The Best Home Assistant Dashboards (for Beginners)

In this 9th video in the getting started series, I look at how to create your own user friendly Home Assistant dashboard. Home Assistant creates its own dashboard for you as you start to add devices. However, this dashboard isn’t very friendly to use. So in this video I take you through how to create your own, easy to use, dashboard that you and your family will love.

If you want to start building your own Smart Home then you have come to the right place.
See my Getting started playlist for a full getting started guide.

In these videos I’ll be walking you through how to build your own start home using Home Assistant. This series of videos starts with how to get Home Assistant up and running using Home Assistant Green. Then moves on to getting the basics installed on Home Assistant and then finally adding your own smart products and building automations and dashboards.

GETTING STARTED WITH HOME ASSISTANT VIDEO SERIES
STEP 1: Getting Started with Home Assistant

STEP 2: Home Assistant Automated Backups (inc. How to setup Nabu Casa for remote access in HA at 6:11secs – see chapters)

STEP 3: Installing Home Assistant Connect, adding devices and creating your first automation

STEP 4: MUST HAVE! Home Assistant HACS Add-ons and Integrations

STEP 5: How to Secure Home Assistant using Multi factor Authentication (MFA)

STEP 6a: Use Google to Control Home Assistant Managed Devices

STEP 6b: How can I Control my Home Assistant Smart Home using Alexa?

STEP 7 Low Battery and Unavailable device notifications in Home Assistant

🎥 VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Video Intro
01:07 – A quick look at out of the box Dashboard (what you get with Home Assistant)
01:43 – Create a Home Assistant Dashboard based on Areas (Rooms)
03:31 – Compare Out of the Box Dashboard with the new Areas based Home Assistant Dashboard
07:18 – Updating the new Home Assistant Dashboard
14:10 – Adding a Home page to your Dashboard (setting up the main dashboard)
19:14 – Adding Badges to Home Assistant Dashboards
22:40 – Adding presence information to the Home Assistant Dashboard
25:03 – Setting your new Home Dashboard as the default (so when you open the HA app you go straight to your new Dashboard Home page)
25:35 – Summary and Thanks….
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