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Marco Carvalho
Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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Using dashboards in Home Assistant

Using the knowledge that you have gained so far in this book, you can add devices to your Home Assistant and test them. You can also create automations, scripts, and scenes and test them. When adding devices to your home, you can manage them individually by clicking on them using the Settings | Devices & Services | Devices path. By clicking on this path, you will be able to see the device and its entities, as shown in Figure 4.9 in Chapter 4. When using this method, you must repeat it every time for each device if you want to manage its data using its entities. You should be able to access all the entities of a device you want to manage in a customized window. The good news is that you can do it using dashboards in Home Assistant.

In the next subsections, we will learn what dashboards are and how we can populate them.

Understanding and creating dashboards

Dashboards are what Home Assistant implemented to present various information from...

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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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