WTH - Organising devices on Energy dashboard

Month of "What the heck?!"
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Sometimes as the house gets expanded, more items get added. Unless I’m missing something I can’t see a way to drag and re-order “individual devices”

The order things get added, means they get assigned a colour, On other areas sometimes the colours are in other orders for visually matching items. So it would be amazing like on Automations you create to just easily be able to drag and re-order these items.

If i needed to move a recent one closer to the top of the list, as far as i can work out i would have to delete them all and re-add them again in the order.

Fully expecting i’m missing a way to do this though.

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What should the ordering bring you? On the energy dashboard it will not mirror your order but just order down by energy used.

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So i know they show in order on the main page highest at the top etc.

But when you add them to the Devices list. That order they get added in seems to determine their colour assigned. An alternative for re-arranging the “added order” would be to have a colour swatch selector. That way on other areas of your Home assistant you could easily change the colour to match :slight_smile:

In other areas i can assign the colour easily by say HEX code, but on the above area it kind of is auto assigned.

As you add devices it’s helpful to keep the colours the same per item so having the option to specify it (as well as a default assigned) would help. Not to mention at times when you add themes, and embed energy dash items some colours just don’t work well.

Not this exactly but the principle is the same and it gives an idea.

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But say on this, chart also.

I could go in and specify a colour. But it would be nice to be able to do that in the Energy dash, to help match to elsewhere.

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Then it would be better to select a color for the devices instead of changing the order.

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Yea, I agree, a little colour selector - either type box or something like say this on the Edit device would be best.

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Organisation as you expand things and add so many devices is really key to avoid confusion.

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This has actually come up today as an issue…

I had to delete a device i now no long need to track. It was halfway up the list. It’s now shifted all of the colours for the other devices by one, so everything is now out of sync over all of my dashboards :expressionless:

BIG Sigh!!!

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Just saw a reply and it sounds similar to this - WTH Is in Energy Dashboard the individual devices not able to reorder

But the colour addition to have higher control would be beneficial still i think in addition.