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.
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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.
It's pulled from my main router using it's metric for it. It only updates once a minute or so, but it's a nice metric.
Once I switch over to more powerful gear, I'll probably have to start using SNMP, which I don't look forward to!
I like the low battery panel. I might copy that. I have a general overview over all batteries, but it didn't occur to me that I could filter the values and show only the ones needing replacement.
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:
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):
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.
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.
Got other pages for specific functions. Not room based. Media, heat pump, server stats, climate inside, energy prices and usage per fase, adaptive lighting…
My default dashboard is maybe a little bit unusual:
It's the blood glucose levels of my daughter (and mine in the next tab) as we are both T1 diabetics. The levels are transmitted via a tool called Nightscout and then shared with Home Assistant. This allows my wife and myself to get notified via light signals at night (in addition to the alarm her blood glucose sensor sounds). The dashboard also contains average levels for several timespans as well as an estimated long time level (Hb1Ac).
The second dashboard is an overview of all the lights, sensors and appliances located on a floorplan of the house:
There are several tabs grouping lights (and appliances), sensor readings and battery levels.
I went for the floor plan approach. Overall this works well for me to do a quick visual check of the house, and to easily track down any given control. Though I need to clean up a few old entities.
Should be noted: I still try to automate as much as possible with room-specific presence detection, and still have functional physical switches for lights.
Here's mine, slowly been simplifying it. Now just have mushroom cards, hue like light cards and mini media player to control my most used devices. Plus I rent so don't have a smart thermostat or other rain or garage sensors.