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very nice build. I wonder if it will work with the Aqara Presence Sensor FP2 instead of the $5.00 sensors

This is pretty brilliant! I've used conditional cards on my main dashboard to draw attention to sets of conditions which don't normally make sense - home vacant, alarm armed, but HVAC in normal comfort mode - and display a markdown card with colored text to draw attention. But I love this idea, even without room presence sensors - lots of the PIRs have an occupancy value they present as well and I can just use that to create a dynamically adapting dashboard based on where people are in our home at any given time. Of course, now I'm going to have to play with the ESP sensors too :)

Tying room presence detection to conditional dashboard cards is a great idea! Is there anyway to avoid duplicating all of those cards across the multiple dashboards, though? I’d imagine if you ever have to make a change it’d be a pain to make that change in all those different places.

Hey Reed, I've got a similar setup but I use the Chips card, to me it saves space and the chips can also be conditional. I have two chips cards at the top of my dashboard, one that allows me to toggle individual rooms (they come on automatically via motion and BT). The other chips card has the contextual notifications like you have the vertical stack for, those things that I probably want to do one action with, or just be notified of (ie garage door open would close on click and refrigerator door open would just be for visibility). Love it!

This is a great idea! Right when the video started I was thinking ESPrensense with a dashboard. I have been trying to come up with different ideas using them. Now I gotta start working on a new dashboard haha

Now I’ve got to rebuild all my dashboards and install esp modules in all my rooms, because this is a great idea.

I love how you illustrate some of the pitfalls of a given automation with the little skits like at the end of this video. Great job as always.

The cloud is someone else's computer. I am trying the Hikvision variety that works with my NVR for local storage and will install it soon. I am sure it has goofy stuff about it too

This is awesome! Is there a way to make a card conditional based on time of day?

Nice, might look into this. Do you have a suggestion to FORCE a wall-dashboard. to be zoomed out to like 70% instead of being at 100% when the app restarts? can't find where to do this

Google Assistant may be getting replaced with Google Gemini. So if you're wondering who will be discontinued first, it's likely Google Assistant. Though that's a bit of a stretch since it's merely just being replaced with an AI language model to compete with ChatGPT.

How do you achieve the "Resume schedule" button with Ecobee (after someone has manually changed the temp? I can't seem to figure this one out!

I felt this because I don’t know what to put on my work dashboards. 😢😂

To fix the issue of not knowing which room you’re about to enter, maybe you could break the no scroll rule and have controls for adjacent rooms below?

I only use one little screen with my dashboard, so conditional cards have been a must since day one 😅.

Alexa, Tell Reed that his dashboard is good. Siri, turn off the patio lights while he looks at his dashboard. :-)

Is there an updated version to this?

I have used concepts similar to these on our dashboards, and yes it makes it much more usable than the overloaded and cluttered dashboards I usually see. Some things I have used also in case they are helpful: - The auto entities card available via HACS allows you to automatically show/hide entities based on multiple filters. This is an alternative to the "one by one" nature of your conditional card. - I have a view per room and use the tab redirect card available via HACS to automatically switch tabs based on my presence. I have updated that card so that it switches on dashboard load or when the conditions change which allows me to then "override" to a different tab, like your dropdown. But it allows conditions per user, which eliminates duplicating the dashboards. - Some of our entity states allow me to more immediately switch user's state rather than solely using the presence detection, e.g. our bed sensors. - If you did want to maintain the two dashboards for you and your wife, check out the decluttering card in HACS. You can define the "template" dashboard in one spot and then implement it twice, which will make your upkeep easier.

Looking sharp Reed!

Pupil: Teacher how do you write woman Teacher: w-o-m-a-n woman Pupil: hmm ok but then how do you write women Teacher: w-o-m-e-n Pupil: Wait why does wo sometimes spell woo and sometimes wee Teacher: Oh my boy this is not the last time you'll ask about makes no sense with women

If you've reached the point of needing to make special dashboards that update dynamically so that you can turn off the back porch lights, isn't more of a question of whether or not you need that function to be smart or not? Like you start making a house a smart house to simplify life, but isn't there a threshold of what is being made more simple?

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Impressive, but I've come to the conclusion I need to rid myself of dashboards. I believe a truly 'smart' home shouldn't need to be controlled or show the status anywhere.

Some great tips there. I have a different approach as have low vision and home assistant has been great for making controls really big and easy to see. That does mean more tabs or scrolling so I might try conditional elements.

My first thought was "what if you are used to seeing entities in a certain area of a dash and now you have to scan and confirm whether for example the garage isn't in the list and therefore open?" That can be overcome by not overfilling a dash, but that would probably be my issue with conditional visibility.

That banan split looked great Reed 🫡

I think you Will Change a lot of dashboards around The world 🤣 I Will use this first with The drop down, anda after with The presente detertors (i've to take those!)

Bearded Reed looks way better btw.

Very cool, Reed. Been thinking about the same since your video with Dan. I recently spruced up my mobile and tablet dashboard, but opted for a simple, static layout that allows me to see everything important and frequently used in one view with no scrolling required. What’s it been like maintaining/updating multiple dashboards (yours + Aly’s) as your smart home evolves?

