r/homeassistant • u/lordraw77 • 22h ago

Personal Setup Control panel for ha

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Old iPad transformed into a controller for ha, activated by movement (controlled with an aquara p1) 3 minute standby and charging managed with a Sonoff USB switch and an automation that controls charging and turns off the USB at 100 and reactivates it at 20

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u/Competitive_Owl_2096 22h ago

That dashboard layout is… something

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u/lordraw77 22h ago

Grid layout and buttons are made like this

type: light entity: light.parrots grid_options: rows: 4 columns: 6

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u/Substantial-Rich5703 22h ago

Downlight hacs and get the mushroom light cards, they are much easier, prettier and nicer to use than the standard light cards.

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u/lordraw77 22h ago

Do you have the name?

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u/Substantial-Rich5703 21h ago

I used chatgpt to assist me in downloading and integrating hacs. It's an add on.

On hacs it's just called mushroom cards. It will be obvious with its amount of times downloaded.

Chatgpt is helpful if you get stumped. Hated the standard light cards though,

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u/Deep_Monk5446 22h ago

Now all you need is a goodlooking dashboard /s

Nice Work!

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u/lordraw77 22h ago

It's the most complicated part, I tried two or three but to fit everything on one page this is the one that worked best for me

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u/Salt_Sorbet9350 21h ago

Just asking, is there a reason for the « only charge when at 20% battery thing »? Since it is old device isn’t it as easy to plug it and « basta »?

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u/lordraw77 21h ago

The battery still lasts almost 12 hours so, let's say I try to preserve it

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u/TroubledGeorge 18h ago

Regardless of battery life, keeping it plugged in 24/7 will cause the battery to swell. We had an iPad as a controller for our conference room at work and the battery would swell bad enough that it would lift and damage the screen.

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u/Salt_Sorbet9350 17h ago

Thank you both, nice to know as I am about to do the same kind of dashboard !

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u/OnlineIsNotAPlace 21h ago

if I could just get help editing my dash without using yaml I would put this on a samsung tablet

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u/jocke92 16h ago

I would just charge it to 80 or 90% Try the tile cards or maybe the slider-button-card found in hacs