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re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!
Posted on 5/10/26 at 8:14 am to bluebarracuda
Posted on 5/10/26 at 8:14 am to bluebarracuda
Yes. Yes he is 
This has been such a fun project. It's the gift that keeps giving. Can't believe I waited so many years before getting into HA but honestly having AI to help made this so much better.
The backups, hardening the setup, thinking through issues like tv burn in and restarting any service that crashes and in general making this more than a grade school science experiment has transformed this into something truly useful and the family has even gotten on board.
All this in a fraction of the time I usually spend hacking at problems.
If I had AI in 2020 when I was building my multicade that would have turned out a billion times better than the train wreck I have now.
I guess maybe time to dust that off and make it better but I'm tried boss. Getting to the age in my life that I'm losing interest in having 30 projects going at the same time.
This has been such a fun project. It's the gift that keeps giving. Can't believe I waited so many years before getting into HA but honestly having AI to help made this so much better.
The backups, hardening the setup, thinking through issues like tv burn in and restarting any service that crashes and in general making this more than a grade school science experiment has transformed this into something truly useful and the family has even gotten on board.
All this in a fraction of the time I usually spend hacking at problems.
If I had AI in 2020 when I was building my multicade that would have turned out a billion times better than the train wreck I have now.
I guess maybe time to dust that off and make it better but I'm tried boss. Getting to the age in my life that I'm losing interest in having 30 projects going at the same time.
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Posted on 5/10/26 at 8:19 am to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
quote:
just spent 3 hours in my attic and cut 3 holes in my walls to get an ethernet cable from the attic down to my router so the new industrial POE switch in the attic can get internet before my new POE cameras come today.
fricking home assistant.
I understand that sentiment
Posted on 5/10/26 at 11:18 am to CAD703X
quote:
Yes. Yes he is
Send me his channel in Orpheus chat
Posted on 5/10/26 at 11:20 am to bluebarracuda
Damn is that the communications channel we're reduced to?
I mean that will work but...
I mean that will work but...
Posted on 5/10/26 at 3:17 pm to CAD703X
Hell I don't know your discord username
Posted on 5/11/26 at 4:41 pm to bluebarracuda
Nice. I need a better mobile dashboard. Mine is just my lighting scenes, pool/spa, chatbot, and a button to reset dispatcharr that I haven’t needed since an update or two ago.
What are you using to make dashboards?
What are you using to make dashboards?
Posted on 5/12/26 at 11:47 am to Dallaswho
quote:
What are you using to make dashboards?
What do you mean by this
Posted on 5/12/26 at 3:01 pm to bluebarracuda
I mean if I’m not getting paid, dashboards are too painful for me. Are you using AI to write the yaml or building via the UI?
Posted on 5/12/26 at 4:06 pm to Dallaswho
quote:i'm up to around 15 dashboards now.
using AI to write the yaml
ai is the only way to go new:
- weather radar loop dashboard triggered by NWS notifications..i will never sit through another ad or a shitty loading 'weather.com' website to see the radar loop again!!!
- individual full screen cctv camera dashboards for each camera
- rachio+tempest/ecowitt irrigation control dashboard (sexy! pops up when irrigation is running and the current zone photo glows)..the ecowitt is commented out for now since the hardware wont get here until this weekend
Posted on 5/12/26 at 4:14 pm to Dallaswho
Ah, I find dashboards that I like on YouTube and Reddit and suit it to my needs
Posted on 5/12/26 at 5:46 pm to CAD703X
So you can pop up different dashboards via automation? Ok I’m interested.
Most of my home assistant is notification based for things going wrong or people where they don’t belong based on time of day or garage door status, etc. The rest is voice controlled.
Basically I never look at HA except to turn on the hot tub and that’s only because I don’t expose the heater to assist or Alexa.
If I had some better dashboards though…
Most of my home assistant is notification based for things going wrong or people where they don’t belong based on time of day or garage door status, etc. The rest is voice controlled.
Basically I never look at HA except to turn on the hot tub and that’s only because I don’t expose the heater to assist or Alexa.
