Home Assistant Configuration

Home Assistant Container (Docker) on a NAS (Synology DiskStation DS918+). My use case is a wall mounted tablet (Galaxy Tab A 10.1) using Fully Kiosk Browser, and on desktop using homeassistant-desktop. My configuration is exposed to HomeKit with Apple Tv acting as a hub for remote connection. I also support Nabu Casa.

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August 2021

Changed sidebar to a vertical-stack, easier to add various cards
markdown → custom:button-card, faster and easier to style
Theme now only applies to dashboard and not other sections
Optimization of styles and cross-browser compatibility
Workaround for known issues:
- ~~card-mod randomly not applying markdown styling on 2021.6.0 #130~~
  markdown → custom:button-card
  ui-lovelace#L52, themes#L123, button_card_templates#L137
- ~~swipe-card not updating size unless resizing window #32 #147~~
  horizontal-stack and margin: 0
  ui-lovelace#L284, themes#L110, button_card_templates#L769

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June 2021

While picture elements is still a valid card for layouts that doesn't follow a specific grid, this dashboard does. Instead of placing button cards using coordinates, it's now placed onto a grid that is responsive.

Layout custom:layout-card

CSS grid everything and as a bonus...
Mobile and portrait dashboards

responsive_demo.mp4

Buttons custom:button-card

Loader template doesn't need any input_boolean helpers anymore
Icons will only animate on state change to prevent all icons animating on dashboard refresh
Some entity checks for undefined entities, no errors on restarts
Added a bounce effect to the button when pressed

Theme custom:card-mod

Reworked themes with focus on performance
Wrote a tool to help with styling card-mod-helper

Deprecated If you're looking for picture elements, browse this repository before March 2021 https://github.com/matt8707/hass-config/tree/c9dd19e04bd4fde2322e610a42f4e246b58ee19a

Includes Since this configuration is split into several yaml files, I'm using lovelace-gulp-watch, which auto updates lovelace if an included file is changed.

Features

A different take on designing a Lovelace UI using custom:layout-card
Achieving a less cluttered interface by displaying more information on a long press
Loading wheel for slow responding entities such as booting a computer.
Adding sounds to the UI using automations listening for events
CSS Animations based on state

The sidebar

Time and date with greeting based on time of day
Lights and switches that are on, using natural language
Temperature with emoji based on weather conditions
Important calendar information
Other conditional alerts

Sidebar footer

The three icons at the bottom in order:

Card to control robot vacuum
Monitor Home Assistant, tablet and Network Attached Storage
Lists available HACS updates and release notes for Home Assistant

Media

Conditionally displaying media player controls based on last active device such as Apple TV, Spotify, Google Nest Mini. If nothing is active for 15 minutes then a poster of last downloaded movie/episode is shown (Radarr/Sonarr). Swipe to reveal other than last active media players.

Lights and sensors

All Philips Hue lights with sensors in hallway, bathroom and walk-in closet.

Switches

SwitchBot to cold boot computer with a raspberry as a hub. Numerous shell commands to monitor and control macOS
Belkin WeMo Switch to control studio monitors (speakers) with automations to apply EQ calibration and volume control through AppleScript
Control a pedestal fan, using Belkin WeMo Switch and hue motion sensor temperature data to automate on summer nights
Broadlink to control fan and air purifier with IR and Gosund Smart Wi-Fi Plug for power/state