Home Assistant Dashboards for Beginners! (+ my favorite custom cards)

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Sorry i missed a step! You get to the page at 2:02 by clicking Settings>Dashboards. Hope that helps! Part 2 is out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIGyqqamd9d2gMk

[@toddkaminski1858]

Thank you, I've been using HA for a while and watching many YT channels on home automation. Majority of them, although very helpful, assume an understanding which is very basic but due to that none ever cover. You did an excellent job of covering not only the elements of the custom dashboards but all the details as to how and why everything works. It filled in many of those little gaps I was missing. I appreciate your time in doing these.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks for the feedback! I enjoy communicating the basics!

[@tomferrin1148]

This is one of the best HA beginner's dashboard videos I've seen! It got me over a beginner's hump that at first seemed almost insurmountable. Thanks for explaining things so clearly.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Glad it helped! It really is old but I'm afraid an update would still be pretty repetitive!

[@santiagoallande4780]

Thanks!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

You're welcome! Thank you so much for your support!

[@SportsGirlNumber9]

This is more of an enthusiastic “look what you can do” than the “your first dashboard” that I was expecting.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

sorry to hear that

[@richardgregory4640]

I'm new to HA. This is just what needed. Well explained. Detailed without being complicated. That's quite a skill. Time to work my way through your other vids...

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Glad you think so!

[@harrier1231]

My friend is fond of saying true brilliance is being able to take a complex subject and get someone who has no knowledge of it to understand. You, sir, are truly brilliant. I envy what you've done here, but as the ancients would say, an amazing tablet dashboard begins with one card.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Wow thanks, that's high praise! The ancients were right! Next video shows how to make the person card from this video

[@Amamialoo]

This is the video that I needed to finally jump in the creation of my own dashboard. Thanks!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Awesome, glad it helped!

[@Technocucej]

and now tell us how it went ? :D

[@CandiceRussell-d4o]

Excellent video. You have a flair to explain yourself in language that is clear to someone like me who has just started with HA. Keep on going I am all ears 🙂

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@keepitdialed]

What I appreciate about this youtuber is that he's got an eye for design. Amidst all my nerd-ery, it's gotta look tight. (Wled I love you, but I lose my marbles with that UI/UX). Am going to get home assistant for myself, did a search, saw booyah-man here and saved this vid for later. ✌

[@keepitdialed]

PS, going to be trying to build an always on todo list for my desk and fridge. If any body else is thinking the same and has some references then I'm all ears.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Hey, thanks Pete! I'm looking at doing a part 2 of this video, so if you run into anything you'd like to see, let me know and I'll see if I can include it.

[@MisterElephants]

Nice work. I've had enough of KZbinrs who just want to make silly jokes and carry on like rock stars while spending the first 3 minutes begging for a thumbs up. Straight into it in language I understand. You're my guy for HA.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks!!

[@Scribbby]

Perfect timing to get into Home Assistant.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Awesome! Enjoy!

[@tomferrin1148]

Aaron, please just ignore all the nasty and often personal comments posted by some people here. Your videos are really most helpful, give clear explanations that are extremely useful to noobs, and have personally saved me a ton of time getting up to speed with HA. It's very easy to be a critic and very hard to create. You are a valued creator. 🙂

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thank you sir! The more popular a video gets, the more rude comments! Gotta take the constructive criticism but leave the destructive!

[@SBinVancouver]

Recently (circa July 2023) when editing dashboards, Home Assistant provides a number in a circle at the base of each tile. That number presents the position of the tile. You can change it to relocate it anywhere - much more useful than the up/down arrows (which are still available).

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Yup! I covered that in my latest video. Excellent addition, but still not drag n drop 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIGyqqamd9d2gMk

[@Joseph-ko2kl]

Nice video and thanks but.... This is going to sound like a rant and sorry for that as it is not meant to be- the problem with 99% of the HA vids is the creators show all this great stuff and throw out CSS, Jinja, YAML, etc. but seldom, close to never show how it works which does zero for the new guy who has zero knowledge about any kind of coding and mostly frustrates us into giving up. I understand you can't do a 3 hour vid breaking it down Barney-style but could we get some examples to cut/paste so we at least feel like we accomplished something. Personally I have tried and failed..many, many times to find resources to learn any of it, so when you ref CSS or whatever could you throw us a bone and link a primer or something, that would be great. Please don't ref the "HA documentation " it is Zero help to the uninitiated. I am super happy there are smart people like you and others showing us what can be done but a couple vids showing us how to do it from time to time would be great too. Again not aimed at you- I am currently failing at trying to do some jinja coding and am feeling a bit salty. 😂

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I appreciate the feedback, no offense taken! I actually am planning a livestream tomorrow where I show how these cards work, and the recording will be on the channel after that! I think long form is best, but I can probably cut away the fluff since it will be my first live stream. And I totally meant to link the references and forgot!

