Mine have always been a bit functional, and I’m curious what more creative people have achieved.
Anyone fancy showing off what they’ve put together? Feel free to blank out personal information, obviously.
And on another note, I’m now moderating this sub. Hi!
Let me know if there is anything you’d like to see added to the sidebar, I’m aiming to update it over the next few days.
My “What’s the internet connection up to?” card:
My “Leaving the house” card:
It’s nice to compare the local predicted temperature, and local sensor.
Currently, it’s using a Waze integration.
The coolest thing, is that it’s given me a really nice data set for when are the bad times to drive across town are. (Sadly, it’s during the morning and afternoon school runs).
It also reveals that the travel time on average is impacted significantly by the school holidays, and the weather.
What integrations did you use for all those lovely dials and what config did they need? I would like to shamelessly copy!
Good news: The gauge card is a standard component.
It is indeed! Mostly just fiddling around with the settings.
@smeg@feddit.uk, here is a paste of the config so you can play with it:
(If you click show code editor, then paste in, you can then go back to visual editor with things configured)
Speedtest needle gauges and ping with colour change:
type: horizontal-stack
cards:
- type: gauge
min: 0
severity:
green: 80
yellow: 50
red: 0
entity: sensor.speedtest_download
max: 100
needle: true
- type: gauge
min: 0
max: 20
entity: sensor.speedtest_upload
severity:
green: 16
yellow: 10
red: 0
needle: true
- type: gauge
min: 0
entity: sensor.speedtest_ping
severity:
green: 0
yellow: 15
red: 20
max: 100
Air quality with lots of different colours:
type: horizontal-stack
cards:
- type: gauge
entity: sensor.oxford_air_quality_index
needle: false
min: 0
max: 500
segments:
- from: 0
color: '#00e400'
- from: 51
color: '#ffff00'
- from: 101
color: '#ff7e00'
- from: 151
color: '#ff0000'
- from: 201
color: '#8f3f97'
- from: 301
color: '#800000'
name: 'Air quality: PM2.5'
unit: µg/m3
- type: gauge
entity: sensor.external_environment_f
max: 40
severity:
green: 18
yellow: 25
red: 30
needle: false
min: -10
- type: gauge
entity: sensor.oxford_uv_index
max: 10
severity:
green: 0
yellow: 3
red: 6
Once you’ve got your head around horizontal stacks (lets you put multiple small dials together), it’s mostly picking thresholds and settings colours.
I’m glad I glanced in here. I recently deleted everything and had to start again, but MET office was broken on my old install so I never tried again.
Your screenshots made me reinstall, and my phone remembered my Met office logins (bonus) so it took seconds. And it works!
What did you use to get the information for the current internet throughput?
I have this one on a wall mounted tablet.
- Left column:
- time and date
- solar battery level
- car battery level
- solar production vs. load
- camera of the entrance
- Middle column:
- current weather as measured by my weather station
- forcast for today
- list of open windows and doors
- (not shown) any emergency warnings (storms, etc)
- scheduled garbage collection for the different recycling types
- Right column
- warm water boiler control (override for the automation which turns it on only in the morning)
- current temperature in the boiler
- turn on/off the car charger (until I come around to automate it)
- List of devices that need their battery replaced
- rain radar
These are the most important values to be shown in the hallway. There are other dashboards for other situations…
Hej, could you share what kind of solar integration you use? I’m struggling to find a solar solution that integrates well with hass
Yeah, I have blog post on that: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2023-11/03-growatt_and_home_assistant
Not OP, but take a look at Open Energy Monitor - I use EmonPi which is a Raspberry Pi based system with current detection sensors
Uses the Emoncms Integration to read the data into HA.
You can also embed it’s own webUI into HA with a webcard
Still want to add a few bits of info to it, but I’m pretty happy with the dashboard for my kitchen display that sits on top of the fridge where I can see it from the living room as well:
Uses the excellent LCARS theme by th3jesta via HACS.
Almost everything shown is just standard markdown cards, with minor tweaks by card-mod, with the exception of the 2 weather widgets shown (also via HACS):
Mine’s mobile-friendly:
On top are reminders and common buttons, such as turn off all lights, open/close all shutters.
In the main body, each line is a room, the bulbs next to the room either turn off all lights in the room or turn them all on. If you press on the room name you can expand that room and control the devices inside:
Some devices can be expanded as well:
I also have pages for climate control and power management (the last one was created before HA implemented their own “Energy” page):
Recently I’ve started integrating my 3d printers in HA, but it’s still pretty rough. Super cool to have them light up when I walk in the room tho.
What are you using for reminders and what cards are those? Need this to not forget the trash 🤓
They’re all custom:button-cards with specific css and conditional cards to make them appear/disappear
I like the expanding room cards. Can you share how you’re accomplishing that?
They are conditional cards that whose condition is activated by pressing the room name. Unfortunately the only way I have found to pass a condition is to use an input boolean helper, which means that when one person opens a card, it opens for all users. Not a huge deal but annoying; I’ve asked for alternatives on the HA forum but I received no satisfying answer, the best solution would probably be to create a custom card.
You could check out expander card. I use it for a weather section on my dashboard.
https://github.com/Alia5/lovelace-expander-card
Editing the card is really buggy for me and I’m not sure the project is still open, given the note at the bottom about the issue tracker… but after it’s configured, the card has been very solid.
Main page of dashboard
If you long press on a tile (this is kitchen)