If I had some better dashboards though…
Posted on 5/12/26 at 6:46 pm to Dallaswho
quote:
So you can pop up different dashboards via automation? Ok I’m interested.
Dynamic tiles. Can have them show based on entity state, automation state, time, presence location, etc
Posted on 5/12/26 at 6:48 pm to Dallaswho
quote:even easier. i bit the bullet and bought a full chatgpt account for $20/mo and i get unlimited prompts.
So you can pop up different dashboards via automation? Ok I’m interested.
i admit i did alot of fighting in the beginning but now i've gotten chatGPT whipped into shape and i know if there's a card that's off center or falling off the bottom of the display to NOT go down the rabbit hole or you could spend 6 hours just trying to move something around only for it become a complete mess (ask me how i know).
now i just pull up dev tools and tell it that everything is FINE except that one card display and let's not redo anything else until we've figured out what is causing the issue.
on par, i would say i spend 15% of my time getting chatgpt to get the code right (it does this almost perfect every time) and 85% of my time with UX/display issues.
but i digress; i would suggest this if you really want to build some dashboards:
- take advantage of includes/packages/shared yaml for things like headers and footers; once you work it so those are external; the dashboards are so much easier to wire in and if you need to add to your ever expanding list of dashboard buttons on the bottom; you just change it in one place.
- i developed a dark theme early on (themes.yaml i think?) so thats great to also have because any new dashboards created will follow that so less to go wrong with AI
- avoid Ai getting too 'cute' and trying to write custom YAML for EVERYTHING. tell it to take advantage of existing cards as much as possible so you don't get into the UX death spiral that i found myself in a few times.
- basically i have a 'project' under chatgpt called '43" bar display' and i have chats under that; one for each dash i'm working on. that helps keep sanity because you'll bounce back & forth often as you're getting things set up or you think of something cool and want to add it to other dashboards you've already created
- i keep a google search tab open and ask google for the latest & greatest HACS integration for Widget X, Y or Z so when i talk to chatgpt, i already know which integration or card i want it to reference when building something and ive already installed it so its ready to go so the first yaml is generally pretty good right off the bat.
- i always have AI send me a file each time it creates a new YAML and this is a lifesaver when you realize you had it almost perfect 27 versions prior and you currently have a mess. its way less painful to 'revert' back and give AI that version and say "let's try again from this good yaml we had yesterday" nothing worse than AI fricking up a beautiful dashboard and you've lost the ability to go back to what you had and it seems unable to make it look as good as it did the first time. once you are happy with it, then you can delete those 40 other files in your 'downloads' folder it gave you that are garbage now.
any i'm blabbing. i know my case is unique because i'm putting this on a pretty large display and making it 'guest friendly' so alot of what i'm doing wont really translate that well.
but what does work well is asking AI to create automations, triggers or other thnigs just ty talking to it. its really good at that; but not as good at the UX without a little bit of fighting.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 6:52 pm to bluebarracuda
quote:
Dynamic tiles. Can have them show based on entity state, automation state, time, presence location, etc
Roborock pops up full screen 'live' map when its cleaning and it goes away when its done.
Rachio pops up full screen display of irrigation when it starts and goes away when its done.
Weather radar loop dashboard pops up after NWS alerts in my area and/or data received by my tempest/ecowitt (such as a wind burst at my house) and overrides the vacuum or rachio if thats on-screen when an alert comes in
i also have various dashboards rotate in to avoid burn in; but 90% of the time its sitting on the bar display and i have a toggle on my phone to turn the rotation on or off.
basically anything you WANT it to do; it CAN do with almost zero effort.
eta and with the HACS browser_mod each display, ipad, tv, etc. have a unique ID so if you have a 2 story house, you can tell HA to display the roborock on the second floor on the 2nd floor display and the robo rock on the first floor on the first floor display.
