A Home Assistant frontend plugin that allows the navigation bar to be moved to the bottom of the screen.
Note: This repo has been updated to work with HA versions > 2023.04, it will not work on anything lower, please keep this in mind if you open an issue and are using an older version.
Install via HACS by searching for "Navbar Position".
Or install manually by dropping ha-navbar-position.js into your Lovelace dashboard resources.
The primary way this plugin is activated is by adding navbar=bottom to the dashboard URL, like so:
http://<hass>:8123/some-dashboard/some-view?navbar=bottom
The navigation bar will be moved to the bottom of the screen until the next page refresh.
To save the navigation bar position to localStorage and move the navbar to the bottom automatically without having to specify navbar=bottom every time, use navbar_cache:
http://<hass>:8123/some-dashboard/some-view?navbar=bottom&navbar_cache
Thereafter, page loads that don't specify any navbar query parameters will default to moving the navbar to the bottom.
To clear the saved position and return the navbar to the top on future page loads, use navbar_cache without navbar=...:
http://<hass>:8123/some-dashboard/some-view?navbar_cache
There will likely be additional ways to configure this plugin in the future - pull requests gladly accepted.
For scenarios where it isn't possible to edit the URL directly (e.g. when using the Home Assistant mobile apps), you can toggle the navigation bar position on a per-device basis using the Navbar Position Configuration Card custom card.
Add it to a dashboard of your choosing, then click the card's "toggle navigation bar position" button on any device where you want to move the navbar to the bottom of the screen. The button will save the change to localStorage; you can then get rid of the card and the navbar will continue to show up at the bottom of the screen on the device in question.
The page is scanned every second to see if the header has appeared or has been replaced. This means that while switching between views within a single dashboard leaves the navbar at the bottom, switching between dashboards or other pages in the Home Assistant UI will cause the navbar to jump back to the top for ~1 second when you return to a dashboard. PRs gladly accepted to sprinkle some more MutationObservers around to get rid of that delay.
This also only moves the dashboard navigation bar; it doesn't move navigation bars associated with any other screens. PRs welcome to handle that as well.