[@Joseph-ko2kl]

@@MakeItWorkTech I will be in attendance then! LOL

[@scotthewitt6047]

​@makeitworktech did you ever make this video do you have a link

[@MakeItWorkTech]

kzbin.infoR0_eQt158bs?feature=share

[@AcquahBaiden]

Thanks loads for this. It’s the first video I’ve found that provides good information for new HA users

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! Glad it helped!

[@IPC0101]

Thanks for the video, clear information without too many assumptions

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks!

[@manukalias]

Thanks for sharing a way to make HA dashboard much more exciting to look at 🤩🤩 Just curious about 2 things, 1). Is there a video about persons card you have shown, sorry about asking before I even searched. 2). Whats are 2 round objects behind the monitors where one shows a Red Led and other green Led ? Your way of setting wallpaper on those monitors same color as of T-shirt makes the video even more stickable 🙏🙏 Lot's of love and respect from India 🙏🙏

[@conecomputersuk]

Cracking video! I’ve been using HA for 18months now and thought I new my way around but this has taught me something new - I’m off to tweak my dashboards!!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks man!!

[@guym6093]

As a starter, this was the piece I was missing. Thank you!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks, glad it helped!!

[@clairerovic]

Wish this was available 3 years ago. Very nice summary.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks!!

[@craigw4644]

HA front end is a tough subject to cover, the rabbit hole is huge. You did a good job. 😎

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! I still want to do a part 2. Maybe soon!

[@MarkGhali]

Love your chill vibe! Great videos!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks Mark! Thanks for being a subscriber!

[@d_sellers1]

I recommend talking about using templates via the Raw Editor. It cuts down on the amount of repeated code across buttons/cards of similar design and makes the YAML code easier to read/interact with at the Editor level. (PS. I saw HA forum post talking about making the "person" cards you have on your dashboard; I ripped the code apart to understand how the phone's battery percentage was used and placed on the card, turned the YAML into a template, and codensed the code using this.entity instead of hard-coding the entity into each card.)

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Hmm I'll look into that. I've never seen templates in the raw config of the dashboard!

[@d_sellers1]

Line 28 starts the templating section with one of the original examples that I started with. Line 44 starts one of my templates with line 67 being a template that references the template at line 44 for more specific customization. You can see the first use of a custom-button card using the template at Line 224. Line 235 uses a different template. I posted a couple of pictures and some information in the readme. The motion detector template is a good reason to use templates. The template is about 30 lines long and I have four motion detector buttons (which would take about 120 lines to implement if coded directly). Referencing the template only uses 4 lines per button (so 16 lines plus the template at 30 lines). ~120 lines vs 46 lines. Check it out and let me know what you think. (Note: Theres a bunch of "testing" stuff towards the end of the YAML that I use for testing/experimenting/learning.)

[@d_sellers1]

KZbin doesn't like me trying to post a link. Keeps deleting my messages.

[@crearelectronica]

@@d_sellers1 Try putting the link without the http or use a link shortener and maybe that will help... 🤔

[@claytonium13]

Nice video! HOW DID YOU GET THE CLOCK?! I've been trying for well over 4 hours trying to get a simple clock card to show the correct time on a device that i've blocked from the internet.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

That's the digital clock card from HACS

[@fredzibulski3111]

would be cool to see a video on how this dashboard was create from scratch looks awesome

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Hi Fred, thanks! I covered a lot of it in my latest livestream. I know it's a long video to watch, but I went over my general process of building it and what cards I used

[@fredzibulski3111]

@@MakeItWorkTech cool i will look for the video

[@pyrotenax472]

@@MakeItWorkTech could you link to that livestream you recorded , for us dashboard virgins 🙂. Thanks 👍

[@williammckee4369]

I enjoyed your tutorial. I made a custom weather dashboard buy I'm having issues displaying it on a separate 7" esp32 display. Ideas?