This post was edited on 5/12/26 at 6:55 pm
Posted on 5/13/26 at 3:41 pm to CAD703X
CAD did you say you have a button to start your robot vacuum? I have a working button but it's ugly as hell lol.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 4:30 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
quote:
CAD did you say you have a button to start your robot vacuum? I have a working button but it's ugly as hell lol.
i have my vacuum on a couple of schedules throughout the day to take care of various rooms.
if you're referring to the dashboard, i have it set to jump to the vacuum dashboard right after it starts and then reverts back to bar display when done.
you can ignore the NWS and rachio stuff stuff; thats in there to 'override' the vacuum screen in case a severe weather alert comes in while the vacuum dash is being displayed or the sprinklers turn on while its on screen
quote:
- id: snow_white_display_show_vacuum_dashboard_on_kiosk
alias: Snow White Display - Show Vacuum Dashboard On Kiosk
description: ''
triggers:
- entity_id: vacuum.snow_white
to: cleaning
trigger: state
- entity_id: vacuum.snow_white
to: returning
trigger: state
actions:
- data:
browser_id: browser_mod_ed55e803_dcb0c8c1
path: /dashboard-experiments/roborock-final?kiosk
action: browser_mod.navigate
mode: restart
conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: '{{ states(''sensor.nws_alerts_zone_tnc037_tnz027_tnz027_nws_alerts_alerts'') | int(0) == 0 }}'
- id: snow_white_display_return_kiosk_to_bar_display
alias: Snow White Display - Return Kiosk To Bar Display
description: ''
triggers:
- entity_id: vacuum.snow_white
to: docked
trigger: state
- entity_id: vacuum.snow_white
to: idle
trigger: state
conditions:
- condition: not
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: vacuum.snow_white
state: cleaning
- condition: state
entity_id: vacuum.snow_white
state: returning
- condition: not
conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: '{{ is_state(''switch.zone_1_lake'', ''on'') or is_state(''switch.zone_2_front_driveway'', ''on'') or is_state(''switch.zone_3_lake_beds'', ''on'') or is_state(''switch.zone_4_shed_beds'', ''on'') or is_state(''switch.zone_5_millie_s_hill'', ''on'') or is_state(''switch.zone_6_top_of_big_garden'', ''on'') or is_state(''switch.zone_7_into_the_scary_woods'', ''on'') or is_state(''switch.zone_8_front_yard'', ''on'') }}'
- condition: template
value_template: '{{ states(''sensor.nws_alerts_zone_tnc037_tnz027_tnz027_nws_alerts_alerts'') | int(0) == 0 }}'
actions:
- delay: 00:00:20
- data:
browser_id: browser_mod_ed55e803_dcb0c8c1
path: /bar-display/home?kiosk
action: browser_mod.navigate
Posted on 5/13/26 at 4:44 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
From my dashboard on the previous page, clicking on the robot icon brings up this page:
Pic coming soon lol
And clicking on the area around the icon brings you to the daily runnings it does, so I can turn them on or off when needed
Pic coming soon lol
And clicking on the area around the icon brings you to the daily runnings it does, so I can turn them on or off when needed
This post was edited on 5/13/26 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 5/13/26 at 5:45 pm to bluebarracuda
I have a shitty Roomba j7 now but I want to upgrade on prime day.
Currently I just want a button that will start cleaning if I tap it and send it home if I tap it again.
I also think I fricked up sort of badly by getting Samsung tablets instead of POE screens. The Samsung seems to be having a lot of trouble streaming 4 cameras at once even on small cards.
Currently I just want a button that will start cleaning if I tap it and send it home if I tap it again.
I also think I fricked up sort of badly by getting Samsung tablets instead of POE screens. The Samsung seems to be having a lot of trouble streaming 4 cameras at once even on small cards.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 6:43 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
because i'm a psycho and cant control myself i now have a 'night mode' dash that comes on at 8pm and off at 730am.
also used the samsung smarthings app to turn the tv off at 1030pm and on at 730am.
this just keeps getting better.
also used the samsung smarthings app to turn the tv off at 1030pm and on at 730am.
this just keeps getting better.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:45 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
I have a shitty tuya robot vacuum, but it's been great so far. Here's what my dashboard brings up:
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