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

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What's up Smart Homers! I hope you enjoy this video - it's the second one in my ‪@home_assistant‬ Basics series. I'm hoping that this one helps you decide to use #HomeAssistant and get started with #dashboards! This open-source software will change your definition of #smarthome! Thanks for watching!
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00:38 Dashboard Basics
02:00 Creating a new dashboard
03:38 Views
05:03 Cards
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08:17 Next-Level Dashboarding
10:33 My favorite custom cards and how I use them!
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@makeitworktech 10 ай бұрын

Part 2 is out! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLZ_rNahp9ineps.html

@harrier1231 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@toddkaminski1858 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! I enjoy communicating the basics!

@conecomputersuk Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Thanks man!!

@AcquahEmmanuelBaiden Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad it helped!

@Amamialoo 4 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 4 ай бұрын

Awesome, glad it helped!

@Technocucej 24 күн бұрын

and now tell us how it went ? :D

@guym6093 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad it helped!!

@TimelessPublicClassics Жыл бұрын

great video man. I just finished getting HA all set up and am loving it. this helped a lot.

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad it helped!

@user-sf4wf2gj9h 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@MarkGhali Жыл бұрын

Love your chill vibe! Great videos!

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark! Thanks for being a subscriber!

@leanne5751 10 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 10 ай бұрын

No problem! Working on part 2 now!

@Scribbby Жыл бұрын

Perfect timing to get into Home Assistant.

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Enjoy!

@Joseph-ko2kl Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech I will be in attendance then! LOL

@scotthewitt6047 10 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 10 ай бұрын

kzfaq.infoR0_eQt158bs?feature=share

@manukalias Күн бұрын

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 🙏🙏

@forster164 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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!

@clairerovic Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@SBinVancouver 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

Yup! I covered that in my latest video. Excellent addition, but still not drag n drop 😂 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLZ_rNahp9ineps.html

@keepitdialed Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@alex_ortiz Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Good to hear!

@d_sellers1 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@d_sellers1 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@crearelectronica Жыл бұрын

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

@craigw4644 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@dipakpatel6307 5 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@expresscisco7880 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Merci beaucoup! Much appreciated 🙏

@5thpixel 10 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Working on part 2 now!

@kwakueffa 8 ай бұрын

Man, you are good! i just subscribed!

@makeitworktech 8 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!!

@bubbl_media Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@janewahu1715 3 ай бұрын

Nice one ... I get it better now 👍

@makeitworktech 3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

@fredzibulski3111 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech cool i will look for the video

@pyrotenax472 Жыл бұрын

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

@taavi262 Жыл бұрын

Great video (your other videos are also super)! Is it possible to add family calendar as well? And switch between home controls and calendar view automatically?

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That sounds possible, really depends on how you bring in the calendar (gcal or whatever) and what you mean by switching automatically

@taavi262 Жыл бұрын

I think there is wallpaper solution and you can put a link. It seems to be most simple way. But you can't use screen off setting in case of wallpaper... ?

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Hmmm, I'm not sure!

@scotthewitt6047 10 ай бұрын

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

@santiagoallande4780 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@daniel_thorson Жыл бұрын

Great video! Just subscribed.

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@kimbapslayer1995 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Yes!! The future is now!

@jellyjenn12291 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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!

@philrenda 10 ай бұрын

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 7 ай бұрын

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! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLZ_rNahp9ineps.html&lc=UgwwhCai-Gd4fqu3_ed4AaABAg&ab_channel=MakeItWork

@randallbrobsonpe8300 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@mne36 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@claytonium13 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

That's the digital clock card from HACS

@rodrigomachado2995 8 ай бұрын

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

@VorpalForceField 5 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@craigp7173 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@sophiazar4008 Жыл бұрын

Hi Aaron, hope you can help me, I am new to HA, and I am using an Asustor server to run HA. The problem I am having is I need to use Yaml to make some devices work/recognize, but my HA does not have the add-on feature in settings. I think the version I am running is not supervisor (I think). is there any way around this? any help or suggestions would be amazing. thank you.

@peterlustig7777 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

That's called "noctis" from HACS

@alessandro0811 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! My github is linked in the description!

