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!
Hi @13:56 you added a '-' sign in front of !include, but 2seconds later this '-'sign was gone again. I found out the moment I added the '-' back in, since I literatly followed your video the card came up :). So the '-' you have not in the rest of the video should be there to work!?!
@@hnefeenstra Thank you for the help. I spent more than 2 hours scratching my head over this, but after seeing your comment, I was able to resolve it easily.
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
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.
For people experiencing the following error: "Button-card template 'card_esh_welcome' is missing! For me, reloading the YAML configurations solved this issue.
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: "input_boolean.minimalist_dropdown" variables: ulm_card_esh_welcome_collapse: input_boolean.minimalist_dropdown 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"
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.😀
I love the in depth video! so much has changed in HA since then, i keep running into errors or things not matching what the video is showing. can you please make an updated video?
"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.
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.
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.
I'm following along step by step, but am getting an error around the 19:20 mark. The error is "Custom element doesn't exist: grid-layout". The only difference between what I did when following along was to install Big Slider Card since slider-card wasn't an option, I assume BSC is the new version?? Any ideas as to what I should do to resolve this? I've also got 2 "UI Lovelace Minimalist" links in my HA menu. The first one takes me to a blank page, nothing shown at all. The second one is what's producing the error along with a substantial amount of code.
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.
So looking forward to getting this up and running and fell at the first hurdle. I simply can't get the first card to work. I've installed all the bits and bobs, created the input_boolean, created the custom_card in the correct folder location and copied the code from your github but all I get is Button-card template 'card-esh-welcome' is missing!. No idea what I've done or need to do. Anyone else had this issue?
@@timmulhall2121 I did manage to get it working but not totally correctly as the font and icons are really small. Not sure exactly what I did as I was just going through another check and copying Lewis's code for a 3rd time and it started working, so probably not much help really, sorry. Just remember to restart minimalist after you put any new cards in via the YAML Configuration page. See 27:13 on the video.
Late reply, however, you do not need to restart home assistant every time you add a new 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.
I restored my HASS config to a new instance but missed something because my custom_cards are not found automatically. I have the same folder structure as you, installed with hacs in same folder. I can only point to one button card template folder so I just moved my custom cards in the minimalist folder. This will get wiped by updates for sure so not a sustainable option. Any thoughts?
Maybe comming a bit late to the party, but i am having an issue with the My Cards bundle - i don't seem to find it. Is it renamed to something else, or merged somewhere? Can someone give me a bit of help here, would be much appreciated :)
At 15:17 where Lewis clicks the + symbol to create a new dashboard, where do I do this in a new install (I never used mushroom). I've followed the instructions upto this point, but when I refresh the Minimalist dashboard populated in my left hand menu, the Welcome ESH card isn't displayed. The cards originally displayed before deleting the examples as per Lewis' guide, but the new car doesn't display, even after restarting.
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: ulm_custom_card_esh_room_light_entity: light.your_light
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!
I swear I've jumped in at the wrong time. Minimalist isn't working correctly following these instructions. Their Discord seems to have been dead for over a year and full of the same errors i've been having with no answers. What a pity! I think I'm going to go back to the "easy" tutorial.
Thanks for this great tutorial :) I encountered a problem with the Thermostat Card. It shows my current temperature and also the correct set temperature but when I press the + or - buttons I get this error: "Provided temperature 0.0 is not valid. Accepted range is 5.0 to 30.0. " This happens for all the different rooms. When I click on the set temperature to open the more detailed card with the dial control, this works without error.
Hello! I'm starting out with Home Assistant, and when I try to follow the video creating the dashboard I'm stuck at a point that must be very stupid. At 17:24, an error appears and does something to clear the error. What do I have to do to be able to delete it? Thank you very much for the help.
