The Ultimate Guide to Personalized Dashboards in Home Assistant

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

How do you create user-specific dashboards? What's your best practice? Let me know in the comments! 👇

[@bat3332]

a man led by mission of fixing up the black hole of dashboard for people like me with simple skills. please continue ur mission and make ha dashboard more accessible to the simple lot like us

[@EsotericArctos]

Perfect timing for this video as I am just abotu to revamp my dashboards. For time and date, I ended up adding the sensor: -platform: time_date and exposing the time and date through the sensors and adding the custom digital clock card from HACS. The wonderful thing about Home Assistant is that there can be a lot of different ways of achieving the same thing and none of them are wrong :) Thank you again for a wonderful tutorial!

[@PauloAbreu]

One year later and this is still useful! Thanks!

[@gerryf7015]

Well worth the extra day! Nice job Ed. Love this series and hopefully more to come. I'm about to disappear down this rabbit hole in a couple of weeks.

[@sevagjb]

the master of Dashboard 😎

[@DJH27673]

This was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

[@PeterCarlsson-k7n]

Great video, thank you Ed. I would love a tutorial on Alarmo.

[@onnodekker6799]

Thanks Ed! This was again an awesome video, very helpful.

[@vidarg75]

Add bloopers in every video going forward, please.

[@petercook4350]

Thanks Ed. Excellent video as ever

[@marcelstubbe69]

Geweldig, ik was al een poos opzoek naar deze functie! TOP!!!!

[@tomjones2860]

Not sure if you are open to automation ideas, via KZbin comment... But... One that I would love to see is to make radiant floor systems more efficient. Not sure about Europe, but Thermal Floors (hot water radiant floor heating) are common in North America in many homes build since the late 90's. They are awesome, nothing beats a nice warm floor when you walk on it in socks or bare feet first thing in the morning. The challenge is that they tend to hold a LOT of thermal energy and often over shoot the thermostat. This overshoot varies depending on the outside temperature as the house will bleed off heat fast the colder it is outside. I would love to see you develop an app, that uses the current or expected outside temperature to adjust then the thermostat switches to its "leave for work" "coast" cycle. This could also be adjusted based on expected cloud cover since sunny days will reduce the heat loss too.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Hi Tom! Thanks for this. I do not have a radiant floor system myself, so I think it will be difficult for me to set something up for that.

[@arktech9975]

Hey Ed I love watching your videos but I am running into a little problem with this one, I am using a minimalist dashboard like the one ESH is using and I am trying to use the state-switch card to only show relevant devices to each user but every time I do it I get a "No card type configured" error in the view in a big red block. Do you know what the problem could be?

[@nicsarahnicol9742]

another great vid, cheers Ed!! I'm still a bit concerned that it could be hacked if someone tried guessing the URL, which, let's face it, are always pretty obvious! I'm going to play with a combo of this and kiosk mode. I see when a card is not shown to a user, nothing fills it's space on the dashboard, so all subsequent buttons loose their alignment I'm thinking maybe add a conditional card or similar in the same space. Would that hold the grid structure? Condition - if it's not user "ed", show picture card and have a little jpeg with a screenshot of the original button with 'access denied' photoshopped on top, or whatever suits your aesthetics...

[@EsotericArctos]

You can create separate dashboards where the complete dashboard is unique per user, which is obviously more work to maintain. If you use a dashboard that is in KIOSK mode, you can't enter a URL directly, so the only way it could be hacked is if people know how to login to your Home Assistant via a browser without kiosk mode, which obviously could be done, but it would be someone within your own network. Conditional cards are definitely an option if you feel your family or others with access to your home network may want to hack Home Assistant dashboards :) As this is only really within your local network, anyone doing the hacking, would need access to your Home Assistant instance, so that would only be local users. So your hacker would only be your child, or partner, depending on what restrictions you place. A user still would not have admin access to HA unless they were set as an admin, so it is really only seeing devices in a different room to turn on and off. Would someone within your household want to hack to get access to other rooms? I am not sure of your setup, but if you have your devices exposed to a voice assistant, the devices can still be accessed via that anyway, regardless of who is issuing the commands. I think the main thing here is to provide a less cluttered dashboard so it is easier for a person to use the dashboard, rather than making a totally secure setup

[@garyosler4818]

Hi Ed Great videos and really useful Do you know if a way to change to a default dashboard after a period of inactivity? ie show date time and weather by default , then if I go to Lounge view to control something after say 2 minutes idle it will change back to date, time, weather? Thanks in advance and looking forward to the next vid!👍

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Hmmm. Good question! I created this with HADashboard once, but I never thought of creating it in the "normal" dashboards. I will look into it.

[@garyosler4818]

@@SmartHomeJunkie awesome thanks Ed

[@pixelmagicindustries]

You make great video's, but the code behind a paywall, is that really needed ?

[@xatazch]

Thx this was great. :)

[@MaSi84]

Switch for user name cause problem - when changing visibility we have another place to sync changes. Better way would be check if view has defined user list and user name in array or if user list not defined at all.

