Home Assistant Mushrooms! Build a mobile dashboard using only the UI. No YAML needed!

[@MatthewN8OHU]

Between you and Smart Home Junkie, I'm beginning to really appreciate the breadth of customization options for a dashboard that can be found in HACS. I definitely see the possibilities that can be had for a good mobile dashboard that provides just the information and control I want in the Home Assistant Mobile App. Now I just need to figure out how to do my two home tablet dashboards, one for my solar power system and the other for my Home information visualization system.

[@MarkGhali]

Excellent Video! Between you and Lewis I have dashboards coming out of my ears!

[@jmr]

Lewis?

[@MarkGhali]

@@jmr Everything Smart home is Lewis' youtube channel! He just made a video on making a dashboard using mushroom cards, check it out his channel is great!

[@MarkGhali]

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[@jmr]

@@MarkGhali Thanks! EDIT: I recognize him now! I just didn't know his name.

[@mostlychris]

One cannot have too many dashboards..or videos of making dashboards.

[@aaaafaaaaf]

Chris, as always a very informative video. Overall I enjoy your videos, the only thing that I find unnecessary is that you read your screens word for word. I think that must of your followers can read the screens. thank you for all the work and effort you put into the videos.

[@mostlychris]

Thanks for the feedback. It's just my nature to be thorough. Could probably shorten the videos if I didn't read it all.

[@javuda]

Great video! I was thinking of rearranging my dashboard, this gives me a good excuse to finally do it :)

[@mostlychris]

Go for it!

[@andrejsersen59]

Great video Chris! Finally a helpful video on custom dashboard, I have been struggling with dashboard design and I think this could be the one :) Thanks and keep up the great work!

[@mostlychris]

Glad it was helpful. I've got some other dash videos that you might find useful. Check out the playlist.

[@bclee__]

This was a great video and I learned a lot. But when you went from dark to light mode, I had to close my eyes for a while 😂. Too many hours tinkering on HA in the dark

[@mostlychris]

Thought it might be easier to see in the video. Forgot about the possibility of blowing some retinas. I run this in dark mode in my HA system.

[@zafrirsh]

Great Video, Thanks!

[@fiderhit]

Thank you for explaining!! Learned a lot in 23 minutes. Question: is there a way to add a list of rooms to a grid, and then open the related pages?

[@SolaryPoseidon]

You can use entitny cards in a grid and then set the entity for each as each room/page.

[@MarkusBurrer]

Great Video. But why did you use grids? You can do all of this with horizontal and vertical stacks

[@jimmielarsen270]

Thank you! So well explained : )

[@mostlychris]

Thanks!

[@tald747]

Very nicely explained and demonstrated. I will surely use these mushrooms. Thank you 👍

[@mostlychris]

Thanks for watching!

[@RJMaker]

You had me at 'no yaml'.. :-)

[@mostlychris]

lol

[@s2pido84]

When i add grid view card i dont have mushroom option. All that i have is manual. I had installed mushroom.

[@horaciohermosillo3417]

These mushroom cards are amazing and make HA look great but is there a way to change the color of the card instead of just the icon based on the state. Not sure if i couldn't find it.

[@ItisamJavaid]

great video, how do you have so many smart devices added / installed on Hass? are you using some simulated devices, if so then how ?

[@mostlychris]

Everything except for maybe one or two are real live devices. How? I just have added them over the years.

[@ranaway34]

Thanks for the video. How do you do wrap text?

[@shannonbreaux8442]

Can you change the icon size with mushroom entity card if so how ?

[@ajaxstationers]

Thank you great 👍 video. Could you please make a video about setting up alarms as I have watched lots of video and none of them make it simple as you do especially I was looking at Alarmo integration but it works some times

[@mostlychris]

Thanks for the compliment! I'll add the alarm video suggestion to my list.

[@travisbully]

Great video! (and starting to look at your other ones) Can you elaborate on the "groups of lights"? I'm new to HomeAssistant and as a 10+ year Vera user, I have a lot of learning to do. This video will be helpful getting a "wife approved" dashboard setup. Thanks!

[@mostlychris]

I just group lights in certain areas. I have one group that is all inside lights that comes on at night when any outside door is unlocked. I have backyard lights group, front yard lights group, etc. You can set groups up in Home Assistant to group entities however you want. For example, you could have a group in an area that all gets acted upon based on an automation or trigger. BTW, I had vera for a short time and after it stopped working randomly all the time, the acceptance factor started to go away so I rushed to something that actually worked (HA).