Had the same issue with it not showing at all, had to manually add 'my-cards' repo into HACS Frontend. Follow the my-cards link in description, scroll down to Installation and click "Detailed Explanation"
So I can see the default Minimalist UI page, but after creating a dedicated view for home, and creating the custom card for Welcome, when I try to load the Dashboard I just get a blank page
@@gavinmorgan8861 Hey Gav, i worked out part of the puzzle. Under your ui-lovelace.yaml, the !include views/home.yaml, you need to have a '-' in front. if in doubt, take a look at his github sample code. Its confusing because in the video it shows Lewis removing the preceding -
is it possible with the room icon to add another entity underneath the lights? for example the vacuum cleaner when you tap you call service vacuum start and when hold you get more info?
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.
Thanks for yours good tutorials But Ican't find "My Cards Bundle aka slider-card (download for HACS)" When i search it in HACS i can't find it. How can i do???
It would be helpful to highlight that you switched from Integrations to Frontend before you added Button Card. I couldn't find it and kept reviewing that part of the video. Then I noticed that you clicked on Frontend, and then I could find them. My Cards (my-cards-slider) seems to be gone.
Once it reloads / restarts, the Minimalist layouts are both showing that grid-layout is missing, as with my-cards. I was able to find the my-cards repository later, but still does not show up in the search, so could not load it.
watch Marco Bagger comment "I was running into a similar issue and solved by making sure that this " - !include views/home.yaml" has the correct indent."
Hey Lewis, how hard would it be to convert this dashboard for use on a tablet? Any chance you could make a video for creating a minimalist tablet dashboard? 😁
If you are struggling with small fonts and no colours don't be an idiot like me and make sure you have changed your theme to one of the minimalist ones in your profile!!
Awesome work as always. How do we submit bug fixes for the custom card room? I have two lights in a room and they are both at 100% and on, yet the card is showing 0%.
Are the instructions still relevant to the current version of HA? I am running core 2024.9.2, which comes with the Lovelace UI. When I try to install the Browser Mod, I get this error: "This integration does not support configuration via the UI." Cannot get past this.
Fantastic guide and I have started work on porting my mushroom setup to minimalist with your help! Question regarding your room card. I do not have a sensor to use in a label so have removed that and see that it is showing the light state which is great. My issue is that on rooms that do not have brightness capability, when its on, it shows as 0% brightness. The mushroom card shows "on" in comparison. Can you assist in how to change your card to handle this? Whats great on the mushroom card is I control a light group, one of those lights has brightness control - when I have that light on, it shows the brighness state, but if i turn that particular light off, the label changes to "On" if that makes sense...
Hello! thanks for this tutorial! I have been adopting quite a bit of your thinking. But I have one thought. The custom welcome card you made is cool. But I really hate that the "welcome" message uses to much real estate. Is it possible to update the custom card so the welcome message could be a configurable option to be removed? What do you think?
Thanks for the informative vid!! One question though, why are the color options limited to blue, red, green, yellow, pink, purple only? Is there a way to use a custom rgb value instead? Typing rgb(255,25,23) does not work
Hey thanks for this guide, I was wondering how to implement the custom_card_imswel_person it improves with the find my phone scripy etc. I have the first view working but when I tap on it, nothing opens. Why is this?
Hi Lewis, great video. I am just setting up my own dashboard and it is coming along very nice, based on all the great explanations in your video. One thing that I have not figured out yet is how to make those "entities" in the welcome card act as links to other pages. So e.g. for the lights and the labs. What would I have to do in the yaml to bring me to a view with all my lights when clicking on the "lights" button? Thanks and keep up the great work
The integration installs 2 dashboards for me to customize. Is it possible to create additional dashboards? I would like different views for devices/users. Thank you.
Hi Lewis, I don't know if you can see this message, and if you can answer it, but I would need your help :D On you navigation welcome card I'd like to add an alarm chip next to the weather one, but i'm not that good in code and I didn't have any success doing it. Is there an easy way ? Cheers !
