain') %}
{% if loop.first %}{{loop.length}} Domains:
{% endif -%} {{d[0]}},
{%- endfor %}
It was mine I’m ashamed to say I always find a way to make my templates as long winded as possible.
@petro you need to share your repo with me so I can learn anchors wait till you see my energy consumption template abortion, but hey it works its just really really really long.
I’ve been working the past 2 weeks to get my system into a cohesive setup. You don’t want to see my set up at the moment because it is very complicated where it doesn’t need to be, I haven’t updated sections since my initial startup (in 2016). I’m trying to streamline every page of my UI while removing stuff that doesn’t work / I don’t need anymore / is getting depreciated. I’m actually pretty close and I hope to have it posted within a week. I just have a bunch of appdaemon automations that I need to update, but I’ll do that after I post it.
EDIT: Here’s the repo, its a work in progress.
Just in case it helps, my post linked below has a simplified anchors example.
Thanks man appreciate it, always learning this community is awesome for that.
Does anyone know what would be the best way to obtain system stats such as CPU, temperature, disk usage, etc from a remote Ubuntu 18.x Linux server please?
Mine’s very simple by comparison to most of the dashboards shown here, but this is mine:
The only custom UI element in use here is the Compact Custom Header.
And in case anyone’s interested in how this is layed out and configured:
- badges: []
cards:
- type: 'custom:compact-custom-header'
voice: hide
- cards:
- entities: []
show_header_toggle: false
title: "\U0001F5A5 Debian System Status"
type: entities
- cards:
- entity: sensor.processor_use
name: CPU Usage
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
title: Processor
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: '%'
- entity: sensor.memory_use_percent
name: Memory Usage
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
title: Memory
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: '%'
type: horizontal-stack
- cards:
- Name: Disk Usage
entity: sensor.disk_use_percent
name: Disk Usage
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
title: Disk
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: '%'
- entity: sensor.cpu_temp
max: 105
name: CPU Temp
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 70
title: CPU Temp
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: °C
type: horizontal-stack
type: vertical-stack
- cards:
- entities: []
show_header_toggle: false
title: "\U0001F5A5 Synology Status"
type: entities
- cards:
- entity: sensor.cpu_load_total
name: CPU Usage
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
title: Processor
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: '%'
- entity: sensor.memory_usage_real
name: Memory Usage
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
title: Memory
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: '%'
type: horizontal-stack
- cards:
- entity: sensor.volume_used_volume_1
name: Volume Usage
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
title: Disk
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: '%'
- entity: sensor.temperature_sda
max: 105
name: Disk Temp
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: °C
type: horizontal-stack
type: vertical-stack
- cards:
- entities: []
show_header_toggle: false
title: "\U0001F5A5 USG Status"
type: entities
- cards:
- entity: sensor.unifi_gateway_wan_cpu
name: CPU Usage
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
title: Processor
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: '%'
- entity: sensor.unifi_gateway_wan_mem
name: Memory Usage
severity:
green: 0
red: 90
yellow: 65
title: Memory
type: gauge
unit_of_measurement: '%'
type: horizontal-stack
- cards:
- entity: sensor.unifi_gateway_firmware_upgradable
name: Updates
type: sensor
- entity: sensor.unifi_gateway_alerts
name: Alerts
type: sensor
unit_of_measurement: °C
type: horizontal-stack
type: vertical-stack
- entities:
- entity: sensor.plex
- entity: sensor.nginx_service_status
- entity: sensor.plex_service_status
show_name: true
show_state: true
type: glance
- entities:
- entity: sensor.ssl_certificate_expiry
type: entities
- entities:
- entity: sensor.status_smart_sda
- entity: sensor.status_smart_sdb
- entity: sensor.status_smart_sdc
- entity: sensor.status_smart_sdd
show_header_toggle: false
title: Disk Health
type: entities
icon: 'mdi:server-network'
id: Settings
title: Network and MonitoringSimple is good. You can see what you need to at a glance.
How did you get the usg cpu , memory data and update data? Can you share? Thanks
Always happy to share! 
I used the custom Unifi Gateway component and added the templates for the USG hardware stats as per gohassgo’s helpful post here.
I got my usage stats from system monitor, not glances. Didn’t even know about glances. Learn something new every day.
although I just noticed that my uptime is wrong, that’s hassio uptime, not system uptime. Gotta fix that.
looks great, would you mind share the code?
Looks great except your temperature is in the wrong format 
It’s really annoying that you can’t have ºF and ºC. I like my outside temp in ºF and device temps in ºC. Oh well. I’m ok with this though.
Why not using a sensor template to convert from F to C or vice versa? That should be quite easy, I guess
HA automatically takes any temperature and converts it to your system temperature units. I have my system units set as ºF. I suppose I could remove the conversion in a template, keep it with ºF in the graphs and just change the display on the card. But that’s not worth the effort IMO.