[@leanne5751]

This is just what I was looking for, thanks so much for making this video.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

No problem! Working on part 2 now!

[@briak]

Hi. Your video is great. Thanks! I looking for the solution for iphone locator mirroring.. do you have suggest for?

[@5thpixel]

HA newbie although i've been a home automation addict for years. great vid! thanks! instant sub!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! Working on part 2 now!

[@forster164]

Great video, I'm trying to set up my own dashboard at the moment. I was really hoping you would cover the sidebar card, I'm struggling to set that up at the moment

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! I've never used that one, but I'll check it out. I do plan to do another video covering some more of my favorite cards in the future. Sorry it wasn't on the list for this one!

[@Vuka2024]

First impressions of your site, "Are you in your cupboard?, your wife's cupboard? or just a random cupboard you found some where? LOL!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Haha I'm in our old laundry room - slowly I have converted it to an office

[@Vuka2024]

Yep, what I see it this, You are going to need either a new Laundry Room or an Office but not both, seeing that you are going to make millions off of KZbin, I will make my new "Office" right next to my Ferrari in that tripple bay garage I KNOW you are planning, and not that new Laundry or a new Gold watch for your Boss. You know the one that takes over from your Mother but can't cook that well and you have to give her compliments although Fido also refuse to eat her food. But I can help there, keep on lying, she loves compliments and she will reward you at least once a week and you get the added bonus of heading down to Burger King, and by stealth, start buying bits for the Office, when she finds out, it will be too late, you have already invested a lot of money into your Office and she will only withhold her reward for about a week them you are back in charge. @makeitworktech

[@craigp7173]

Great video. What desk light is over your right shoulder in the corner?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! That's the TreatLife Glow lamp. I put a link in the description! It is Tuya based, but it's not a "critical" device, so I'm not too worried about the cloud connectivity

[@bubbl_media]

The Swipe-One is amazing! Could u do a video how to exactly install and configure it? Thanks a lot for this video!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Check out my last livestream...I went over it a bit!

[@philrenda]

I'm interested to learn about how you made the layout above and below the badges at timestamp 13:31. Are they mushroom chips below the badges? How did you get the items to display above the badges? Thanks in advance for your guidance!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Sorry for the late reply... I covered this in a recent video. Check that out and feel free to pop onto our discord channel if you have further questions! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIGyqqamd9d2gMk&lc=UgwwhCai-Gd4fqu3_ed4AaABAg&ab_channel=MakeItWork

[@dipakpatel6307]

Thanks a lot for this video! Its a great insight and just what I was after

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@peterlustig7777]

what is the name of your theme that is used when you show your dahsboards. love the clean black design

[@MakeItWorkTech]

That's called "noctis" from HACS

[@turgayatabey]

harika bir kanalsın tebrik ederim. tek sorun, benim İngilizce bilmemem :) her ülkeye senin gibi bir vatandaş lazım :)

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Teşekkür ederim! Mesajınızı anlamak ve yanıt vermek için Google Translate kullanıyorum. Üzgünüm Türkçe konuşamıyorum!

[@expresscisco7880]

Hello from Versailles, France. Great explanations. Keep going. Themes could be interesting. Thank you!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Merci beaucoup! Much appreciated 🙏

[@kimbapslayer1995]

I like that we as programmers, can simply set up a server on a raspberry pi and hit a website we have hosted to display a dashboard. Just surround s screen with some fancy cage and good to go lol

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Yes!! The future is now!

[@Jeroen.Verschoor]

This is awesome! Trying to get the Family card working as shown on your dashboard: can you maybe share me the code and maybe inform about how you get this working?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

The coffee is on my github (linked in description). I also covered it somewhat in a livestream

[@paulushdk]

how did you create that fantastic background on the dashboard on the thumbnail?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

That's a custom iOS theme from HACS

[@rodrigomachado2995]

I can't find my Go to Start URL, can you help? After install Home Assistant and Kiosk on my fire 10 Gen11, the start URL I do not understand how or where I can find to copy and paste, or create one URL. I’m stuck on this part

[@scotthewitt6047]

Can you tell me how you made the lighting card under the person cards

[@robmiller3246]

will you please do a how to on making a custom person card?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

One of these days!!