Hi Lewis. First off: Thank you for your excellent videos and all the effort and hard work. I am learning a lot from you. I am trying to follow along with you. I have HA Supervised Docker installed on a Raspberry Pi 4. Following along I got as far as to add the integration auto-entities, but it does not show up in HACS. Is that because I am on a Raspberry Pi device? Will I be able to continue without it? Thanks again!
If there are any card that is not showing in HACS you could google the repository and then copy the link and add it to HACS is as simple as going to the top right corner, once there, click on the 3 points and there is an option to add custom repository, paste the url of the repo and it should appear in the next search :)
I like how you explain it however I’ve got home assistant green and it looks a lot different. Can you do a tutorial on how to do this on the HA Green please.
When both the light and climate icons are active there is no space for oth temp and humidity. I would like to just show the climate, however climate always shows up at the bottom and light at the top; can the light and climate icons be inverted?
I would love to know how to create my custom component. Things like creating a countdown timer based on the helper timer would be great. Where should I start? is there a good hands-on video you would recommend?
Love this its really helpful thank you as always. I don't appear to have any colours currently but I haven't finished everything so I guess I will try and figure that out later
Hi, in "Person Card" is it possible change the color badge? In "mushroom" I have "home" and "away" in Italian "in casa" and "fuori casa". How can I have the same thing here too?
great videos i thought id try the yaml program i have copied all the steps i cant see to get the home, light buttons etc to have the icon colours blue, yellow and so on tho all my icons are uncoloured but i do have colour on the weather. any ideas
This is awesome Lewis! I wanted to try Minimalist for quite a while already, but I didn't really know where to start. Now, I know what to do after work tonight! Super clear video, thanks a lot!
Nice video! Not to quick and lots of info. With this video my dashboard is starting to look nice, the only thing i can't get to work is make the custom_card_esh_welcome card toggle an input_boolean and not use it as an navigation button. Is this posible? would love to switch Home\away\sleep mode at the top.
I noticed you had 'Big Light' on your dashboard, forgot all about that Scottish term for the light in the middle of the room lol. I have already had a minimalist dashboard for a while now, Im now trying to separate my rooms into individual yaml files (views folder). I can do the home page as you have, but as soon as I add another room, I get 2 tabs saying 'Unnamed View' on the dashboard. Im so lost! ui_lovelace.yaml --- button_card_templates: !include_dir_merge_named "../../custom_components/ui_lovelace_minimalist/__ui_minimalist__/ulm_templates/" title: "Cuthill Family Home" background: "var(--background-image)" views: - !include views/overview.yaml - !include views/livingroom.yaml overview.yaml - title: "Overview" path: "overview" icon: "mdi:home" cards: - type: "custom:button-card" template: card_title name: Our Home label: "Climate, Security & Rooms" livingroom.yaml - title: "Living Room" path: "livingroom" icon: "mdi:sofa" cards: - type: horizontal-stack cards: - type: "custom:button-card" template: card_title name: Living Room label: ""
Great Video: Got a great dashboard working , but i can not change the name in the sidebar for the dashboard. I have change the title: in the YAML without much luck ... any ideas ?
Im sorry i deleted my post right before you answered, i figured out that my spacing was incorrect and didnt want to look like an idiot hahaha. thank you for the fast reply and fast help. And again i love your videos they have been really helpfull for my smart home.
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!
Thanks for the video, I really appreciate it. Question, how do I make this the default dashboard on my wife's phone, I have googled but nothing seems to work.
Great video Lewis. One question. Many different entity statuses or attributes are not being updated fast enough. par example the battery on my phone, the charging state of my phone or my location or the temperature of a sensor. when investigating in detail I see that last updates are several hours back. Any ideas?
Sadly - It doesn't work for me. I guess various things have changed in Home Assistant since this video was produced, resulting in no dashboard being shown at all. Several hours of my life I won't get back! Avoid it and look for more up to date instructions elsewhere.
This is wrong. I just did this. Some things might have changed, but overall not bad. Read the git of minimalist and you'll be fine. Please do your diligence.
