This Smart Home Dashboard Isn't Easy But It's Worth It...

The long awaited Minimalist Guide is finally here! In this video, I talk you through how to recreate my own Home Assistant Dashboard with Minimalist as the project to build the best smart home mobile dashboard there is in 2022!

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0:00 - Intro
1:58 - Anker Sponsor
3:38 - Things we need installed
7:20 - Adding our theme
8:36 - Explaining the documentation
11:26 - Minimalist Layout in Studio Code
15:27 - Creating our Welcome Card
19:56 - Creating our Person Card
23:08 - Creating our Title Card
23:53 - Creating our Room Cards
28:35 - Creating our individual rooms
30:33 - Creating our Graph Cards
32:25 - Creating our devices section
36:47 - Creating our sensors section

[EverythingSmartHome]

It's finally here, hope you all enjoy this one - make sure to keep tagging me in photos of your sweet dashboards you've been making, I've been loving seeing them!

P.s - I added the final code I finished with at the end of this video to the description if you need it for reference!

[jkoopsen]

I love that you've contributed your cards back to the community! I'll be using most of them, thanks Lewis!

[gegeabscons]

For multiple views to work, you mustn't do as in the video at 13:25 and delete the views: !include_dir_merge_list "views/" line, but keep it and uncomment it by deleting the # and the space. This tells Minimalist that the various views are in the "views" folder.

Then, when creating a view, paste the entire block and don't forget the dash and space before "title". Create a file for each view using the same procedure but with a different name, and add an icon if you like. This example works for me:

- title: "Home"
path: "home"
icon: "mdi:home-assistant"
cards:
- type: "custom:button-card"
template: "card_esh_welcome"
triggers_update:
variables:

ulm_weather: "weather.your.weather"
entity_1:
nav: "house"
icon: "mdi:home"
name: "House"
color: "blue"
entity_2:
nav: "lights"
icon: "mdi:lightbulb"
name: "Lights"
color: "yellow"
entity_3:
nav: "security"
icon: "mdi:shield"
name: Secure
color: "green"
entity_4:
nav: "network"
icon: "mdi:nas"
name: Lab
color: "purple"
entity_5:
nav: "network"
icon: "mdi:flask"
name: Lab
color: "red"

[Ceteex]

Just to make things easier, you do not need to restart home assistant every time you add a custom card. You can always go into developer tools and then restart "UI LOVELACE MINIMALIST". This way is much faster and easier than restarting HA every time a new custom card is added.

[robinrummens]

For people experiencing the following error: "Button-card template 'card_esh_welcome' is missing! For me, reloading the YAML configurations solved this issue.

[alondinbar]

Hey Lewis! After i trying to show the welcome card part, i dont see nothing. I created the toggle helper. No one answer me on discord also ):
Thanks for the video thu

[patrickdevries]

Hi, Love this dashboard. Made a complete fresh new install and followed everything till 8:20. When I click my minimalist icon, I don't see the dashboards. Also the following messages.

Custom element doesn't exist: button-card
Custom element doesn't exist: auto-entities ect.ect.

All the cards are downloaded and I can see them in HACS, Integration, Frontend. All have Lovelace in the top right corner of the cards



I also installed the mushroom cards, later I saw in HACS Frontend a lot off cards red, I reinstalled them, now that part works. I will continue with you explanation. Many tnx for the vid.

[zeud]

in 2024, homme assistyant os 11.2 and hacs 1.33.0, they have error : custom element doesn't exist

[RuudSpreeuwenberg]

Thanks for the this great video guide Lewis! I watched and I am getting ready to build my minimalist dashbaord. In the video description however you link to a written article. I thought this could be helpful for all the required installs, however the link only shows me an article loop archive on your website.

[plnkr]

Excellent video Lewis, I've been using mushroom but will definately give minilimist a go. Very detailed and easy to follow explanations. I'd love to see you go into detail on creating your own custom cards.😀

[sdfhjklhsfdjdsflhkds]

Brilliant!

I watched this video once, thought about Minimalist yaml versus Mushroom cards and decided to take the plunge. I had 95% of my new Minimalist UI done in a few hours. No doubt the remaining 5% (mostly endless polishing and tweaking) will take me another 20-30 hours, but you gave me the insights I needed to pull this off.

I've been using HA for a long time and had zero issues with complex automations, but the UI side always seemed very daunting indeed. Thanks Lewis for showing my a clear path on how to get there!

[markusmaucher]

I could install all frontends except for my card bundle (slider). What am I doing wrong? Is it deprecated maybe?

[cosminhriscu]

Great tutorial. Can you do a tutorial also with Adaptive Dashboard option? I think it will be great for tablets dashboards.

[Ceteex]

At 27:33, if the light icon in the right corner of the room card doesn't show up, it's because changes to the card have been made since this video was released.
You will have to these 2 lines of code in the room card:
variables:
light.your_light

[yevhenshaina]

"My card slider" is not available neither in HACS nor via Github page for manual installation. Is there a replacement or other solution?
Solved: to install it first you need to add a custom repository in HACS.

[mindracing]

Well done Lewis, very good, again. I'm not finding my-slider or my cards bundle though, when trying to download the repositories. Why could that be. Everything else is fine.

[DavidBruner_NJ]

It is amazing how quickly custom card names and indexing changes. My-Card slider is tough to locate.

[clairerovic]

Luv it, Thankyou, this would have been so much work. Looking forward to playing with this tonight and seeing what trouble I can get into.
Just so you know, this is not to long. Watched just before going to work.

[tfdsu]

Lewis, regarding a "Back" button. Personally I find it too small to be comfortable, especially under certain circumstations (big hands, health-troubled hands, a lefty, etc), so I removed it. instead, I replicated "House/Lights/Secure/Net/Lab" top menu on every page, and also placed small "Home" chip to the lft from weather chip, taking me to the home overview page.
Now navigation is a breeze, I can visit any page from any page without moving back, plus, transitions now are fluent, resembling a native iOS app, especially in kiosk mode, which you can enable for mobile app exclusively.

[ianjohnston]

Great guide as always and love that you give to the community not just here but actually contributing to enhancing the products.
Now tell us more about your camper!