Dynamic Home Assistant Dashboards

This is cool!

I've been toying with completely redoing my dashboard now there have been improvements like this made. I had not really done a lot sicne Lovelace was introduced as it did what I needed, and there hadn't been huge improvements to the dashboards until recently.
You made this all look pretty easy, and I mighttake the plunge and redo my dashboard now.

Great video as always would love to see the tablet dashboards

Always been a bit too scared to mess with my dashboard but this looks super manageable!
I'll have to give it a go this weekend, thanks for the inspiration.

More dashboard videos!

Like you I saw Reed's video on the dashboards and decided to do it. I made one for my phone then I just duplicated it for my wife. She then told me what she like, wanted, and didn't want. I just tweek hers for her requests and we both have the dashboard we want. Also, by her having me make adjustments to her dashboard, I no longer get the annoyed wife saying were do I go for this or that.

Instead of having to create a new dashboard for each user, can't you use which user is currently connected, and use a variable to change "Alan's location" to "User location" ?

You mentioned to let you know in the comments if we'd like to see a video on your tablet dashboards, so: Yes! Please please please do a video on tablet dashboards!

This is amazing! I saw this on Reed's channel too and was blown away. I'm still tweaking which devices we want to see on which dashboards (that's me and my wife) and I'll probably nick a couple of your ideas. I've also used espresence based room presence as the basis for an Alexa voice command we can use if we leave our phone in a room and can't remember which room it's in. "Alexa, where did you last see my phone?" Sort of thing. This runs a script in Home Assistant that announces which room the phone is in. Works really well. I'm still having teething problems getting consistent room presence from each espresence device as we have a modern timber frame structure house with internal stud walls. Just when I think I've got all the absorption and max distance setings sorted it throws up something bizarre. It's about 90% there.

Reed's video really inspired everyone, didn't it 😅

I don't yet have BLE presence detection working reliably yet, so one of the things I added to my own take on this project was a set of three buttons at the top under the room selector that would quickly switch it to Auto, the computer room, or my bedroom. It's been quite useful in the interim at the very least to check and adjust rooms I'm not yet in, and I suspect that I might keep them even once I get tracking working more reliably.

If you wanted to not have to duplicate the dashboard for each person you could create the two drop-downs and show the relevant I've based on which user is viewing. Then set visibility conditions on room cards to something like:
User 1 viewing and user 1 location and user 1 drop-down = Auto
Or user 1 viewing and user one drop-down set to room
Or User 2 viewing and user 2 location and user 2 drop-down = Auto
Or user 2 viewing and user one drop-down set to room

Sadly not for iPhones =/

I’ve been watching your channel for quite some time now and have found each and everyone really interesting and well edited. I currently use SmartThings and Alexa but I’m really interested in dabbling with HA for its local control greater functionality. Ultimately fully implementation into HA. As I will class myself as a HA newbie is there any literature or channels that you could recommend as a “dummies guide” please as I rate your knowledge priceless. Keep up the great work and thank you for any help you can supply.

Thanks

Thanks for the shout out! You have some good ideas like the doorbell feed only showing when it needs to. Great job!

Keep them coming, great content, well done!

Superb job on the dashboard and video. Really nice.

Was Barney chewing on a shoe? Cute, but those puppy teething time!!

P.S. You should take look at the HA Dashboard Chapter 2 video from mid last week. Many of your Sections suggestions are coming, plus a new header button/chip card coming in the 24.8 release.

Awesome video and great you gave a shout out to Reed.

Recently did this for my home assistant setup and love it. Added tones of entities in visibility as an ‘or’ to speed up dashboards changing. Super easy to control things in the room your in even when majority of the time spent in automating means most things just work without manual interaction.