First of all, kudos for the great videos. I'm halfway building my own dasboard while "getting some inspiiration" from you 😊 My goal is to combine the look of yours with the flexibility provided by the layout custom card to achieve the ultimate version running on mobile, tablet and desktop too. The only thing I couldn't find out until now is the find my phone script for the custom person card from your original video. Can you please help with that? Thank you.
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.
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!
Hi @13:56 you added a '-' sign in front of !include, but 2seconds later this '-'sign was gone again. I found out the moment I added the '-' back in, since I literatly followed your video the card came up :).
So the '-' you have not in the rest of the video should be there to work!?!
@@hnefeenstra that totally got me until I saw your comment, thanks!
@@hnefeenstra Thank you for the help. I spent more than 2 hours scratching my head over this, but after seeing your comment, I was able to resolve it easily.
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
in 2024, homme assistyant os 11.2 and hacs 1.33.0, they have error : custom element doesn't exist
I could install all frontends except for my card bundle (slider). What am I doing wrong? Is it deprecated maybe?
So do I.
how did you manage the "my-slider" not around in hacs. Did someone find something for this ? Can't use the light card cause of this.
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.
I love that you've contributed your cards back to the community! I'll be using most of them, thanks Lewis!
Thanks Jelle, appreciate it!
For people experiencing the following error: "Button-card template 'card_esh_welcome' is missing! For me, reloading the YAML configurations solved this issue.
Brilliant thanks, ran into this issue and reloading YAML worked.
sadly it is not working for me. Do you have any other suggestion by any chance ?
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: "input_boolean.minimalist_dropdown"
variables:
ulm_card_esh_welcome_collapse: input_boolean.minimalist_dropdown
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"
thanks!!
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.😀
I love the in depth video! so much has changed in HA since then, i keep running into errors or things not matching what the video is showing. can you please make an updated video?
"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.
how??
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.
I've got the same problem, but the cards are not red and show up in "../../www/community"...
@@ThePappaQ Same here, did you solve it?
Same problem, I can't find any solution
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.
Apologies, added the link for that in the description, it's the only one you need to add as a custom repo
I'm following along step by step, but am getting an error around the 19:20 mark. The error is "Custom element doesn't exist: grid-layout". The only difference between what I did when following along was to install Big Slider Card since slider-card wasn't an option, I assume BSC is the new version?? Any ideas as to what I should do to resolve this? I've also got 2 "UI Lovelace Minimalist" links in my HA menu. The first one takes me to a blank page, nothing shown at all. The second one is what's producing the error along with a substantial amount of code.
I realize you posted a year ago, but for people stumbling on this. You have to manually add
layout-card
state-switch
@@ncp1113 Thank you!
Great tutorial. Can you do a tutorial also with Adaptive Dashboard option? I think it will be great for tablets dashboards.
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.
I cannot find "my cards" to install
What happens at the jump at 19:25? I got to that step but I do not know what to change to get the top to reappear
So looking forward to getting this up and running and fell at the first hurdle. I simply can't get the first card to work. I've installed all the bits and bobs, created the input_boolean, created the custom_card in the correct folder location and copied the code from your github but all I get is Button-card template 'card-esh-welcome' is missing!. No idea what I've done or need to do. Anyone else had this issue?
Did you restart minimalist after copying the card to the location? Jump into the discord if your still stuck
I'm having the same issue Alan. Did you find a solution at all?
@@timmulhall2121 I did manage to get it working but not totally correctly as the font and icons are really small. Not sure exactly what I did as I was just going through another check and copying Lewis's code for a 3rd time and it started working, so probably not much help really, sorry. Just remember to restart minimalist after you put any new cards in via the YAML Configuration page. See 27:13 on the video.
@@alanyoung4256 thank you.
I'll give that a shit.
Thanks for the reply.
Late reply, however, you do not need to restart home assistant every time you add a new 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.