[@marchoude2303]

Hi, love the tutorials. Can you tell me what entity you used to show whether you or your wife are home? I was thinking of a cell phone entity that connects to my home wife as an indicator haven't managed to make that work yet.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! I used a device_tracker entity, that comes from my phone. Since my phone has the HA app on it, it is added to HA as a device_tracker, so when my phone or my wife's phone is in the "home" zone set up in HA, then it shows us at home. i have a zone for work as well

[@MartyW74]

hI, how did you do the family card with the icons of the people, also how did you do the alexa announcement cards and the mail notification

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I put some information about that in my livestream here: kzbin.infoR0_eQt158bs?feature=share

[@wittchow]

Can you show me how you make your announcement buttons? I have google minis.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

The code is in my GitHub linked in the description

[@redradoa]

Thank you, very interesting. Subscribed!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Glad you find it so!

[@jellyjenn12291]

yes I'm interested in learning more about Themes so I would love for you to make a video on them. I am tempted to switch over to Home assistant from Smartthings and Hubitat if I can make a nice looking dashboard without needs to know too much programming

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I'll add it to my list! There are tons of custom themes in the HA Community Store that you can download, and modify if you don't like exactly how they look. Once you switch, you'll never go back!

[@JOHNBOSWELLCARPER]

How do you get your persons view to show like yours? do you have the code for it please, also how do you get the announcements to work and what card is used to create that, thanks

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Yup, it's all on my GitHub! Link in description

[@randallbrobsonpe8300]

Hey man - great video. Would you be willing to share the full YAML code for the home / away and phone battery status card with your avatars? Love the way this came out but i am having a hard time re-creating it. I can get 75% of the way there with the pieces you flash up in video.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! Yeah it's all in my GitHub, linked in the description! Let me know if you can't find it!

[@DanielMentz_]

great video, love the dashboard, giving me ideas. What door and motion sensor would you say is the best, I am tired of Samsung as it eats a lot of batteries and too many false alarms

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! I made a video comparison of a bunch a while ago, so you could check that out... kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3aTgmp5l5mWa9E One issue with Aqara is that not ever ZigBee repeater will work with Aqara devices, so you gotta watch that

[@DanielMentz_]

@@MakeItWorkTech Thank you, appreciate the feedback

[@mne36]

Loved the video! how did you get the bitmoji card on there?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! I actually just created a bitmoji and saved in as an image, then put it onto the card. You can see my YAML on my github

[@lebenvicknesvaran3192]

Hey would there be any chance you can do a video on how to create the clock card you have on your dashboard

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I'll include that in Dashboard for Beginners Part 2 which I'm working on!

[@lebenvicknesvaran3192]

@@MakeItWorkTech Thank you!!!

[@miclemattiol5703]

I died every time you named YAML a programming language

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I'll send an ambulance

[@oscarpederzolli1280]

nice work... how did you create the avatars? with what program? Thank you

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! I used Bitmoji

[@oscarpederzolli1280]

@@MakeItWorkTech thanks

[@islandsnow]

How do you get the date and time to display on your dashboard? What card did you use and I assume you need a custom yams code?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I used the custom digital clock card from HACS

[@xatazch]

Can you share your dashboard yaml file so that i can have a look hos you set it up? it looks great :)

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! Yeah, it's in my GitHub...link in description!

[@bertthys9714]

How does Home Assistent work? Do you need to have a device on all the time to log data? I want to install some Shelly's to log my power/solar usage.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

You need a device that runs the Home Assistant software, and that has to be running all the time. Shelly cloud may record it for you so you don't need to use Home Assistant, but I'm not sure. I have a video on how to set up HA on a raspberry pi if you want to learn more

[@bertthys9714]

@@MakeItWorkTech Thx I'll take a look. Shelly's have a 365 day memory on them and is saved to the cloud.

[@ZanaduRanch]

There are 3 Swipe navigations nowadays. One is a fork of maykar's that you mention here.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Is it better? May be time to switch

[@Zignito]

Great information. May be you can a video where you can utilise old phones as smart display per room. Ie kitchen , living room can just have a old smart phone attached to a wall and only shows devices in that particular room. Now a day can buy cheap second hand phone and tablets. Also lots of people have old phones which are good enough as display.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

hmmm that's a good thought! I'll consider it!

