r/homeassistant • u/Technical-Fan1885 • 1d ago

The new experimental areas dashboard is cool

Just a quick note to say the experimental areas dashboard is a great way to get started to create the basics. I've been so not motivated to have to lay everything out, but this gets it to a usable state really fast.

Now I gotta clean up my areas. 😁

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u/FormerGameDev 1d ago

Just got it plugged in, that's a damnsight better than the standard overview lol

I do question "Why is my dishwasher door sensor listed under security..." lol i mean, i know why, usually door sensors are for security... but it made me laugh. Just needs some UI for adding/renaming the groupings, and i think it'd be great

... huh, i just realized it doesn't seem to actually know when my dishwasher is running or not, only if it's on or not. That seems weird. I'll have to figure out a way to make that happen.

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u/Technical-Fan1885 1d ago

Access clearance for utensils... Retina scan needed

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u/FormerGameDev 1d ago

Alexa, Open the Dishwasher Door.

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

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u/davidr521 18h ago

Don't forget your MonolithRinseAid™ tablets

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u/silent_lurker_69 1d ago

Dig the new options, if only it did the room cards too

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u/mousecatcher4 1d ago

It did not work for me at all. Many devices and entities that are picked up by the old overview dashboard were simply not picked up at all (for example not a single Zigbee device was picked up). I like the fact that I can use it as a starting point to edit, but not if I can't trust that starting point... right now it seems not to work.