Are there dashboards build that have decoration like our own wallpapers that rotate every once in a while, or some fun background effects? Its a large 18.5inch disllay i want to mount on a wall.
Something prebuild that we can customize ourselfs.
#Dashboards for large screens with special effects/decorative?
sterile burrow
peak plinth
Something prebuild that we can customize ourselfs.
I'll start with this first. For something pre-built, more than likely you're not going to find anything that will be a simple drop-in replacement. My dashboard is not going to have stuff as your dashboard. Minimalist UI kinda tries to do something like that but it because very difficult to tweak when you want to make changes.
Out of the box, you're going to be limited to Themes but that, primarily, is only going to handle colors and whatnot. You can use card_mod to modify your cards to make them look different but it can be a chore. Card-mod makes changes to the card's CSS. The custom:button-card has built-in styling and layout options that could be useful.
For the backgrounds, I use lovelace-animated-background which plays looped MP4s. (I got most of my videos from MIXKIT. LINK. With a little bit of work, you can design the backgrounds to change based on your weather entity or the date (useful for holidays), for example. In fact, now that I think about it, I started using this about the same time last year and started with Halloween-themed videos. I couldn't really find much for Thanksgiving and had some ready for Christmas, but I stopped working with it. Now, I just rotate through a couple of different smoke-based videos. Smoke effect over black background
sterile burrow
For the backgrounds, I use [lovelace-animated-background](<https://github.com/Sk...
That is already pretty epic.
But what would be cool is to make cards with different shapes, and drag them around.
This way we could really make something unique.
peak plinth
The "drag them around" part, I imagine, would require a huge overhaul to the way dashboards are displayed. Just the new Sections portion has been a major overhaul in design. (Before that was probably the UI Editor since before that everything had to be done in YAML.) The only thing that I can think of would be to design your own interactive webpage that can talk to HA's API to get and send information.