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🏠 Home Assistant configuration for a smart-looking place! 😎
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These are dashboards to be used in a wall-mounted tablet to control Home Assistant the same way you would on a computer, only in a more appropriate interface for casual and often-on display.
Most implementations of AppDaemon/HADashboard focus on having a car-like in-dash interface and overloading the screen with tons of sensors. That leads to a poor user experience in my opinion.
When using a large-enough format tablet, I prefer intuitive interfaces like the ones you are familiar with on fixed-width websites. Intuitive navigation, just enough data to feel at ease without being overwhelmed. And it must be pretty-enough to be hung on a wall ...literally!
These dashboards target a 10" display tablet with 1024x800 resolution using a full-screen browser. In my case I use Adroid and the Fully Kiosk Browser with the status-bar active on a white Acer Iconia One. It's great for this usage: it has an IPS display, is relatively inexpensive, looks good, has a responsive touchscreen, is snappy enough with its 2GB of RAM, is made to be held at the horizontal, and has a top-mounted front-camera for eventual screen wake-up on motion. I have it held in place using Koala damage-free wall-mounts in a central location, and it is permanently hooked to USB power.
The top menu and left-hand navigation are fixed. The navigation colours change depending on which dashboard you're on and the top menu title changes accordingly. That makes navigation intuitive for anyone.
Contains fixed elements showing at the top of each dashboard.
Dashboards are split into 4 pages, organized in a similar fashion as /ui-lovelace.yaml/ only with less administrative features and prettier colours.
With a feel-good welcome message, common actions, quick weather status, bus schedules, and rotating set of weather radar, satellite map and pretty pictures of the day.
Organized my room and control zone, including climate control. Looks kind of like Tetris! 😃
With current conditions, forecasts, air quality, and rotating satellite images and animated radar maps.
Geeky details about Home Assistant, network, battery status and per-location temperature and humidity.
The /appdaemon/custom_css/modern/ theme is based on an adapted version of the default theme. Only some CSS rules differ, in addition to support for third-party and custom widgets.
The contents of many tiles depend on specific template sensors to make information easier to digest.