[@jamesblake310]

great video. When I create a new dashboard, there is no "URL" box present. Any ideas?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Hmmm, That's weird, mine still shows the URL box when I create a new one

[@mikeq2416]

Love your videos! I have created my tablet dashboard but the fonts only display in the app or browser NOT in fully kiosk on Samsung tablet. I can style the font but the font itself doesn’t change. Thoughts?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Hmmm, I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Are you saying that the changes you make don't show up in FK? What do you mean by "font"?

[@mikeq2416]

Yes, my fonts show up on iOS and browser but not in FK. The font styling does show up like size, weight etc

[@JayR_aus]

How did you do the big Time and Date display in the middle of the dashboard towards the end????!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

That's the digital clock custom card from HACS

[@alex_ortiz]

Great video! I got a few ideas for my own dashboards from this!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Awesome! Good to hear!

[@AnthonyReviews-uc5ip]

What card are you using where you have your face and your wife's face??? That's pretty cool!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! Just made a whole video about it!

[@jannikluyten8030]

What's that lamp in the background? :-)

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Link in description!

[@janewahu1715]

Nice one ... I get it better now 👍

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Glad it helped

[@akhan999]

would love to know more about the family card please but can't find any info on it

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Link to my github in description!

[@akhan999]

Yes thanks found it that night and got it

[@danielaguilarbenitez1076]

do you have a video how to explain to create a person card thanks.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I did a livestream about it

[@sebastianw.7947]

great video, thanks for that one! Still waiting for the Alexa Announcement video ;) Would love to address groups if possible. 😄

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! I'll cover some of that in tomorrow's livestream! I'll have to try and figure out groups too

[@BomarJr]

Great video! Anyone happen to have issues with card-mod-3 and the style not working for whatever reason?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Yeah the style syntax has changed. I haven't updated mine yet

[@BTC100KA]

would you be willing to share your dashboard YAML? would really help me see how you laid it out. I'm trying to do a horizontal stack card with 3 vertical stack card to achieve what you did but I think im making it too complicated.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

It is on my GitHub linked in description

[@BTC100KA]

@@MakeItWorkTech Thanks, did you say you were able to figure out how to wake the amazon fire on motion from its cameras?

[@kwakueffa]

Man, you are good! i just subscribed!

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Wow, thanks!!

[@lewisward2029]

great video thank you - its inspired me to learn home assistant. what app did you create the people cartoons with ?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! I used Bitmoji - the website

[@jaygreentree4394]

Yaml is pretty easy once you get used to it. Just remember when its appropriate to use spaces and tabs.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

That's the biggest thing!

[@EsotericArctos]

This is a great video, but one thing I will advise to anyone is do not use projects that are abandoned or archived and not getting updates. It may work at the moment, and you may take hours building a dashboard and then have the next HA release have a breaking change that makes that project stop working and as it's not getting updates you will be back to square one. Always try to use as many official integrations as possible, and if you need to use a custom card, make sure you use one that is actively maintained.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Good point! Unfortunately with open source projects its hard to guarantee that anything won't be dropped. The swipe card was actively maintained when I first started using it, then archived, then back to maintained. Hard to keep up!

[@holgerschwenk6416]

Hi, nice Video thanks for that. I found you yaml Code from your Dashboards in github. Is there somewhere a picture for each code? Thanks

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks! No, you have to supply the video. Use Bitmoji images

[@comet4242]

do you have a video of making this dashboard with the swip cards.. i installed it least some swipe plugins the examples dont work... anyway you could have the yaml code to copy and paste and so i can alter my own.. or step by step how to do the swiping cards.. as id like to incorrporate this in mine

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Yaml is in my GitHub (in description). My latest livestream covers how to set up the swipe card

[@daniel_thorson]

Great video! Just subscribed.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Thanks!!

[@timothyfeilinger6806]

Hey Aaron, Are you having issues with your Custom Announcements? Mine were working great, but all of a sudden the text message line has disappeared.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Hmmm, not sure what could be happening there. Hop on our discord and ask there if you want!

[@timothyfeilinger6806]

It was an update that caused the issue. Rolled back to a back up and fixed issue until new update was pushed out.fff

[@alessandro0811]

it is possible to have the "family" card script of your dashboard. it's too beautiful, I like it a lot

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Absolutely! My github is linked in the description!

