sorry about the blur, but this is the internet
I initially set HA to use a bitcoin miner as a heater, but once I had the hammer everything looked like a nail. I wanted a dashboard that would be understated but still nice looking, readable at a glance, and useful for the whole family. I was dissatisfied with the popular cards for a variety of reasons, so I made my own.
The calendar is simple, just a list of events for the selected day, clicking an event shows a popup that shows the event and a map.
The weather card represents the weather, using algorithms from the Farmer’s Almanac and other sources to predict the types of cloud in the sky. It will render five types of cloud. Rain is depicted as rain, snow as snow. When winter comes I’ll probably improve the snow rendering.
These card use preact-homeassistant. I was very disappointed to find that most of the calendars and larger weather widgets leak memory and CPU, which is very hard to manage with Lit. Using Preact with hooks makes that much simpler, they run for weeks at a time without needing a reload.
I have a few more cards that aren’t perfect yet, for setting a timer and adding a fullscreen button, and I’m working on some integrations.