Hello, je fais comme vous, pour que ma femme utilise au maximum la domotique et pour les femmes il faut des choses simples :) merci pour la vidéo

Could the condition also be a connection to a certain WiFi? That could be a simple "home or not" condition. Would be enough for people like me with a less sophisticated Smarthome 🤔

So what’s the best way to accomplish those tasks butting from the video you are referring to?

I'm officially impressed 🤩😁

Can you do a video on how to set up home assistant for new users. For your smart home why don't you also have away for you to use your voice to also control the action. Can you add if someone doesn't want to use home assistant they want to use Apple Home or Google Home or Alexa how they look with your current set up

Who is that? Brad Pitt??

ive added a 'whats on' card to my dashboard a while ago, it was super easy and auto shows whatever is actually on - card: type: entities title: Whats On? show_header_toggle: false type: entity-filter entities: - entity: light.kitchen_pendant - entity: switch.shellypro2_30c6f78a5f84_switch_0 name: Medium Fan Dining - entity: switch.shellypro2_30c6f78a5f84_switch_1 name: Max Fan Dining - entity: switch.hot_water_cylinder name: HWC Element state_filter: - 'on' view_layout: position: main (removed most entities for brevity) I use it constantly, but the presence idea is great... being that all my light switches are nspanels, i need to look into this

I was sceptical until you mentioned the manual room select. So you're eating the cake AND you're keeping it! Great Ideas, i'll look further into this.

Use groups and auto-entities and you can get this with less work.

Awwww you beat me to it. I hadn't seen anyone do this before. I've been waiting to get room presence implemented into my smart home before doing this exact thing. i didn't think about the hiding of stuff that I just glance over and don't care about though. Like having my garage door not there if it's closed, or making an "away" dashboard. For tablets in rooms, do you just have them always on that room or do you allow them to select their own room too so you can change settings to something that's not in that room?

Well done!

How do you control your garage door if the door is closed? For example the doors closed and I want to open it via the dashboard how is that possible?

Hey Reed, I think this is a great idea and I wanted to take it a step further, so I used the auto entities card to automatically grab every light entity for the room I am in. Works pretty well, just needs your room names from ESPresence to match the area names in home assistant (I have to replace underscores with spaces and capitalize the words) Card code: type: custom:auto-entities card: type: entities filter: template: > {% set location = states('sensor.sam_s_apple_watch').replace('_', ' ') | capitalize %} {{ states.light | selectattr('entity_id', 'in', area_entities(location)) | map(attribute='entity_id') | list }} exclude: []

Not new, but we didn't quite go to the extent you did with the room presence. Our system is mostly automated so that we don't have to do much with the dashboards, but if we're in a room then it'll show some custom things like that room's temperature etc. The hidden conditional stuff we use a lot tho since the early days of HA. If the washing machine is on, it displays a few tabs showing the program, duration, time it finishes etc. Same with our Sous Vide. If a power hungry device is on (toaster, kettle, coffee machine) then it shows real-time power for that device until it switches off. For health things like if a bathroom humidity is > threshold then display on the screen to make sure the door is open enough to air it and prevent mould. All kinds of alerts to replace normal stats when devices are offline or busy like our NAS' or PiHoles. The list goes on ... :) We also have some additional conditions on our tablet so that when a guest is present (see HACS: unifics) it'll hide some private items like our calendar and replaces them with weather cards and also hides some functions. This way, if they have kids, there's no danger of them poking about flashing lights or send the vacuum out or turning the TV off if we're in the middle of watching something. When editing the dashboards it looks pretty intimidating, but when in display mode it's all neat and tidy

It's not often a video comes up that really has a brilliant idea that can have a meaningful impact to my HA instance. This is one of those. Didn't even know that there was a conditional card - sweet!

ALL of this can just be controlled with VOICE commands and there is NO need for a phone or tablet! It's NOT that hard to remember a phrase to execute a function and is MUCH more convenient since you do NOT need a phone or tablet in the first place. Really? "lights on/off" or "bedroom room lights on/off" or "blinds open/closed". WHY do I want to pickup my phone or access a tablet to do these things? I DON'T!

Looks impressive and all but how MANY many actual hours did you spend setting this up? I mean how ridiculously LAZY do you need to get? Unless your IQ is less than 10 most apps/platforms are fine to do automatons. Since you are using the Apple platform you've already restricted yourself vs. Android IMO. I can literally control EVERYTHING with voice commands to run routines/scenes where I do NOT even need a phone or tablet to go through the extra steps. I can just say "turn on/off device" or say run a routine without any phone or tablet. I do NOT want the need for a phone or tablet and to me is MUCH more convenient using my voice vs. having to pickup a phone or access a tablet. To me it defeats the whole process. The WHOLE point is to eliminate the need for a phone or tablet to do something. I'll stick to my process. IMO voice commands FAR exceed the need for a phone or tablet to preform the simple or complex tasks.

Thanks for this!

LOVE it! Now I need to rebuild my entire dashboard. Again. Haha. Awesome video

its going to be a pain in the ass for your kids to sneak out without tripping any automations lol

Nice! Thanks Reed.