@akhan999 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all your help I’ve finally finished my new dashboard for the house. Family friendly now. As well as having all 4 family member devices with Bitmoji I created another card to “find my device” for each iOS device as my wife often loses her phone at home. I created another card as an SOS with a twilio integration so boys can just press the button which calls our phones with a pre recorded message to call them. And another for panic alarm just incase which sets of ring sirens and also sends text to our phones. (Work in progess) Thanks for your code and pointers wish I could share pics on here

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Awesome! If you want, join my discord and you can share your projects on there! I'd love to see it

@groto27 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Might be able to!!

@scottibyte 5 ай бұрын

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?

@lewisward2029 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I used Bitmoji - the website

@BomarJr 4 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 4 ай бұрын

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

@JeroenAlmere2 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@paulushdk Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

That's a custom iOS theme from HACS

@bat3332 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

No problem!

@dano7448 Жыл бұрын

Yea I love the way you have your Family Card setup, I have attempted to duplicate it but My "Battery" and "Location" custom fields do not show up. I have to either have my syntax wrong or i'm missing something somewhere. Any insight would be awesome! Keep up the content! EDIT: Found the same Reddit post you did. Even found your post on it. I am Good to go!

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Awesome!! Sorry I took so long to respond!

@dano7448 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech Not to worry! I do not expect you to sit in front of your machine and respond to everyone right away! We all have lives! Appreciate you!

@johnhowell08 Жыл бұрын

May I ask for the Reddit post I am trying to do the same thing cannot find post

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

@@johnhowell08 link to my GitHub in the description if that helps

@JOHNBOSWELLCARPER Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@sebastianw.7947 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@turgayatabey 11 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 11 ай бұрын

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

@dk-uj4yd 5 ай бұрын

i think this is very informative if you understand code and things like that. i am brand new and have no clue how to do this, wish there was someone to help me.

@hristohristov5246 Жыл бұрын

Thank you🙂👋

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

You're most welcome!

@marchoude2303 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@DanielMentz_ 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! I made a video comparison of a bunch a while ago, so you could check that out... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o6tghJp0x5rHZaM.html One issue with Aqara is that not ever ZigBee repeater will work with Aqara devices, so you gotta watch that

@DanielMentz_ 11 ай бұрын

@@makeitworktech Thank you, appreciate the feedback

@MartyW74 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@comet4242 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@JayR_aus Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

That's the digital clock custom card from HACS

@patrykbuczynski7533 5 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@geirvalsvik1780 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this great video!! I followed the instructions to install HACS and download some of the Custums cards you recommend in this video. So far so good. They get installed OK, and I can find them under HACS/Frontend. I'm running : Home Assistant 2022.9.7 Supervisor 2022.09.1 Operating System 9.0 Frontend 20220907.2 - latest However, when I go to my dashboard and want to add one of those cards I installed, they are not listed as Custom Cards. I have rebooted Home assistant after downloading the custom cards. Could you say why I do not see them in the Add new Card window? I'm specifically trying to ge the Stack in Card at my Dashboard. Do I need to add it manually, and if so, how is that done? Thanks :)

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm glad you got that far! Those custom cards will not show up for setup in the UI. You need to add them via YAML. If you want to see examples, my github is linked in the description and it's full of "stack-in-card" examples! If you have more questions, feel free to jump on my discord linked in the description!

@geirvalsvik1780 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech Thanks for the answer. I have downloaded your github examples on stack-in-card, and will test out similar based on your yaml code. All the best :)

@akhan999 Жыл бұрын

Hey so I used your dashboard as a template on Amazon fire Hd 10 every time it loads vertically with all cards along middle. I have to then refresh for it to show proper layout. Does this happen for you also?

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this happens occasionally, but only with my kitchen tablet (the one with the "person" cards). I haven't figured out why yet

@islandsnow 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

I used the custom digital clock card from HACS

@holgerschwenk6416 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@0saurabhit Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@bertthys9714 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@wittchow Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

The code is in my GitHub linked in the description

@EsotericArctos 5 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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!

@oscarpederzolli1280 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I used Bitmoji

@oscarpederzolli1280 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech thanks

@andybird8515 Жыл бұрын

how did you get sensors for your computer like temp, cpu usage etc, was this an add on? I cant seem to find mine

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

I use HassAgent. It's super cool. You can also use IoT Link, which requires an MQTT broker

@xatazch Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@BTC100KA 23 күн бұрын

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 23 күн бұрын

It is on my GitHub linked in description

@BTC100KA 16 күн бұрын

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

@robmiller3246 6 ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech 3 ай бұрын

One of these days!!

