I’m wondering what people here would think about Home Assistant’s stock UI getting a bit of a facelift? I know you can customize to your hearts content, but I’ve always found stock Home Assistant to be a little hard on the eyes. Its not bad in my mind, just feels a bit dated and static.
Anyhow, wondered if anyone here has thought the same. I’d welcome a face lift.
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I am using the stock UI only, and for several years now. I cannot complain.
Yes, you could say it looks a little dusty in the corners maybe, but no strong changes needed IMHO.
The constraints of only being able to make cards in predefined columns and positions is absolutely ridiculous. We should be able to drag-n-drop and resize to whatever size cards we want. It’s a huge PITA to make anything that doesn’t follow this incredibly restricted way of thinking.
That’s been added a while ago with a new layout type that is also the default when creating new views now
That seems to be incorrect, I just tried and it forces the use of their titles and badges spanning entire width and only at the top with, sections forced into columns underneath. There is no way to make a card span e.g. 2/3 of the width with the last 1/3 used by another card. I also can’t make a full width section below other sections, it forces columns that fixes to screen centre if it doesn’t fill the whole screen, I can’t even make it stay to the left or right of the screen.
Yeah I can drag cards between sections, but I cant control sizes or location of anything, its still locked in to their very limited idea of dash board layouts.
You can set the width and height in the properties of the cards themselves. It’s the last tab.
It still doesnt expand beyond the fixed width of the section column it’s created in. And a card cannot span multiple columns, it’s always locked to a single column. You also can’t control left/right position of columns, it only starts from centre if the page and expands from there.
You can change the width of sections but if that’s still not what you want, I don’t really get what you’re trying to do
Last versions have added many possibilities that you are talking about.
Keep in mind that the UI needs to adapt to a dynamically resizable window, and it’s very tricky if you just “freely” put thing wherever you want.
I haven’t been able to freely move cards, or easily expand beyond the defined column with newest version. It shouldn’t be a technical issue, it’s possible for many other applications to manage this flawlessly.
@ExcessShiv
I feel that you really are not happy with how those developers manage things.
Luckily it’s open source, so you are free to create the GUI exactly how you like it to be.I don’t have the skills to do that, which is why I support the foundation with money in stead. But you’re right, the unnecessarily restrictive UI is one of my biggest issues with HA.
You can always use the Home Assistant API to create your own UI experience. I create small HA touch panels using M5Stack Core2 devices this way.
This.
I dabbled too long around having it’s UI look prettier, but gave up after spending precious months. Now I can’t see a way to have it look like I want it to, and -with respect- that’s never the intention of devs to have it’s UI very customizable.
BUT having your own UI is pretty easy if you know basic JS and HTML; that’s intentional yet kinda hidden behind all the clutter of HA. So if CSS themes won’t do it for you, you can try your chance with that.
