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.

    • olympus5737@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I am such a shit developer lol. I’d love to. But I guess I’m just speaking this into the ether for some feedback for the devs. It probably doesn’t need anything drastic, just some new modern aesthetic touches.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

  • Sprawl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    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.

    • olympus5737@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      28 days ago

      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.

  • thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    You can always use the Home Assistant API to create your own UI experience. I create small HA touch panels using M5Stack Core2 devices this way.

    • Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      This.

      I dabbled too long around having it’s UI look prettier, but gave up after spending precious months. Now I can’t see a way to have it look like I want it to, and -with respect- that’s never the intention of devs to have it’s UI very customizable.

      BUT having your own UI is pretty easy if you know basic JS and HTML; that’s intentional yet kinda hidden behind all the clutter of HA. So if CSS themes won’t do it for you, you can try your chance with that.