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Is there a way to remove the autopopulated dashboards from the sidebar? Not per device. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 days ago by usernames@lemmy.ca to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I never asked for "Lights" or "Security" and many other boards in my sidebar. Even worse, they seem to be getting more. Home Assistant used to feel clean to me, now I get Facebook vibes and a touch of devs way overstepping.

I read the only absurd solution is per device hiding of useless unremoveable dashboards and yet find users for years now asking to remove crap-dashs for good.

I have only one user (admin) and webinterface and would never ever like to see this ugliness again. I think it is overbearing, intrusive and invasive as Home Assistant doesnt give choice anymore to the user.

How can i fully remove the dashboards Lights, Security, Climate and Energy?

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

While we’re at it, can we please for the love of God disable the “Overview” board? Or at least stop resetting it as the default every other day? I swear I have to reset my default dashboard every day or two, because Home Assistant is determined to use the (fucking useless, and ugly as sin) Overview board instead.

I resorted to hiding everything on the default Overview board, so now it just displays the “it looks like you don’t have any devices configured” page instead. But I only did that because the auto-generated board has every single sensor from every single device. That’s not an overview, that’s a detailed view. My custom overview board only shows the high level stuff, presented in a neat and orderly way, so I can get a quick overview of my systems at a glance. You know, like an overview is supposed to do. But Home Assistant refuses to keep that custom board set as the default, and constantly reverts back to the automatic one instead.

Hell, I opened my Home Assistant app while typing this comment out, and discovered that the default dashboard had been reset again.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a you problem. I've had custom dashboards be the default for all my devices (Several family phones, a couple kiosks around the house) and they have never reverted to Overview. Whatever is going on in your setup isn't normal

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This issue is, the default dashboard is done per client, not per user (I think they're changing this, or have done very recently??)

So if you:

clear cookies
reinstall the app
clear app data
change your instance's ip/domain
set up a new device

then it will revert to the stock "overview" dashboard.

Of course, how often this happens depends on how often you do any of those things so for some it's not an issue, while for others it's a frequent annoyance