The first step is to create the grid of the dashboard. So make sure you have installed this in your HA installation. It’s easiest to install the plugins through HACS (Home Assistant Community Store). I will name them where necessary again, but make sure you have installed the following plugins: We are going to use different Home Assistant plugins. The layout and style of the dashboard are based on the design of Dejan Markovic. If you have any questions, just drop a comment below. I am going to take you step-by-step through the process of making the dashboard. The button can start a flow in Homey, so this way we can start flows in Homey through Home Assistant. These triggers can then be added as a button (device) in Homey, which is then available in HA as an entity. I have created trigger variables in Homey with the help of the app Better Logic (Homey app). This way all devices that I have in Homey are also available as entities in HA. I have linked Homey with Home Assistant through MQTT. But sometimes you want to switch lighting scenes, turning the lights a bit brighter when playing a board game for example, so this is where the tablet comes in. We only need to turn the lights off at night with a single press on the button. I don’t have created any automations or scripts because Homey does pretty much everything automatically. So that you can create them for your smart home devices. In this article, I will try to explain how buttons, functions, and layouts are created and how they interact. You really need to write your own configuration files for your environment. With HA you can’t simply copy and paste configurations from other users. But it is better to separate it more into separate files with larger configurations. Home Assistant is configured in Yaml files, I have written pretty much everything into the ui-lovelace.yaml file to keep things clear and easy to follow. My goal for this dashboard was to get insight into my smart home and allow my family members to easily change scenes in the house. I am not a Home Assistant expert, I have seen dashboards that have really advanced (and nice) features, but are also complicated to make. For the dashboard, it doesn’t matter if HA is your controller or Homey. Home Assistant is only used to display the interactive dashboard. It’s good to know that I am using Homey as my Smart Home controller. And in this article, we are going to create a Home Assistant Dashboard. In the second article, we divide into setting up Home Assistant and MQTT. In the first article, I explained how we can use and mount a FireHD tablet as a smart home dashboard. This is the 3 rd article in a mini-series about creating my Smart Home dashboard with Home Assistant. But to control them, or to get insight into your smart home, you probably want to great a Home Assistant Dashboard. Home Assistant is a really versatile smart home system that allows you to connect all your smart home devices.
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