WTH can't we set a default theme?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
1

Everytime we add a new user we need to set the theme manually. And everytime we want to change the theme we’ll have to do it again for every user!

Why can’t we just set a default theme as the fallback for ALL and if we change it we change it for ALL at once?

2

Yes. It would be nice if profile settings were per user rather than per device. And a global default could be part of that. +1

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What I usually do is an automation on homeassistant start event to set the theme:

automation:
  - alias: "Home Assistant start"
    id: home_assistant_start
    trigger:
      - platform: homeassistant
        event: start
    action:
      - service: frontend.set_theme
        data:
          name: my_theme

so it is defaulted for all users.

4

Yes, I do that too, but you still have to make sure all the profile themes are set to “Backend Selected” on all the devices.