SOME SAY… that a bad user interface slowly eats away your brain and makes office chairs cry.
All I can say is that UE topic makes me passionate.
Compact Entity List
GOAL: display information in a more compact way. This is functional information. By default Home Assistant likes to use a lot of space. Sometimes, you don’t have a lot of space, especially on mobile devices. And sometimes, information is functional without any need to look good. (even though I don’t … read more…
Hide Entity State Icons
By default, Home Assistant adds icons to nearly all user interface components. In many occasions, icons are not needed at all. Scenario: A card with 5 counters Why would you need counter icons when the card title says “Counter” and you know what these numbers are? With Home Assistant … read more…
Homeseer 4 GUI hacks part 2
In an attempt to make the HS4 GUI somewhat usable I added some GUI hacks. This time I won’t show all code + changes in detail but I will share the code (devices.html) and images of the changes (below). NOTE: the updated HTML has comments showing what/where/why changes were made. … read more…
Homeseer 4 GUI hacks part 1
These are some of the GUI hacks I applied to Homeseer 4. “Changing the HS4 user interface? Why would you do that?“ Well, because it is horrible. The bad thing is that I have asked for many of these things multiple times and they are EXTREMELY easy to fix, especially … read more…