[@bat3332]

Thank you for the video Dashboards on HA are most under covered in youtube videos

[@MakeItWorkTech]

No problem!

[@B0tinh0]

very nice video Can you make a video explaining those icons with you and your wife?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Already did!

[@B0tinh0]

@@MakeItWorkTech I'll look for it then

[@scottibyte]

I am a Hubitat user and I do have a Home Assistant instance. The one reason why I have avoided Home Assistant Dashboards is that I have not found a way to use something like Fully Kiosk or a Cast All the Things (CATT) server to display a dashboard on a remote tablet or Chromecast device on demand. The problem seems to be that I have found no way to "push" a dashboard remotely because it requires login credentials to display it. My use case is that with Hubitat I turn on a switch through a voice routine that triggers a routine to push the dashboard to a remote device. In Hubitat, there is an API string included in the URL that displays the dashboard very easily. The other issue is that it seems there is no way to display "JUST" the dashboard without the side panel and that is also something easy to do in Hubitat as well. Can you point me to any solutions to how to achieve these things?

[@akhan999]

your stack in cards now broken? so there's grid now in between each card?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Yeah, there a PR in for it on the repo. Should be fixed soon I hope

[@akhan999]

@@MakeItWorkTech Yeah i saw not sure why it's not merged yet. However the vertical stack in card is merged so update is available. i switched the Family panel to vertical stack in card which is fine now

[@mwright154]

Can you share your button card code?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I made a video on how I built it! It's on my GitHub

[@liorangel7511]

How can I set a bunch of lights under a button? Let's say I have 3 lights in the living room how do I put them under "Living room" button

[@patrykbuczynski7533]

Hi! Is there any possibility to lock acces to some features of HA? I wants to hang my HA screen on wall, but i don't want my kids to mess around with settings. What can i do?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Use a Kiosk mode integration and have a separate login for the kids

[@VorpalForceField]

Excellent Content .. Thank You for sharing .. Cheers :)

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Glad it helped!

[@groto27]

Any chance you could make a video how you have your backgrounds change color and the LEDs change to match? That is pretty cool

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Might be able to!!

[@markknight2768]

Not finding "card mod" in HACS? Has it been removed?

[@markknight2768]

Got it figured out. Your video is showing the old style of HACS. Had to turn of experimental features: Go to Settings / Devices & Services / Integrations click on the HACS integration ‘Configure’ button and uncheck ’ Enable experimental features’

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Has HACS changed a lot since this video? I haven't been paying much attention to it. Glad you got it!

[@markknight2768]

@@MakeItWorkTech apparently! Lots of folks new to HA (Like me) are having problems following KZbin vids about HA as HAos and HACS have changed over the past 1-2 years 😞But please keep up the great work as your vids still provide some valuable info.

[@Calzune]

how do you create the profile pictures like that?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Use bitmoji.com

[@hristohristov5246]

Thank you🙂👋

[@MakeItWorkTech]

You're most welcome!

[@ryandement1917]

How did you change the size of the custom digital clock card in the middle?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I used card-mod to change the height

[@cyberhek]

@@MakeItWorkTech Can you share the code to do this?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Link to my GitHub in description!

[@cyberhek]

@@MakeItWorkTech Got it. Thanks

[@Agentti_Kowalski]

can i get the full code for the bitmoji card example please?

[@MakeItWorkTech]

sure, it's in my github (linked in description). I actually updated it a bit, made a separate video on it recently.

[@davidb1776]

could you please show code for person car, or how you made it.

[@MakeItWorkTech]

It's all on my GitHub linked in description

[@infernoerrooke]

How did you get the Bitmoji Icons

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I made them at bitmoji.com, saved them, and then added them to the card

[@infernoerrooke]

@@MakeItWorkTech Yeah I am having issues getting the b utton card to work. I have it installed up it is not showing up when I try to add one

[@MakeItWorkTech]

Try clearing cache on your browser?

[@infernoerrooke]

@@MakeItWorkTech Oh I didnt think to do that! I will try. TY

[@0saurabhit]

Hi , thanks a lot for great video, got motivated after long time to finish my HA Project. Could you please also guide me or create a video for alexa announcement setup? Thanks, Saurabh

[@MakeItWorkTech]

I don't have plans for that right now, but if you check out my github you'll see my yaml, and you can watch Mark Watt Tech's Alexa series if you want to see how to connect Alexa to HA.