[@ralfhoelting6508]

Hallo Chris, nice video ! THX. Just a question - is there an option to protect an action with a pin code. Thinking of a vaccation home to protect some actions from "child" use.

[@mostlychris]

You can limit users to certain actions so that is potential way.

[@JasonDiesel]

Chris, do you have a video on the scripts you mention around the 9min mark?

[@mostlychris]

Not specifically. Might be time for one though.

[@meierthomas]

Love the simplicity of it... Given the dashboard needs to be "approved" by everyone in the house to be used, less is more... Along the same lines I'd love to build a "notification system" that counts the number of events/issues I'm interested in monitoring, e.g. door not locked, window open, garage open, device battery at critical level etc. and simply give me a number on a chip on the dashboard. The number corresponds to the number of issues found. Would be time driven (as opposed to event driven as it's ok for the door not to be locked when we're in the garden for instance). When I click on the chip it brings me to a page showing the issues found... Do you have something like this in your setup?

[@fdelacou]

You can create a dashboard with a view per person and limit the visibility of that view to that person. This way there is no need to seek approval from the rest of the family/residents. Especially for a phone experience.

[@meierthomas]

@@fdelacou How do.you check.fpr.events that need attention? Such as an unlocked door or a sensor batter that needs replacing? I'd like to build something central like the HA home feed card that gets fed with events from the system and pulls it all into one place?

[@fdelacou]

@@meierthomas you can use a conditional card that check for a state. Not sure if you can use an event but most events are state changes so that should do it and then use the card that you want for the events happened.

[@Wimpieseigen]

Excellent. Thanks. One question. Is there a way too make the icons and text bigger? It’s very small, tiny.

[@mostlychris]

I'm not aware of any. This sentence on his github probably explains it best: "The goal of Mushroom is not to provide custom card for deep customization. You can use the excellent UI Lovelace Minimalist and Button card plugins for this."

[@Wimpieseigen]

@@mostlychris Thanks. Perhaps mushroom themes.

[@mostlychris]

@@Wimpieseigen I was thinking that might also be an option. Although I'd have to play around a bit to see how feasible it is.

[@MarcoDeAntoni]

If I would like to use lock card inside the mushroom card? How can I do it? Thank you

[@mostlychris]

The author of the mushroom cards is adding new ones all the time. As of this comment, there are bunch more cards, lock card included.

[@david6951]

I’m still learning but how did you get the mushroom card as a a card to select

[@mostlychris]

You need to add it via HACS.

[@jmr]

Thanks for this video. The HomeAssistant team sounded jazzed about this. Now I understand why. It looks great and that long press function will be perfect for my 3D printer. You don't want to accidentally cut off power 12 hours in to a 24 hour print! Q.) Do you know a good way to display attributes without installing a custom card? EDIT: I think I found my solution in the Mushroom card add on. Still an add on but this is one I already decided to use so not one I have to install for a single feature. The custom card allows templating it appears.

[@mostlychris]

Yes, you can use templates which should pull out the attributes. Sounds like you already have a solution.

[@jmr]

@@mostlychris Currently I have sensors for each attribute. Unfortunately the number of attributes change so I always have sensors that don't return useful data. I then use an entity filter card to show only the attributes that currently have a useful value. I think one of the mushroom cards might be a decent alternative but I haven't got a chance to set that up. I fell down a different rabbit hole and now it looks like I'm writing a custom add on for the Tablo TV DVR assuming I don't get sidetracked half way through.

[@mostlychris]

I used to run a tablo. I am using HD Home Run with Plex now. If only Tablo would let us record to Plex. It is a great platform otherwise. Also, being a Plex Pass sub gives me the guide for "free".

[@jmr]

@@mostlychris I'm a lifetime holder for Plex pass and Tablo's guide subscription so you could say equally invested in those platforms. That said when it comes time to upgrade I don't like the new Tablo 4K options. Tablo sadly gave up on Plex a long time ago. If my Tablo broke today I'd buy an HDHomeRun.

[@MrSupersidewinder]

Nice, possible to get it into docker compose build??

[@mostlychris]

Are you asking about using HACS with a docker version install of HA?

[@MrSupersidewinder]

@@mostlychris No, my build is docker compose based under the ubuntu 20.04 server.... I know I cannot directly use hacks, but I still want a way to add these tools... 😁

[@mostlychris]

Oh. Well, that has always been an issue with that type of install.

[@Beau-v3l]

appreciate the vid but this mustbe the worst mobile dash with mushroom low, just a bunch of cards, no layout

[@rebe7800]

A lot of the same

[@mostlychris]

Same?