The Best Home Assistant Dashboards (for Beginners)
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📱 Perfect for Mobile Devices | Area-Based Dashboard Walkthrough
If you're following along with my Getting Started with Home Assistant series, you're likely at the point where you've got your setup running, devices integrated, and some automations in place. But let’s face it — the default dashboard just doesn’t cut it for everyday use. It’s cluttered, hard to navigate, and not exactly family-friendly.
In this video, I’ll walk you through how to build a beautiful, functional, and mobile-friendly Home Assistant dashboard using the new experimental area-based dashboard feature. We'll explore how to:
✅ Create an easy-to-navigate homepage
✅ Build room-based dashboards with uniform layouts
✅ Add light, climate, and automation controls
✅ Use buttons for room navigation
✅ Integrate quick-access badges (e.g., weather, shopping list, presence tracking)
✅ Display solar panel data, battery status, smart locks & more
✅ Optimize for mobile devices like phones and tablets
✅ Set the dashboard as the default on your app
💡 Whether you’re just starting out or looking to clean up your Home Assistant UI, this video is packed with tips and practical examples you can follow along with!
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📲 Watch this on mobile? I walk you through how to build with a mobile experience in mind — no more squinting at a bloated desktop layout!
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STEP 10 :The Best Home Assistant Dashboards (for Beginners)
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🎥 VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Video Intro
01:07 - A quick look at out of the box Dashboard (what you get with Home Assistant)
01:43 - Create a Home Assistant Dashboard based on Areas (Rooms)
03:31 - Compare Out of the Box Dashboard with the new Areas based Home Assistant Dashboard
07:18 - Updating the new Home Assistant Dashboard
14:10 - Adding a Home page to your Dashboard (setting up the main dashboard)
19:14 - Adding Badges to Home Assistant Dashboards
22:40 - Adding presence information to the Home Assistant Dashboard
25:03 - Setting your new Home Dashboard as the default (so when you open the HA app you go straight to your new Dashboard Home page)
25:35 - Summary and Thanks....
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