WTH can't we force a certain amount of columns?

Month of "What the heck?!"
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21

Yeah but your screenshot shows only 4 sections can fit.

If you want more columns, you need to decrease the size of the sections. That’s all manual

22

Right. I want 5 or 6 sections wide. It’s a 32" screen. Can I make that happen using sections? Maybe I’m just missing something.

23

Click on each new section and adjust the size. I believe it’s under one of the tabs. Worse case is you have to adjust it in yaml.

24

When I edit the section it shows a width of 1. I can make it wider but not narrower. Do you know how to do it in YAML?

25

There’s a setting somewhere that ends up being a fraction, you can change that. I don’t remember where I found it as it’s been a couple of months. As for yaml, just change that setting, swap to yaml and alter the values.

Edit: it’s a yaml only setting, I don’t read frontend code so it’s likely in the docs.

Edit edit, it’s on each card

26

Well I added column_span: 0.5 to each section and now my tablet only shows 3 and my desktop only shows 4 sections across. Not what I expected.

27

my “workaround”:

using lovelace-global-mod, I edited a new template to zoom out, making a column more available.

add this to the template file:

Theme name:
  zoom-drawer-selector: "home-assistant-main"
  zoom-drawer-style: |
    home-assistant-main { 
      zoom: 0.93; 
    }

relaod with service call “Home Assistant Frontend: Reload themes”

and then change the theme for a user/device.