Using extra resources to customize your dashboard

Home Assistant allows you to customize the dashboards even more, providing extra resources that can be uploaded or installed with it. In the upcoming subsections, we will explore some of these resources so that I can show you the benefits of a well-designed dashboard.

Using the Picture Elements card

The Picture Elements card is a powerful card where you can represent the floor plan of your home, using an image in the .png format, and assign the devices you have on it. This is something I discovered recently in Home Assistant, and I did not dedicate too much time to exploring it. I will provide a quick example to you using just the floor plan of my master bedroom so that you have an idea of how you can use the card.

First, you need a floor plan of your home. Then, create a drawing or image from it. I created my master bedroom floor plan using MS Visio, but you can use another of your preference. After you have a floor plan image...