[WTH] - Dashboards

Month of "What the heck?!"
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Hi,
Sometimes I wonder whether some geniuses and clever minds here are a bit out of touch with reality.
Please don’t misunderstand:
HA is really great! Thanks for that!

BUT: SOMETHING IS ALWAYS… :wink:
The dashboards are a huge annoyance for me. There are so many great maps, etc., but all the ones I’ve seen so far are unsuitable as an OVERVIEW map: packed and confusing, mostly just a gimmick, entity names, ROUNDED CORNERS - what’s the point? WTH…
I sometimes ask myself whether we’re just playing with sensors here, or whether we’re really using HA in a MEANINGFUL way in reality.

But back to the dashboards:
I would rather call the HA dashboard a table of contents or registration. I think it’s good on its own. Current, structured, status and value display. Like a table of contents with chapters (areas). Of course, over time… ‘Clear’ is different, even then!
Well, if I keep my mouth full here, then I can also make a suggestion.
SO I would like an overview map, and I think it shouldn’t be too difficult to implement. Unfortunately for me at the moment.
Everything is just static, i.e. no entities etc. integrated, just html and css. Images are svg, I am happy to provide them.
3D floor plans or 2.5D floor plans take up too much space and don’t look good either, they are too overloaded.!
I hope someone will be motivated enough to create this kind of dashboard. Please be sure to contact me.
I see everything! One View! And there is many of place to use. It’s not overloaded imo.
EVERYTHING OK:

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‘ALARM’:

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Window: opened, tilted, closed
Roller shutter: open, closed
Doors: opened, closed
Light: on, off
Mail: in, none
Text: Room temperature, air humidity and pressure, light intensity, air quality, power consumption of individual devices, heating-temperature
NO ENTITY NAMES NEEDED HERE!

WHAT IMPORTANT information are you missing?
Suggestions are welcome and encouraged.
You could do so much with it:
For example, clicking on a heating or a room value opens the energy map or the temperature map, whatever…
You could control light, and so on.

Skin in! U R welcome.

So long
Pc

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You can currentky build an overview map with the Picture Elements Card.

As for the default dashboard, a revamp is underway

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You can currentky build an overview map with the Picture Elements Card .

thank you, i will throw an eye on it.

[EDIT]
Great, seems to be what I was looking for, thanks!

BUT: the documentation…

These are obviously images, but no word on what type of image you can use.
Examples include .jpg and .png.
Not a word about svg, etc…WTH

Thanks again.
[/EDIT]

So long
Pc

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It does support SVG.

It would be nice if the docs mentioned the supported file types, though. You could make another WTH

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about what, exactly ?

but i plan to start another, cause i often miss the exactly way to integrate things.
I’m a beginner, and i often read: write in the yaml. I know, it is the configuration.yaml, but i always want to have this in an external file. Ok if you know the domain, then ok. But often the domain isn’t documented. A Info-Box there would be nice.

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Would something like this be what you’re after?

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hi,
thank you. I tried this, but didn’t get it to work. The documentation about this is terrible.
Crossreading will never ending…

So long
Pc

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You can use this video (or probably tons other ones) and tweak the resulting images to your liking.

How to generate a dynamic floor plan

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Hi,
thanks a lot. I will watch it tomorrow.

So long
Pc