5 INCREDIBLE Home Assistant Dashboards

A nice looking smart home dashboard is a key component of your smart home, it's how you will interact with your devices, get information and most importantly of all, its how you get street cred with other smart home enthusiasts when you whip out your phone to compare who has the nicest app, but with tons of community made dashboards out there, it can be hard to know where to get started, so lets cover 5 incredible looking dashboards that you can get started with right now!
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0:00 - Intro
0:28 - What is a Dashboard?
2:32 - Dwains Dashboard
4:07 - Homekit Inspired
5:29 - SWAKES
6:21 - Homekit Infused
7:14 - Minimalist

[@EverythingSmartHome]

What dashboards your favourite?! 😅

[@dwains]

Dwains Dashboard :D

[@williamastrom6828]

Dwains dashboard is the best!

[@henkeball]

Dwains dashboard is my favourite!!

[@whzi]

Dwains

[@pavolholes]

Dwains Dashboard

[@mistergooddeal_]

Thanks a lot for your video! I was looking for a great dashboard for a while. I watched a lot of your videos in the past, you deserve so much more subs 😊 Keep going!

[@JohnBeardon]

Thanks for this one Lewis. While I've spent far too much time on my dashboards to let something automagically build from scratch, it's was really interesting to see what's out there. Some really 'nice' design ideas in there which I may well look at incorporating in my own setup.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha thanks John, agreed it's good to see what's out there and get inspiration!

[@GaryBarclay]

Great video Lewis, done with at least 4 breaths ... wasn't counting. Some awesome inspiration here. Been trying to build my own and I just don't have those chops. Gonna pick one of these and build from there. Thanks for taking the time to put this out there.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha cheers, have fun with the rabbit hole!

[@victorbarrios96]

Hey! Just starting my home assistant Journey and your videos have been really helpful. Thank you very much!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hey that's amazing, thanks for the support and enjoy!

[@ghostwheel208]

Thank you Lewis for the usefull info about HA dashboards. Love your channel, keep up the good work.

[@pr19580]

Thanks Lewis, another great video I didn't know I needed! How about an in-depth setup of the two simpler ones - Dwains & HKI - to get people ( i.e. me! ) started?

[@jplab]

Noice! Love the video, and aptly timed as I was looking into upgrading my dashboard this last weekend (but got lost in all the options) And yes, lets do some more!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Good luck!!

[@nyasha1530]

Enjoyed this - thank you Lewis. Will definitely use some of these concepts in my new design

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks, glad it was useful!

[@xxxanonymousexxx]

A follow up video would be great. It’d be interesting to pick one device or common action and see what it looks like in the different environments.

[@joudatfd]

Great video. Personally i use just normal lovelace on family phones, each person has it's own dashboard with per room tabs. I have put old tablet aside, one year ago, to use it for living room/hall dashboard, but i just don't know, what to put there, to make it usable/handy

[@hybrispsycho1]

Nice. been seeing these custom ones for ages but had no idea how to setup. thanks again for reding my mind haha

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha thanks for watching Mark!

[@danielleong9535]

Great video! I do think that a dashboard is an integral part of a smart home because it can give you actionable analytics and really bring out the value of home automation to other people in your house. And that encourages everyone to adopt the smart home setup. I approach my dashboard by trying to make it more like an interactive infographic (I make maps for a living!). My primary challenge is how to make all the relevant info fit into one screen without making it cluttered or confusing. Quite a challenge if you only have the real-estate on a mobile phone screen to work with!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

That's awesome, would be interested to see your work!

[@alexbergsland]

Nice! I'll start with the minimalist one. Thanks.

[@harryeriksson3928]

Could you do a video about how to set up the Minimalist dashboard?

[@rogeriocamargo1984]

Very good! Thanks for this one.

[@Silent1Majority]

Yeah, I'm voting for another follow up video. Thank you.

[@antoniorodriguezolmos]

It would be amazing if you did a tutorial on the Minimalist, since you mentioend you set it up recently. I'm not getting through 😅 And show what you've done with it!

[@vaughanza]

Thanks for awesome content , appreciate it. It would nice to see a followup on Dashboards etc News features etc , thanks

[@nortechnoob78]

Thank you for taking your time and showing us the "how to's" Would like to see how to install and customize the Minimalist UI.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks!