"My Card Slider" is unfortunately no longer being developed. Is there an update in this regard? :-)
I restored my HASS config to a new instance but missed something because my custom_cards are not found automatically. I have the same folder structure as you, installed with hacs in same folder. I can only point to one button card template folder so I just moved my custom cards in the minimalist folder. This will get wiped by updates for sure so not a sustainable option. Any thoughts?
I really like this look. I'd like to add elements of the HomeKit inspired dashboard to this one. Is that possible?
Maybe comming a bit late to the party, but i am having an issue with the My Cards bundle - i don't seem to find it. Is it renamed to something else, or merged somewhere? Can someone give me a bit of help here, would be much appreciated :)
At 15:17 where Lewis clicks the + symbol to create a new dashboard, where do I do this in a new install (I never used mushroom). I've followed the instructions upto this point, but when I refresh the Minimalist dashboard populated in my left hand menu, the Welcome ESH card isn't displayed. The cards originally displayed before deleting the examples as per Lewis' guide, but the new car doesn't display, even after restarting.
Strap in, strap-on 😳, and get yourself some coffee
😂😂
Hey Lewis can you make a video on how you made the custom card?
how is this different form mushroom? they look very similar but this seems to be much more complicated to setup and install
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:
ulm_custom_card_esh_room_light_entity: light.your_light
In the custom card template? or in the card it's self
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!
Nice one, glad it didn't take too long but yes be prepared to sink many hours into that 5% 😆
I swear I've jumped in at the wrong time. Minimalist isn't working correctly following these instructions. Their Discord seems to have been dead for over a year and full of the same errors i've been having with no answers. What a pity! I think I'm going to go back to the "easy" tutorial.
yeah, it has been a bit of a struggle. I got up to where I should have the first of the new dashboard displaying and... nothing.
Worked for me, following the exact instrucrions in the video
For anyone having trouble adding the 'my-slider' card:
github.com/AnthonMS/my-cards/issues/17
Thanks for this great tutorial :) I encountered a problem with the Thermostat Card. It shows my current temperature and also the correct set temperature but when I press the + or - buttons I get this error: "Provided temperature 0.0 is not valid. Accepted range is 5.0 to 30.0. " This happens for all the different rooms. When I click on the set temperature to open the more detailed card with the dial control, this works without error.
Is this still valid, The auto-entities' integration is not on hacs anymore as of today!
Thx for vídeo, I love this, I love this channel ❤
Thank you so much, appreciate it!
@13:56 I missed the "dash/Hyphen"
took me some time to find my mistake , hopefully it can help someone else
Hello! I'm starting out with Home Assistant, and when I try to follow the video creating the dashboard I'm stuck at a point that must be very stupid. At 17:24, an error appears and does something to clear the error. What do I have to do to be able to delete it? Thank you very much for the help.
Thanks for another great video Lewis. I can't seem to find the My Cards slider or My Cards Bundle. Do I need to add a repository in HACS?
Sorry, added a link for that in the description, you need to add it as a custom repo
Had the same issue with it not showing at all, had to manually add 'my-cards' repo into HACS Frontend.
Follow the my-cards link in description, scroll down to Installation and click "Detailed Explanation"
@@EverythingSmartHome what's the category of it? theme or integration?
i found that the category is lovelace
So I can see the default Minimalist UI page, but after creating a dedicated view for home, and creating the custom card for Welcome, when I try to load the Dashboard I just get a blank page
I’m glad it’s not just me getting this. What am I doing wrong? 😂
@@gavinmorgan8861 Hey Gav, i worked out part of the puzzle. Under your ui-lovelace.yaml, the !include views/home.yaml, you need to have a '-' in front. if in doubt, take a look at his github sample code. Its confusing because in the video it shows Lewis removing the preceding -
@@mangotran7116 great I’ll try that thanks. Yeah he said you have to put it in on video but he didn’t so I didn’t 😂
Yeah my bad guys, you need the hypen - was a slight mix up in the edit!