[@petersu2441]

very great video - i want also make a login for my friend and i want ask you if there is a possibility to hide the energy dashboard in the sidebar so he can only see his own dashboard what i made for him and nothing in sidebar? 👍

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Yes, you can watch this video for that: Kiosk Mode in Home Assistant - How To - The Right Way! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWTPhWewnM94iJo

[@gnospanker]

Great video Ed! Is the code on the site yet? It doesn't seem to be there for me.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Yes, the link is in the description, but it's this link: ko-fi.com/s/63cb0b4113

[@Sebastian-wj2pm]

Hi Ed, Great video but when you added code to show temperature under living room icon where is the data comming from ? Because I can't see where I can select device for temperature. It would be great if whole configuration is shown at the and in YAML code. Thanks

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You can fielded the code using the link in the description.

[@Sebastian-wj2pm]

@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for clarifying this. I thought that I can buy one one code

[@kankadev]

But does the user have access to everything maybe using an API if I create a user specific dashboard? I just created a user and was shocked because he saw EVERYTHING in my default dashboard.

[@mohamudhussin7188]

Great video , but I have a question I need to make my custom own app using home assistant, is that something possible?

[@jamiefl]

Is there a template that will be true if the user is an admin, or do I have to add each admin user as you did in the vid. I ask because I am not the only admin, and occasionally one of the other admin will leave and a new one added. Changing each template each time this happens will be tedious, but if there is a template to check whether a user is an admin, then this change will be a simple flick of a few switches and all state-switch cards will respond accordingly.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You can also see if someone is an admin or not.

[@SandeepSandhu]

Is there any mechanism that we can measure AC voltage level, in my flat the voltage fluctuations are common and the AC stops working and gives 88 error which is during high or low voltages. Please make a video if feasible. Thanks

[@ptmoy1]

Ed, due to form factor differences, seems like you will still need one generic dashboard for each type of device (e.g., one dashboard for tablets and one for smartphones, etc.). How do you assign the appropriate dashboard when a user logs on? For example, if my son logs on using his iPhone, he should see the iPhone Dashboard. If he logs on from his MACBook, he should see a different dashboard.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

See this video om his to create a responsive dashboard: How To Create a RESPONSIVE Dashboard in Home Assistant kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3jXnXSJi99ppNk

[@ChiralSystemsLtd]

How do i set the default dashboard on a user basis, the user profile option is never saved?

[@gerryf7015]

Ed, is it possible to get to a single dasboard design for tablet and mobile AND then have those room or user specific? Looking to see if I can do one fundamentally consistent look and feel design.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Yes, it is. See this video to start with and then follow the instructions in the manual of the layout card to make it responsive: Take Back Control Of Your Home Assistant Dashboard! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5STY4OwipZqfbM

[@MisterFreddyX]

Hey :) When will the video come with the details of your dashboard?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

When it's finished 🤪 But seriously, my dashboard gets never finished.

[@MisterFreddyX]

@@SmartHomeJunkie 😥

[@AceBoy2099]

11:00 seems to have changed since filming this, how do I find this now?

[@Alex-np4hz]

Hi I have a problem with the sonoff zigbee temperature sensor. {{state_attr('sensor.0x00124b0025032c73_temperature','current_temperature') }}°C so it doesn't detect it

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You should probably show the state of that sensor and not the state attribute.

[@Alex-np4hz]

@@SmartHomeJunkie excuse my ignorance, I copied your strinca by changing the name of the sensor. what should i write in place of state_attr. thank you

[@nigelholland24]

failed at frist try i can create a dashboard but when i open it i get this error "Error loading the view strategy: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'toUpperCase') " any ideas please

[@deltvors6421]

I typed exactly the same and get I get missing syntax error missing end of comment tag or expected token error

[@deltvors6421]

is the code in the download ling exactly the same as the code on the screen in the video?

[@ashoktvm]

How to restrict users from accessing logbook and history etc?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

See the link in the description to the kiosk mode video.

[@AdamAdam-qt5kt]

how to affect some devices to some users ?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly, but I do not think it's possible to give users specific access to specific devices.

[@AdamAdam-qt5kt]

@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for your quick reply, for example i have 10 devices , i want that user 1 see 3 devices , user 2 see 4 others devices and user 3 see the last 3 devices.. is it possible to manage this on home assistant? the devices are DYI added using mqtt protocol

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@AdamAdam-qt5kt Ah! You can do this with the state-switch card. It will be a bit of a tedious job, but it's definately possible.

[@AdamAdam-qt5kt]

@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks a lot.. i will give it a try.. also do you know if the user can create a group of contact to send alert via email?

[@paulushdk]

the problem is that all users have access to ALL entities via the search function...

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Yeah true, but that's not the goal of this tutorial. People asked me to create tailor made dashboards for each individual in the house. Security is a whole different issue (which I mention in the video btw).

[@nicsarahnicol9742]

@@SmartHomeJunkie any plans to do a video from a security perspective?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@nicsarahnicol9742I will consider it! Thanks for the idea 👍🏻

[@EsotericArctos]

I think the main thing here is an uncluttered dashboard rather than security. Users would only be the ones you give access to Home Assistant anyway, so they are basically just your family or maybe a couple of friends you give add as users. Security is based on who you give access to. They don't have access to admin unless designated an admin. Would your family be interested in hacking home assistant dashboards?

[@deltvors6421]

@@EsotericArctos I hear you, but imagine is you will Im using home assistant to automate our building complex, 105 3 bedroom flats, home assistant runs our access gates, solar panels, borehole and filtration system, pool pumps and fire alarms. i need o be able to to restrict users who have the system for access control and gate cameras, but restrict them from accessing the rest