[@pawehaczkowski4810]

Huge thanks! You've done work that I was going to do :)

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@surfingnoid]

Great overview, thanks!

[@ronzoot602]

Hi could you also make a video how to install example (Homekit Infused ) from the install page and all because I really don't understand. thanks for all your videos

[@rodrigodiasmendesdasilva9184]

Existe algum treinamento para essa implantação que eu possa adquirir ? Se sim poderia me direcionar ? Pois sempre da erro ao carregar Pop-up's e não carrega a interface , poderia dar um direcionamento ?

[@dzeykop]

Again great video like always, thank you 👍

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks my friend!

[@adyjoy]

+1

[@colinnewman2000]

Would be really great to see a video on how to add these to my HS. I am always nervous when instructions suggest I start manually copying files about. :) Perhaps I should be more brave. 😀😀

[@zaidcapone]

Well done mate!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks maaaaan!

[@bookofjames]

need more of these!

[@magarmoreno]

I didnt find the SWAKES integration inside HACS. I would like to use it and get this wallpaper for dashboard. Thanks for your videos and support!

[@alelucc96]

Hi, I'm in love with minimalist UI and I am trying to implement into my HA and I was wondering if you could share your dashboard code. I was trying to replicate some cards that you have shown but I am struggling. Thank you so much

[@gehtdichnixan2801]

That would be really nice. I was trying the same over the weekend, but man: that was a horrible experience. From outdated (and duplicate?) documentation, an example which does not even replicate the screenshots they show and for some strange reason all the cards do not have the charming rounded corners per default as you can see everywhere ULM gets posted. I would really really appreciate if a quick guide could be made on how to achieve the look of all the screenshots. Does not have to be a full tutorial, just some real world examples would be nice to see, how they were set up, which adjustments were made, etc.

[@eitsscompany2753]

Very nice, bro!!!

[@nicoladellino8124]

Very nice video, TNX.

[@MaxIme-ny8bx]

Nice video thx! Suggestion for a part 2 maybe: - review Android App dashboard (like HomeHabit) - maybe a quick review on NodeRed dashboard possibilities. Keep us posted! Good job!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Max!

[@williamdrobinson9263]

I could not get Dwains Dashbord to work . Coped the folder to config and restarted Homeassistant but it did not show up. Also I see Supervisor on the main ui but I don't have that. Did I do something wrong or do I need to change something?

[@johndan4986]

Thanks for the great work in this video. Is it possible to do a demo video on each D.bs? I tried dwain, homekit fused and neon but was not successful due to the coding.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! I can give it a shot!

[@craigw4644]

Be cool to watch you build one of the presented front ends.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Will see what I can do 😅

[@techuser1619]

@@EverythingSmartHome It would be really great if you can make a video of yourself trying to set up the second one mentioned, Homekit by Mattias. That is a very popular one but only tutorial online is documentation and no video tutorials. Huge fan of all your videos! Keep up the great work!

[@maxmeyer7299]

very nice video, thanks. Your pronunciation is really super clear, so I can understand it well as a German, although my English is rather poor.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks! I'm surprised you can understand me, I don't think I'm a good speaker!

[@JottyHB]

Max is right, I do understand you quite well too. But Max: Fishing for compliments didn‘t work! 😜

[@dustinjorden6594]

do you have anything showing how to build the dashboard you built?

[@junkins]

Thank you! Great video. 😊

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Jamie!

[@erikvaliquette9773]

Nice! More dashboard videos please!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Will see what I can do!

[@WheelsNballs]

Thank you for the summary. I am currently trying to incorporate with the UI Lovelace Minimalist for the smartphones. Somehow it looks quite strange. Does anyone know of a good tutorial that walks you through it? I can't really figure it out from the documentation.

[@fearlessaustralia]

Any luck?

[@WheelsNballs]

@@fearlessaustralia not so far

[@callumjarrett]

Hi Lewis, Great video and overview of the dashboards. I've been building my own from the Lovelace UI Minimalist and trying to mirror one of Lovelace views of the Rooms from your video. Would it be possible to share some of your config for your Rooms\views and the grid\card buttons that navigate to other Lovelace views ie rooms, temperature, lights all in the same grid? I'm getting stuck with some of the coding of how to add it all in the same grid. Thanks

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hey Callum, thanks appreciate it! I hope to do some more videos showing some dashboards soon where we will maybe do a deeper dive on it!