@@EverythingSmartHome appreciate your work!! All good!
everything goes fine, but my dashboard is empty. I dont have any errors anywhere..
is it possible with the room icon to add another entity underneath the lights? for example the vacuum cleaner when you tap you call service vacuum start and when hold you get more info?
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.
Thanks for yours good tutorials
But Ican't find "My Cards Bundle aka slider-card (download for HACS)"
When i search it in HACS i can't find it.
How can i do???
Link is in the description, just add it as a custom repo :)
hi!! Luis! nice work like always. I've been following step by step, but I can't use views/home.yaml :( I don''t know why
It would be helpful to highlight that you switched from Integrations to Frontend before you added Button Card. I couldn't find it and kept reviewing that part of the video. Then I noticed that you clicked on Frontend, and then I could find them.
My Cards (my-cards-slider) seems to be gone.
Once it reloads / restarts, the Minimalist layouts are both showing that grid-layout is missing, as with my-cards. I was able to find the my-cards repository later, but still does not show up in the search, so could not load it.
Anyone have issue with my-card-bundle? having trouble finding that + the sliders...
@@pieter.terpstra Thx Pieter, I ended up getting it to work. Just had to do a little digging.
Is this tutorial working again with new version? I've followed step by step but at minute 20:00 my minimalist page remain empty
watch Marco Bagger comment "I was running into a similar issue and solved by making sure that this " - !include views/home.yaml" has the correct indent."
I’ve got the sensor for counting how many lights that are on, how does one add that next to the weather icon? Love the guide!
Hey Lewis, how hard would it be to convert this dashboard for use on a tablet? Any chance you could make a video for creating a minimalist tablet dashboard? 😁
there is not camera card??
If you are struggling with small fonts and no colours don't be an idiot like me and make sure you have changed your theme to one of the minimalist ones in your profile!!
Thank you! I am quite certain this comment saved me a good few hours!
Awesome work as always. How do we submit bug fixes for the custom card room? I have two lights in a room and they are both at 100% and on, yet the card is showing 0%.
Through the minimalist GitHub would be great thanks!
Are the instructions still relevant to the current version of HA? I am running core 2024.9.2, which comes with the Lovelace UI. When I try to install the Browser Mod, I get this error: "This integration does not support configuration via the UI." Cannot get past this.
nvm - I figured it out. You have to "Download" before clicking the button to add the integration.
Fantastic guide and I have started work on porting my mushroom setup to minimalist with your help! Question regarding your room card. I do not have a sensor to use in a label so have removed that and see that it is showing the light state which is great. My issue is that on rooms that do not have brightness capability, when its on, it shows as 0% brightness. The mushroom card shows "on" in comparison. Can you assist in how to change your card to handle this? Whats great on the mushroom card is I control a light group, one of those lights has brightness control - when I have that light on, it shows the brighness state, but if i turn that particular light off, the label changes to "On" if that makes sense...
Thanks - hmm I can take a look at some point or hop into the discord server we might be able to figure it out
Hello! thanks for this tutorial! I have been adopting quite a bit of your thinking. But I have one thought. The custom welcome card you made is cool. But I really hate that the "welcome" message uses to much real estate. Is it possible to update the custom card so the welcome message could be a configurable option to be removed? What do you think?
if you edit the code you copied for the component itself, look for the and remove it then the welcome message will only be a single line
Thanks for the informative vid!! One question though, why are the color options limited to blue, red, green, yellow, pink, purple only? Is there a way to use a custom rgb value instead? Typing rgb(255,25,23) does not work
Tried to follow, but failed to install slider-card. My Cards Bundle doesn't exist. I had to install the git repo manually first
Hey thanks for this guide, I was wondering how to implement the custom_card_imswel_person it improves with the find my phone scripy etc.
I have the first view working but when I tap on it, nothing opens. Why is this?
