I’m wondering what people here would think about Home Assistant’s stock UI getting a bit of a facelift? I know you can customize to your hearts content, but I’ve always found stock Home Assistant to be a little hard on the eyes. Its not bad in my mind, just feels a bit dated and static.
Anyhow, wondered if anyone here has thought the same. I’d welcome a face lift.
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They have been working on the dashboards a fair amount recently but if you’re expecting a brand new look, that isn’t likely to happen. They recently hired the guy behind “bubble cards”, who has then put a lot of work into the stock UI’s tile card. It’s pretty obvious this is the direction they intend to continue.
However it’s very extendable with themes and there is even some project that uses some entire closed source frontend for their dashboards. I forget the name of it though, but it might be worth looking into for you.
That’s cool to hear they brought someone on who made popular title cards. Definitely curious to hear about that. I always kind of feel a little uneasy about heavily modifying certain things due to breakages. In the vein of something like Gnome desktop, using a bunch of extension messes with things in the longterm.
Albeit, Home Assistant may be more resilient to aesthetic changes.
I am using the stock UI only, and for several years now. I cannot complain.
Yes, you could say it looks a little dusty in the corners maybe, but no strong changes needed IMHO.
The constraints of only being able to make cards in predefined columns and positions is absolutely ridiculous. We should be able to drag-n-drop and resize to whatever size cards we want. It’s a huge PITA to make anything that doesn’t follow this incredibly restricted way of thinking.
Last versions have added many possibilities that you are talking about.
Keep in mind that the UI needs to adapt to a dynamically resizable window, and it’s very tricky if you just “freely” put thing wherever you want.
I haven’t been able to freely move cards, or easily expand beyond the defined column with newest version. It shouldn’t be a technical issue, it’s possible for many other applications to manage this flawlessly.
@ExcessShiv
I feel that you really are not happy with how those developers manage things.
Luckily it’s open source, so you are free to create the GUI exactly how you like it to be.
