You can bring them up instantly with F12 ( F4 on newer keyboards), and dismiss them all just as easily. On the whole, it’s nice to have those widgets hidden away on the Dashboard. media_player.massive_sony (4x1), person.simon, input_boolean.sunrise_enabled, input_boolean.sunrise_weekend, input_datetime.The Mac’s Dashboard is a great idea: a separate work area where you can store mini-applications called widgets that can do all sorts of wonderful things, from telling you the current weather, news and stock prices through to giving you calculators, translation tools and games. scene_downstairs_on(3x1), scene_downstairs_cooking, scene_downstairs_dinner_party, scene_downstairs_movie, scene_downstairs_romance, scene_downstairs_work

scene.upstairs_on(3x1), scene.upstairs_wake, scene.upstairs_music, scene.upstairs_editing, scene.upstairs_romance, scene.upstairs_morning sensor.humiditydownstairs, sensor.humidityupstairs clock.clock(2x2), sensor.temperaturedownstairs, sensor.temperatureupstairs,switch.heatdownstairs(1x2), switch.heatupstairs(1x2), switch.ac(1x2), switch.fan(1x2) Then from the add-on store, search for appdaemon and click the add-on. Go ahead and click the supervisor (or hass.io on older systems) option on the sidebar. At the time of writing the latest version is Appdaemon 4 but you can go ahead and install the latest version.

The Home Assistant Dashboard is part of the Appdaemon add-on, therefore we must first install it. I prefer to use Sublime on the Mac, but for Windows users you want to check out Notepad++. Alternatively you can use a text editor of your choice if you are familiar with this method. You will also need to have the file editor installed and be familiar with editing YAML files. If you are new to Home Assistant or you are not yet familiar with editing YAML files then you should definitely check out my tutorials on automation and scripts first. I would also recommend that you have some scenes, automations and/or scripts functioning as preferred. You will need Home Assistant setup and running as well as your devices configured. If you don’t already have hardware, perhaps check out the Raspberry Pi and official touch screen display. Once installed you can convert any device with a web browser into a Home Assistant dashboard, although it works best with touch display devices.

In this tutorial we will cover all of the steps necessary to get HADashboard up and running. If you are looking to convert a tablet or Raspberry Pi into a super-cool dashboard controller for Home Assistant then you have come to the right place!

Mac dashboard widgets still work