Dashboards can be shared and imported, like blueprints

[laupalombi]

Problem statement

Carefully crafted dashboards might be super useful to other users, but sadly there is no direct way to import dashbords to give them a go - as you would do with other things available via blueprints. This would allow not only a lot of exposure to dashboard creators, but also way easier transition into custom dashboards.

Scope & Boundaries

In scope

• Finding a way to add dashboards from other instance to your own through UX

Not in scope

• Any additional tools like dashboard adaptations before sharing, or the "marketplace" to get them. Just 1 on 1 sharing for this time.

Foreseen solution

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Community signals

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Risks & open questions

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Appetite

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Execution issues

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Decision log

Date	Decision	Outcome

[laupalombi]

There is a very active conversation about this in discord: https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1351536906437005313/1488480237460389968

[mik-laj]

Interesting opportunity - worth considering a broader scope than user-to-user sharing.

One angle: allow integrations and custom components to register and manage their own dashboards. The component author knows exactly which entities and cards are needed, so the dashboard can be precise and maintained alongside the component itself. Updates ship with the component via HACS, no manual remapping by the user.

Examples where this would shine:

• A vacuum integration (dreame-vacuum) shipping a ready-to-use vacuum control dashboard
• A custom card (calendar-card-pro) providing a demo/showcase dashboard out of the box
• A monitoring integration shipping its own analytics view e.g. home-assistant-global-health-score, proxmoxve
• Some integrations practically require a dashboard to be usable at all - the remote platform is a good example, where controlling a device needs a picture-elements card. Currently this requires manual setup with no guidance, and there's an open issue reflecting that pain.

HACS already has a dashboard repository type, but it's essentially file distribution - not a managed, integration-owned dashboard. This could go further.

This doesn't replace the user-to-user sharing idea, but might be a more impactful first step given how fragile shared dashboards can be when entity IDs and custom cards don't match.

[laupalombi]

Actually @mik-laj that is really interesting. Not sure if this would be an MVP for this feature, but for sure something to consider, and makes total sense.

[laupalombi]

Moving this to Shaping - lots of great ideas in discord (updated link) , will add them in a few days here and start shaping the concept.