Hi Lewis, great video. I am just setting up my own dashboard and it is coming along very nice, based on all the great explanations in your video. One thing that I have not figured out yet is how to make those "entities" in the welcome card act as links to other pages. So e.g. for the lights and the labs. What would I have to do in the yaml to bring me to a view with all my lights when clicking on the "lights" button?
Thanks and keep up the great work
The integration installs 2 dashboards for me to customize. Is it possible to create additional dashboards? I would like different views for devices/users. Thank you.
Is it possible to create 2 dashboards? 1 for mobile, 2nd for PC for example, with different layouts. UI Lovelace lets create only one by default
Hi Lewis,
I don't know if you can see this message, and if you can answer it, but I would need your help :D
On you navigation welcome card I'd like to add an alarm chip next to the weather one, but i'm not that good in code and I didn't have any success doing it.
Is there an easy way ?
Cheers !
Hi Lewis. First off: Thank you for your excellent videos and all the effort and hard work. I am learning a lot from you.
I am trying to follow along with you. I have HA Supervised Docker installed on a Raspberry Pi 4. Following along I got as far as to add the integration auto-entities, but it does not show up in HACS. Is that because I am on a Raspberry Pi device? Will I be able to continue without it? Thanks again!
I have the same problem and I'm running on a nuc so that is not it... I installed it manualy but that is kind of a hassle.
If there are any card that is not showing in HACS you could google the repository and then copy the link and add it to HACS is as simple as going to the top right corner, once there, click on the 3 points and there is an option to add custom repository, paste the url of the repo and it should appear in the next search :)
@@Kerjox095 Thanks for pointing that out. I feel like I should have known that, lol. I'll try that out tomorrow. Cheers!
@@Kerjox095 OK< so I tried that and it tells me that the integration is already in the store, however I cant see it anywhere in the store. Strange.
Nevermind, I found that you need to click on the Frontend tab and it is there.
Loving the vids this hellped alot. How do you fix the formate for the yaml code? takes a while to do it with space bar alone. Thanks
I like how you explain it however I’ve got home assistant green and it looks a lot different. Can you do a tutorial on how to do this on the HA Green please.
When both the light and climate icons are active there is no space for oth temp and humidity. I would like to just show the climate, however climate always shows up at the bottom and light at the top; can the light and climate icons be inverted?
Thanks for another great video Lewis. How can I replicate the size preset on top of the preview window ? Where it says iPhone 12 Pro ?
I would love to know how to create my custom component. Things like creating a countdown timer based on the helper timer would be great. Where should I start? is there a good hands-on video you would recommend?
Love this its really helpful thank you as always.
I don't appear to have any colours currently but I haven't finished everything so I guess I will try and figure that out later
How can you get the weather popup on the welcome card. It displays the right entity but the popup doesnt?
Hi, in "Person Card" is it possible change the color badge? In "mushroom" I have "home" and "away" in Italian "in casa" and "fuori casa". How can I have the same thing here too?
Anker is very good. i recommend
Me too!
Great video! Maybe I missed it, but what hardware are you running Home Assistant on?
I have a PowerEdge at the moment!
@@EverythingSmartHome Nice, I just upgraded my 710 and got a 720.. 40 cores of love :) (Using full linux, docker or windows for the HA install?)
Nice and verry well explain!!! when you think you will have your Desktop version available?
It is amazing how quickly custom card names and indexing changes. My-Card slider is tough to locate.
Check the links in the video description
did you find my-slider ?
Very good explanation! Can you show your version for tablet with mushroom? Thanks!!
Can I draw data from InfluxDb and display it thru Minimalist/Mushroom widgets?
great videos i thought id try the yaml program i have copied all the steps i cant see to get the home, light buttons etc to have the icon colours blue, yellow and so on tho all my icons are uncoloured but i do have colour on the weather. any ideas
This is awesome Lewis! I wanted to try Minimalist for quite a while already, but I didn't really know where to start. Now, I know what to do after work tonight! Super clear video, thanks a lot!
