Home Dashboard: Overview

If you create a new dashboard in Home Assistant under Settings / Dashboards, you can choose between an empty or an automatically generated default dashboard:

The dashboards can of course be created and customized by yourself.

the display modules are called "Cards" in Home Assistant:

Menu and additional dashboards

In addition to the standard menu items, additional menu items appear for certain integrations. Furthermore, additional dashboards can be created and made available in the menu.

HACS: Must-have frontend packages.

For HACS integration, see: HomeAssistant Integrations. Plotly Graph Card is a definite must-have:

Plotly Graph Card

Since Plotly Graph doesn't necessarily score points visually with the default settings, I had underestimated the card for a long time. But with the right parameters, you can create really beautiful charts. Plotly is a worthy replacement for other graph cards such as"apexcharts-card" or the "history-explorer-card". The highlights of Plotly are its intuitive scroll and zoom function, as well as the countless possibilities to customize the charts as desired:

For my use cases, Plotly Graph can replace Grafana and an InfluxDB. At this point just have a look at the page again: I'll try to collect a few examples. If you want to customize the layout of certain cards, you can use lovelance-card-mod:

lovelance-card-mod

With "lovelance-card-mod" elements in Home Assistant can be customized via CCS styles:

Potential for improvement