Customizing your dashboards

In this section, we will explore one of the most fun activities in this book, which is to customize some dashboards in Home Assistant. The dashboards will be where you will interface with your home, controlling actuators and verifying the status of the sensors, so this will need to be somewhat easy for you to access and manage. The views will be where you can see the cards and badges.

I will provide you with three main approaches to configuring your dashboards with different cards so that you can have an overview of the possibilities that can be used to interface with your home. These approaches are as follows:

• By home dependencies: The by home dependencies dashboard approach will group devices and entities based on the dependencies of my home. Currently, I have eight dependencies with devices installed, so we will explore different cards that can better be reshown by this configuration.
• By device type: The by device type dashboard approach...