[@callumjarrett]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks mate. It's just to see some of the config of how you have setup the Minimalist Lovelace. They do look like good views from the video and its good to reference on them as with others on the forums. Thanks

[@shlomom2882]

do Do you know a dashboard that allows editing a schedule for switches without entering automations?

[@gregnelson7349]

Thanks for the video. I tried an install of Minimalist, but failed, so would love to see more detail on installation. It seems that custom front ends in Home Assistant are not for mere mortals, I hope they can make this easier in the future.

[@matanm]

+1 on that, I'd love a tutorial if possible! I also failed installing Minimalist :(

[@gehtdichnixan2801]

Same here. I tried and spend several hours, but it seems that it does not even closely resemble the looks of all the screenshots in the default mode. Not to mention the outdated and faulty documentation on their webpage/github-wiki (i.e. missing/renamed third party requirements) and horrible first example which really does not serve a purpose.

[@francisudeh1393]

I gave up after 5 hours trying without luck.

[@MARIUSBAAR]

Yes how do I install these dashboards

[@niharbhagat]

Loved the format of the video. I hoped to see at-least one interesting hands-on use-case though. You could pull it off well 💪

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Check some of the later videos 😅

[@fins5150]

Hey Lewis where can one screenshot a dashboard for consideration?

[@marine1718]

I love the video i think you can do some type of classification that include support ease of installation how old it is if is only one user or a lot of user contributing to it!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

For sure! Thanks

[@timothymitchell7250]

Nice video!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hahaha

[@ramifara]

Could you please make a video about smart dimmer/switches

[@chimeranzl9147]

Nice. Niiiiice!

[@TheBioniXman]

Probably more great information. I went for the easy option, Dwains dashboard. Found the install instructions and failed on the first line "Go to HACS". What or where is HACS? Could someone please make a video for absolute beginners?

[@brianjohnstone3863]

I thought I'd add a nice comment but I see I'm way too slow. :-) Excellent video, really useful. I am still concentrating on the backend of my Home Assistant setup, Adding sensors, scripts and automations. I am yet to start implementing the frontend but this will be very helpful. Currently have 5 * Tesco Hudl 2 tablets running my own interface around the house but I can't get batteries and spares for them now so they have to be replaced. I have 10 * 8" Fire HD tablets to replace them and am starting to think about dashboards. Totally get the 'I'm not a designer' sentiment so this will be a great help when I get started on the UI. ~Brian

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha thanks Brian! Enjoy building out your setup!

[@emheiz]

Hi Brian, Have you wallmounted any if your HUDLs? I have not able to find a good way to do so myself. Not any beautiful solutions at least.

[@TwanJaarsveld1]

Funny that you uploaded a dashboard video after i was designing a brand new one for the past 2 days

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha god damn 😭

[@federicopietrelli7822]

Home kit by matthias? It's possible on Raspberry pi4?

[@pradeepdatta7577]

What would be the method to design a complete frontend including all elements, buttons, sliders etc as a normal Website and then connect the elements to an HA installation? Is one compelled to use the dashboard components or can one connect HA to such active elements using API etc?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

You could in theory design your own from scratch sure and use the API to pull in elements! Way out of my league though!

[@pradeepdatta7577]

@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks for pointing out the possibilitly. We have a customer specified design, that needs to be "filled with life". I'll shop around for a developer, knowing that such a thing is possible.

[@uSlackr]

Great idea for a video. I suffer from the creativity issue too

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks Greg, you and me both!

[@yewade6629]

Thanks for the video,love the above dashboards styles. If anyone need home assistant hardware,I can offer. Pre-install supervisors,zigbee zwave wireless modules on board.

[@BennProbett]

Nice!

[@wouterdr]

Nice video

[@alkacl1618]

5:06 maaan i need that integration with my Roborock S5!!! how dis you do it!?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Check the dashboard code!

[@d_sellers1]

Nice video. ;)

[@EverythingSmartHome]

😂😂

[@pfunkPT]

NICE!!!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

😭😂

[@Teegray1124]

I would love to see your smart home for inspiration

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Maybe one day 😅

[@graemehunter9077]

Where does appdaemon and hadashboard sit in the mix these days? Is it still relevant?

