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… For a long time, I treated my Home Assistant dashboard like a dumping ground rather than a finely-tuned control room. I wanted everything visible at once: every light, every sensor, every switch, every graph. If it existed in my smart home, it was on the main dashboard. …
… That's what my original dashboard looked like: a long list of light sensors, switches, and controls. It definitely wasn't very useful. However, Home Assistant's dashboard system is incredibly flexible. …
… Better yet, PowerCalc meshes well with the Energy Dashboard integration, so you can import the virtual power sensors created by the former into the latter’s UI. …
… Sometimes, it's almost required for perfecting more complex automations , like my provided example with Octopus Energy my energy supplier , solar PV and battery setup, and Energy Dashboard. …
… The best part is that energy tracking can be checked through the energy dashboard as well as individual entity cards. It transformed the way I manage the smart home, and I only wish I had done it sooner. Why even bother monitoring energy usage? …
… Setting up Home Assistant We needed a touch dashboard Using Home Assistant on larger displays is well and good, but smaller devices with touchscreens could really use a touch-friendly dashboard. …
… Finally, the Apps dashboard has been renovated. …
… The app uses ESPHome’s protocol to implement its own Bluetooth Low Energy proxy. It turns your phone into a presence sensor, detecting nearby Bluetooth Low Energy devices and reporting them to Home Assistant. …
… While the continue on error automation action and energy dashboard improvements are pretty neat additions to HASS, the native wake on word detection for the Android-based companion app is hands-down the best feature of the update. …
… From there, I created a simple dashboard. …