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Home Assistant 2026.1: Home is where the dashboard is 🥂 (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 2 days ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For me I've experimented with restricted cards. For example, I have essentially a collapsed menu of controls for my PC, accessible only when a switch is toggled on, and the card with the switch is only visible to me.

    - type: conditional
      conditions:
        - condition: user
          users:
            - 9ecc550a1dc14e0a98071750a1673abc
      card:
        type: entities
        entities:
          - entity: switch.pc_admin_controls
            toggle: true
    - type: conditional
      conditions:
        - entity: switch.pc_admin_controls
          state_not: "off"
      card:
        type: grid
        columns: 4

(Ignore that I haven't fixed the yellow warning entities yet lol)

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

That's a good solution. What is your PC controls yaml if it isn't too private?

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But sorry, did you mean the whole controls/sensors section?

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sorry, that would help wouldn't it aha
In templatesensors.yaml:

  - switch:
      unique_id: pc_admin_controls
      name: Admin Controls
      icon: mdi:shield-crown-outline
      turn_on: []
      turn_off: []

I made it a while ago. I believe it could also be made in helpers UI now, in Settings > Devices and Services > Helpers > Create Helper > Toggle, and setting a name and icon, and saving. It'll be input_boolean.switch_name and is functionally the same, as my conditional cards do the actions

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I was just curious what functions you were running on the PC that you wanted to control via HA.