Trying to set the Hassio theme to Backend selected, which is the top theme in the listing, I cant scroll up there, always ends on Default. With great effort, sometimes the Backend shows suddenly, but then one must be really quick …
Is this an UI error?
Secondly, can one set it in the config files, opposed to having to select the theme in the UI?
Do you mean that’s what would be expected, or did you in fact experience this? I seem to recall that by using these automation the selection is set to backend…But as said, I havent checked in a long time, so not really sure.
On my mobile I cannot set my theme to backend-selected.
This means that calling the service will not change the theme when the automation runs.
Which actually raises a question. In the HA menu you set the theme on a per-user basis but this does not seem to get applied to all devices logged on as the same user.
Unless of course this is a cacheing issue, but then how do you force a full reload on a mobile device using Chrome when the webpage (in this case HA) has been saved as an ‘app’?
Im not sure if that’s true, at least, Ive never experienced that. For what I see, the theme is applied to the instance, not to the device it is displayed on. Even more, I have 3 users configured, and on all of these, the theme is automation theme does its job… Maybe it shouldn’t be on the user page after all, it was on the general strings page before.
Unless this is all based on the fact I havent ever set a user based theme, and the system simply hasn’t recorded any personal settings related to theme, and is still listening to the automation, as it has always done…
maybe ask one of the dev’s or architects on this subject, and while you have their attention, throw in the issue of the backend select not being visible at all times.
how do you even do that? I tried it just now, but only see the option of creating a bookmark, not save on desktop or something like that…
Top right three dot menu in Chrome, ‘Add to Home Screen’.
(This is on an Android phone)
Gives a shortcut on the Home screen that acts a bit like an app. i.e. it is really Chrome displaying the webpage but with no menus or address bars or any other screen ‘furniture’.
I’ve only used Discourse a few times to ask a question and never had a response. Which is fine if no one wants to reply or knows the answer but the problem with it is that the question then gets lost.
I prefer this forum…
Unless you can tell me I’m using Discourse wrongly. (Which I wouldn’t be surprised about as a lot of people love it!)
I’ve just discovered that if you go to the three dots menu then tick the desktop site box you can "reach"up to choose backend-selected. Hope this helps
After months of not understanding why I couldn’t find the “backend-selected” option on a particular device I decided to check the forums and since I’m not alone, here’s my experience…
The device had a manually selected theme, and the option for “backend-selected” was missing. Logging in on another device with the same user, it defaulted to “backend-selected” there, but on the problem device it remained the same (Service: frontend.set_theme had no effect - the theme could only be manually set)
Conclusion: the Theme setting from the User menu is cached with the logon session
Just tried that, it did change it back to backend selected. however, it didnt actually change to the right theme, I have the automatons where I can change the theme from a view and it will change on all my devices, which works, except for the mobile. Even with it on backend selected it was actually the default theme instead of the custom ones my other devices have. also, it wasn’t in the list anymore, so when i changed it again, its gone again.,