[@easthulk99]

I count about 78 nice word😁😁😁 nice... I also not a creative person thus i just used stock lovelace. To me as long i can control my devices and have my trending graph of my sensor.. it just good enough for me.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Nothing wrong with that! 😅

[@GauthierDelaite]

One day you will talk about my dashboard in a video like this 😆

[@EverythingSmartHome]

What's your dashboard?! 😅

[@rh535]

Could you please add links to the projects in the description next time? Thanks for the videos!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Hello, the links are always in the description, can you not see them?

[@rh535]

@@EverythingSmartHome I can now. I did not see any links when I posted my comment. Thank you!

[@UNVIRUSLETALE]

I didn't even know that was a thing and I just had a ugly dashboard, thank you for the vid!

[@aguyfrombelgium7915]

NICE!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

So nice

[@gusmason5165]

Adding on my android Tab S4

[@RustyShackelford_]

You must be a backend dev... You suffer from the same creativity deficiencies as me 😆

[@EverythingSmartHome]

The struggle is real 😂

[@HumHindustani007]

this stuff is so confusing....too much info out there!!! Here is my question----let's say I have couple of devices using WL 2.4 at home and I want to create a dashboard on a Android tablet so I can control all of them. Can I use HA for this? Will HA give nice layout of dashboard?

[@MatSmithLondon]

Nice.

[@dpn1604]

Nice. 😁

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Agreed 😂

[@MalcolmAber]

......nice video :P :P

[@egesanli619]

they look nice.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Agreed 😂

[@thespencerowen]

Nice

[@MosesZeitouny]

how to install one of these dashboards ?>

[@danang843]

Can you share the links to those dashboard?

[@sierratango69]

Check the description :)

[@TwanJaarsveld1]

Can you even read or just type ?

[@EverythingSmartHome]

They are in the description as always!

[@calendil]

Nice..

[@VishN7]

Nice. ;-)

[@EverythingSmartHome]

🤣

[@EuroWabbit]

im kind of impartial to HADashboard...

[@markshaz8691]

Dwains is the best but it’s a little harder than you made it sound.

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Not relative to a lot of others it's not, that's why I also said "there is no true beginner dashboard because they are all hard"

[@holewijn]

Dwains Dashboard

[@EverythingSmartHome]

It's goooood!

[@dmacpher]

“You don’t need a dashboard if your doing home automation” … wait… instructions unclear 😝

[@EverythingSmartHome]

You missed a word at the end there "doing home automation right" 😜

[@dmacpher]

@@EverythingSmartHome annnnd I messed up you’re … Oof. I need more coffee

[@Tracherot]

But I want shit to be beautiful

[@mmaster23]

Dwaine's dash completely broke my install in the past.. not trying that again and certainly not beginner friendly.

[@Dw1nl]

Depends how long ago you tried it. It's completly stand alone now so it won't touch any other Home Assistant dashboard/part

[@fifesimracerguy455]

Its a shame these all need Home Assistant as that has to be installed on Pi or Virtual Machine which can be very confusing even for me

[@EverythingSmartHome]

It doesn't? Home assistant sells pre-installed devices if you don't want to do any install for yourself :)

[@fifesimracerguy455]

@@EverythingSmartHome OK never come across that part could you link this of possible please

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Have a search for Home Assistant Blue or Home Assistant Yellow

[@franslieshout7171]

Its frustrating for me only to see this while there is not a really good howto, at least not one I can found

[@EverythingSmartHome]

I've done two dashboard mobile dashboard full guides

[@rebe7800]

Hurry

[@user-ml1uk1ff1s]

I am new to Home Assistant and looking at old KZbin of Home Assistant installs is very confusing. If you have done any Home Assistant KZbin videos and included Yaml edit and it is no longer necessary with the new release 2023.7. Please redo the KZbin video. Love your channel, just not a joiner. Thanks, NewBe

[@EverythingSmartHome]

This is really not an old video and is still pretty much the same as it was in this video. Everything still applies here.

[@SMGGM]

Nice!

[@NylzTube]

Nice.

[@kccustom1]

Nice

[@jugfire]

Nice!

[@johansj]

Nice!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

😂

[@pangit9999]

Nice!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Haha 😂

[@specialwilliams]

Nice!

[@EverythingSmartHome]

Thanks!

[@davidnestico]

Nice.

[@jacobsecor5015]

Nice.

[@SvevoDj]

Nice.