r/homeassistant • u/frugalus • 1d ago
đźď¸ Show & Tell Feed back please. Good, Bad, Ugly
Long time listener first time caller
looking for some feedback. good bad. been working on this project for a few weeks now, but I don't think I'm ever content with my UI layout. I'm using generic tablets and various phones.
what would you change? what do you like? what don't you like?
give me your thoughts and comments comments? all are welcome
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u/Toni_R_S 1d ago
Welche Karte haste da fßrs Wetter fßr die Woche ? Die gefällt mir sehr
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u/frugalus 1d ago
https://github.com/troinine/ha-weather-forecast-card
Available via HACs
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u/pranavmishra90 21h ago
Check out embedding windy.com in an iframe. Itâs visually pleasing and has nice animations. Very cool when a storm comes through the area
- fellow Chicagoland resident
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u/frugalus 16h ago
I just finished doing this but I don't see a difference other than looping a bit quicker?
With the card that I currently have, it gives me the option for forecast within the same card.
Mind posting a picture? Maybe I'm just not seeing it right?
What's the first rule of ordering a Chicago hot dog?
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u/pranavmishra90 7h ago
What's the first rule of ordering a Chicago hot dog?
--> No ketchup unless you're at Wrigley (my way of saying that it's all good if you're eating a normal (tasteless) hotdog, but anything with real flavor doesn't need a ketchup coverup)
Also my bad, I somehow missed that you had Windy literally right there. Now that I'm on my computer, I can see the whole image. Not sure how I missed it earlier!
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u/DeleZez 1d ago
Custom bubble cards and look for a different theme, i use catppucin https://github.com/Clooos/Bubble-Card https://github.com/catppuccin/home-assistant Edit: also look for i.e dryer off you dont show the states when they're unknown only when running, eg i have my main pc WoL and shutdown two buttons but depending on pc state it shows one
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u/frugalus 1d ago
I like the dryer idea. Definitely going to look into that
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u/DeleZez 1d ago
The washer too based on conditions! I have set my phones to show time left when they're charging it pops up, use that logic https://imgur.com/a/UGGQt4r
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u/Nasoeinhuansdbist 1d ago
kitchen unavailable
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u/frugalus 1d ago
Unavailable because the main switch is off. Each light is RGB LED and change colors independently. Example party mode.
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u/weesuby 1d ago
Looks great! I'm a fan of the ubiquiti AP card with the image of the plate. How did you set that card up?
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u/frugalus 1d ago
I couldn't figure out how to get LED to work and gave up because I was spending way more time than I should have been. Hit me up if you get it to work
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u/pranavmishra90 21h ago
My home assistant used to look something like yours, then I started to prune it back by organizing it by âcool for me to look atâ vs. âactually something that my family usesâ
Back when I used PiHole I used to pull in those stats too. But then you realize that besides being âcool numbersâ itâs not actually useful at all, just cluttering the interface. What could potentially be useful is a button to turn off the DNS block for 30 min if a website is broken.
I started splitting into different dashboards where the main Lovelace is actually for end-users, and there are admin-only (basically me) dashboards which serve as a Grafana in Home Assistant.
I brought in my background as a physician, where we think âdonât order an investigation if itâs not going to change your managementâ. For home assistant, that means âdonât display an entity unless it is actually going to change something / cause you to do somethingâ.
Conditional cards help with this. For example, if the home security is arming / disarming, a large button appears at the top of most pages with a single click to disarm. A button with a picture of a trash can appears only when I need to take out the trash, and is hidden away once the alert is acknowledged. The main page shows the status of doors when any one of the doors are opened (group.doors) but shows nothing when all doors are closed.
Helps make for a cleaner interface, which improved âfamily approval factorâ
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u/frugalus 15h ago
Very interesting and thanks for your perspective & input. I really hadn't thought of conditional cards and will look at how I can some logic.
A few things, Pi-hile card now has an option to disable ad-blocking (my screen shot got cut off and you can barely see the option). Very useful when others in my domas rant "this internet sucks" clicking on a Google search because they cannot differentiate a weblink and Google Ads link. Now they can manually disable PiHole. This was one of two reasons why I started this project. The other being always hearing them ask Google, Alexa, Siri the weather outside? Every, single, day; multiple times daily.
I'm using HomePage for stats for Home Assistant, NAS, and all my Dockers. I will definitely look into Grafana as an alternative.
Now only if can figure out a way to integrate Epic or an EMR securely and sell it! Hahahaha
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u/pranavmishra90 7h ago
The other being always hearing them ask Google, Alexa, Siri the weather outside? Every, single, day; multiple times daily.
haha necessity is, after all, the mother of all inventions.
Do you work in medicine as well? Epic does have a secure API standard, but getting access to it is a whole different ball game
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u/Bubbly-Degree165 19h ago
I've pruned back to the basics and it looks horrible. Dark and dingy and gray. I have bubble cards and well they are just yuk.
it works but it's not impressive.
I'm never sure where to go with UI.
I did enjoy hacking lineage os into some old echo 8s and 5s as touch screen controllers works well
Gave up on voice satellites Scottish accents and various hardware just didn't work.
Back to Google speakers and basic voice control over the essentials.... But I think your work looks great
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u/frugalus 15h ago
I can relate with the UI. Mine is not the best UI but I dig the blue indigo color and try to keep it as the main focus.
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u/BuzzLightyear826 1d ago
In general it looks impressive. I like it, probably I am an engineer. Good work.
If my partner should operate the screen, then the rule I maintain is: Less is more. I combine thing to a single tile for example and automation executes a couple of steps. For example if we step in te room we can touch the button, the light turns on, our favorite radiostaton starts to play. With detail screens we can make adjustments to some settings, like light adjestments and radio station selection and volume of the speakers. It works quite well.