@lebenvicknesvaran3192 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@lebenvicknesvaran3192 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech Thank you!!!

@akhan999 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Link to my github in description!

@akhan999 Жыл бұрын

Yes thanks found it that night and got it

@danielaguilarbenitez1076 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

I did a livestream about it

@AnthonyReviews-uc5ip Ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Ай бұрын

Thanks! Just made a whole video about it!

@scotthewitt6047 11 ай бұрын

On your Tablet view you have a button for lunch time what does that do

@makeitworktech 11 ай бұрын

It announces that it's lunch time on the appropriate speakers so that my kids know to come upstairs

@bryonhulcher851 Жыл бұрын

ive tried getting the community store but have had nothing but setbacks. I first tried to download the hacs zip from github. I cant get into the local home assistant config file through file explorer unfortunately. When trying to go through File Editor in HA... It would let me create a new folder.. but wouldnt let me drag and drop the collection from the zip. The only option is to add every little file one by one.. not even a Ctrl A option to select all . Then i tried the terminal method ... says invalid file name or directory every time. I am at a complete loss.

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

You followed these instructions? hacs.xyz/

@bryonhulcher851 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech strange.. it worked this time

@sidneyking11 Жыл бұрын

How to setup tuya cloud to work with treatlife devices?

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

TreatLife devices are Tuya based, so you just add them to the app. You can use Local Tuya in Home Assistant if you want them to work directly with Home Assistant without having to rely on cloud connectivity.

@ryandement1917 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

I used card-mod to change the height

@cyberhek Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

Link to my GitHub in description!

@cyberhek Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech Got it. Thanks

@VELVET462 3 ай бұрын

im pretty new in this for real.. is it possible to link all my hue zigbee stuff to use it via home assistant?

@makeitworktech Ай бұрын

Yeah

@VELVET462 Ай бұрын

@@makeitworktech thanks!

@stouttaaddis989 4 ай бұрын

How do you install "Home Assistant" in the first place? Thanks.

@makeitworktech 4 ай бұрын

Check out my video on Home Assistant for Beginners... First this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/edByipVjltjSpY0.htmlsi=XhedRjMlKO3CI7cp Then this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbB1qtWEuKzJaac.htmlsi=yWnqA601r_fBL4_y

@stouttaaddis989 4 ай бұрын

Thank you@@makeitworktech

@jannikluyten8030 Ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Ай бұрын

Link in description!

@timothyfeilinger6806 7 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@timothyfeilinger6806 Ай бұрын

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

@Hans-gj3vk Жыл бұрын

Great video. Thank you very much for the effort/time 🙂

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Hope it helped!

@Hans-gj3vk Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech Definitely! :-)

@josefss4801 Жыл бұрын

I am looking for that Network Chuck comment 😂

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

I don't get it, but I'm sure I should haha

@Calzune 2 ай бұрын

how do you create the profile pictures like that?

@makeitworktech 2 ай бұрын

Use bitmoji.com

@AliB333 Жыл бұрын

Do you have a tutorial on your person cards?

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

No, but I do plan on making one!

@AliB333 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech Thank you! I'll be watching for it. I'm new to this and I tried to find a guide or video on how to make them and have come up blank. Not sure if I'm using the wrong terminology for them or what.

@user-mr5pu8zg2m 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@user-mr5pu8zg2m 9 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq, 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

@davidb1776 Ай бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Ай бұрын

It's all on my GitHub linked in description

@akhan999 Жыл бұрын

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

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

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

@akhan999 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@markknight2768 6 ай бұрын

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

@markknight2768 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@markknight2768 6 ай бұрын

@@makeitworktech apparently! Lots of folks new to HA (Like me) are having problems following KZfaq 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.

@1cavemanart494 Жыл бұрын

What's the app call for iPad?

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

What app?

@MariuszSnioncyNoname 2 ай бұрын

card-mod not working for me. Maybe little help

@makeitworktech 2 ай бұрын

There's a new syntax you need to follow

@dennisvandennoort3088 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to get(buy) your dashboard?

@makeitworktech Жыл бұрын

It's all on my GitHub (linked in description)!

@dennisvandennoort3088 Жыл бұрын

@@makeitworktech Hi, sorry, iam new in Home assistant, can you maybee explain with text how to get your dashboard with hacs? sorry for the stuppid quistion.