WTH: Why header so unnecessarily big?

[nicohirsch]

I’ve just found out that Mayker now stopped maintaining the Custom Header. The project will be archived in the next few days

Custom Header

I have come to the difficult decision to stop work on Custom Header. In the next few days I will be archiving the project. I invite anyone to try and resurrect it or, better yet, take parts of CH and make separate projects to cover small groups of related features. Who knows, maybe I’ll work on some of those as well. Custom Header has become a beast to try to support and update, it is an absolute mess of code. The next HA update will both break CH and CH will be the cause of major performance i…

[Steve_Jaspers]

Just wanted to add an extra vote for more flexibility concerning the header.
We have 2 kiosks at home and if custom header is no longer working those will look horrible.

[marcusone (Marc)]

I hope HA can add some simple customization options for the header soon now that we have “lost” Custom Header component.

Thank you!

[stephack]

I added my vote for this a while back but posting here again to help with visibility of this Feature Request.
The Flattened Header Junkies no longer have our Custom Header “fix” and we’re already going through withdrawal.

[jimz011 (Jim)]

If only we could hide the header entirely… thats all I really need!

[petro]

card mod it away, there’s posts floating around with the syntax

[stratotally (Steve)]

Thanks! Good to know for now, I’ll look for this workaround with card-mod. But in true “WTH” spirit, I still think this should be baked in, not hacked.

[Zarkstar (Edoardo)]

I’m here to support the idea of integrating the most important features of CH into HA Core!
I personally think the option of having a smaller Header should be a priority now that CH is not available anymore as a solution, as well as a “footer mode”.

[pepe59]

I will also join. The whole look at the tablet on the wall is degraded by the big header that takes up space and I think it should be customizable

[stratotally (Steve)]

FYI - for those looking, this comment has the card-mod code to get the custom-header look:

Card-mod - Super-charge your themes!

Put together a quick compact-header config for this in case anyone is interested. It’s just the standard compact header look, won’t affect edit mode (aside from shifting cards, will look for a fix), and should keep backgrounds and cards in the view unaffected. Commented as much as possible for any adjustments that would be needed. compact-header: card-mod-theme: compact-header card-mod-root-yaml: | ha-app-layout$: | /* This corrects top padding for the view. */ #content…

[stratotally (Steve)]

Following up while playing with this.

First, I set the “always hide sidebar” setting for the tablet user. Then I just wanted to remove the top bar entirely. With car-mod themes, this was easy using:

amoled:
  card-mod-theme: amoled
  card-mod-root: |
    app-header {
      display: none;
    }

…in the amoled theme I’m using. Reloaded themes using the service. Completely removes the top bar, including the slide out icon for the drawer. Important to do it in this order, otherwise you wont see the drawer to be able to click on the user icon…to hide the side bar.

[KTibow (Kendell R)]

I also made another alt config, just so people know:

thomasloven/lovelace-card-mod

[nicohirsch]

@KTibow Thank you very much! I’ll try that later today (temporarily - luckily CH still works so far).
But I still hope that the compact header will be native some day

[nicohirsch]

Oh yes!

Compact header

[christian_newton]

This is great! Any idea what update it will be in? 0.117.0 or later?

[nicohirsch]

I really don’t know. The next beta release is in two days - if everything goes well, it could be in 0.117.0

[pergola.fabio]

but that PR is not about hiding the header?

[KTibow (Kendell R)]

and this What The Heck is not about hiding the header?

[pergola.fabio]

Ok you are right

[nicohirsch]

For hiding the header completely, you can try that one: https://github.com/matt8707/kiosk-mode
(but of course, at the moment you can still use custom header for that until it breaks)