Awesome - let me know how it goes and enjoy!
Definitely using this as a how to when I am redoing my dashboard. Great video!
Thanks very much, good luck!
Are you going to make a new tutorial now with the drag and drop system?
Nice video! Not to quick and lots of info. With this video my dashboard is starting to look nice, the only thing i can't get to work is make the custom_card_esh_welcome card toggle an input_boolean and not use it as an navigation button. Is this posible? would love to switch Home\away\sleep mode at the top.
Hi, brilliant work!
Can You also share Your desktop version? It'd be amazing!
I noticed you had 'Big Light' on your dashboard, forgot all about that Scottish term for the light in the middle of the room lol.
I have already had a minimalist dashboard for a while now, Im now trying to separate my rooms into individual yaml files (views folder). I can do the home page as you have, but as soon as I add another room, I get 2 tabs saying 'Unnamed View' on the dashboard. Im so lost!
ui_lovelace.yaml
---
button_card_templates: !include_dir_merge_named "../../custom_components/ui_lovelace_minimalist/__ui_minimalist__/ulm_templates/"
title: "Cuthill Family Home"
background: "var(--background-image)"
views:
- !include views/overview.yaml
- !include views/livingroom.yaml
overview.yaml
- title: "Overview"
path: "overview"
icon: "mdi:home"
cards:
- type: "custom:button-card"
template: card_title
name: Our Home
label: "Climate, Security & Rooms"
livingroom.yaml
- title: "Living Room"
path: "livingroom"
icon: "mdi:sofa"
cards:
- type: horizontal-stack
cards:
- type: "custom:button-card"
template: card_title
name: Living Room
label: ""
Can you set this up so you have different dashboards for different users?
Great Video: Got a great dashboard working , but i can not change the name in the sidebar for the dashboard. I have change the title: in the YAML without much luck ... any ideas ?
Im sorry i deleted my post right before you answered, i figured out that my spacing was incorrect and didnt want to look like an idiot hahaha. thank you for the fast reply and fast help. And again i love your videos they have been really helpfull for my smart home.
great using this a year later and seeing your contributions part of the official source code now!
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!
Thanks for the video, I really appreciate it. Question, how do I make this the default dashboard on my wife's phone, I have googled but nothing seems to work.
Do you have a course on learning Yaml/lovelace and developing advanced cards/events? Great video!
It should be easy. I'm a dummy. Don't have the energy I had 10 years ago.
Can't find the code for the greeting template. Can you help please.
Great video Lewis. One question. Many different entity statuses or attributes are not being updated fast enough. par example the battery on my phone, the charging state of my phone or my location or the temperature of a sensor. when investigating in detail I see that last updates are several hours back. Any ideas?
Thank you very much for your detailed guide!! Can you please show us how to change the background images? Thank you!
How does one get ride of the dashboards that installed this way?
Once uninstalled via HACS, be sure to restart the system. Sometimes it is the most obvious things...Well usually it is!
you're video are great! can you please upload your full minimalist folder so i can look how you integradet certain thing?
Sadly - It doesn't work for me. I guess various things have changed in Home Assistant since this video was produced, resulting in no dashboard being shown at all. Several hours of my life I won't get back! Avoid it and look for more up to date instructions elsewhere.
This is wrong. I just did this. Some things might have changed, but overall not bad. Read the git of minimalist and you'll be fine. Please do your diligence.
Using the scenes card, how can I set up the color to change once I activate/deactivate a scene?
First of all, kudos for the great videos. I'm halfway building my own dasboard while "getting some inspiiration" from you 😊 My goal is to combine the look of yours with the flexibility provided by the layout custom card to achieve the ultimate version running on mobile, tablet and desktop too. The only thing I couldn't find out until now is the find my phone script for the custom person card from your original video. Can you please help with that? Thank you.
Thanks! Sure hop in the discord server if your still stuck
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.