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[cunning mirage]

That doesn't work when using this one... I'd have to "Take control"

And if I wanted to take control...

This dashboard is currently being maintained by Home Assistant. It is automatically updated when new entities or dashboard components become available. If you take control, this dashboard will no longer be automatically updated.

[woeful remnant]

i build my dashboards from ground up

it takes a bit of time (not as much now sections exists) but its really worth it i think

[cunning mirage]

thing is, I want there to be "room" dashboards that are maintained by HA. But like for my room, my watch and phone battery being on that dashboard would make sense

[woeful remnant]

you can build different views for each room. it does mean you have to add new stuff manually but thats not a big concern to me

[cunning mirage]

yeah, I'd rather have it automated is all

[woeful remnant]

this is my main dashboard

kitchen tablet has this

[cunning mirage]

for more advanced stuff, sure, that can go into manual dashboards, but for the room ones, I want automation

[woeful remnant]

fair enough. i like manually getting it the way i like it

[cunning mirage]

like I had to create a manual dashboard for that, but since they're listed as in my room, and my bedroom dashboard is automated, I feel like that should show up in my room's dashboard

Maybe not that design specifically, but at least the data from them should show up in the automated dashboard

[woeful remnant]

you could create a helper that mirrors the battery state then assign that helper to the room

not sure how it would show up with the automated stuff but i imagine it would appear somehow

[cunning mirage]

dunno what helper I need for that

[woeful remnant]

create a template helper

{{ states('number.template_battery_slider_mk_phone') }}

replace the entity with the correct one for your battery entity

[cunning mirage]

P8P Battery Level etc

[woeful remnant]

mine in this case is actually a slider helper because i am doing some strange stuff to get bubble card to work the way i want

go into entity settings and copy the entity id

will be sensor.something

[cunning mirage]

So would it be {{ states('sensor.pixel_8_pro_battery_level') }}?

[woeful remnant]

{{ states('sensor.pixel_8_pro_battery_level') }}

yeah

[cunning mirage]

hmm, I don't need that slider, just the text

[woeful remnant]

yeah template a sensor

i do a slider to get the fill working on bubble

but a normal sensor is fine

[cunning mirage]

yep, that's working great 😄

[woeful remnant]

we can call that a win 🙂

[woeful remnant]

nice, helpers are awesome

jinja2 can be a bit awkward at times but in general you can do most things you would want to do

[cunning mirage]

Looking at it, you can set up the sensors from the templates... Nice

and by that, I mean show up in sensors

[woeful remnant]

yeah if you assign it to the device it appears on the device page

i currently have 104 helpers 😛

[cunning mirage]

but this data would be so helpful. Especially if I can start getting this internet facing via a VPN and stuff

[woeful remnant]

this is where building the dashboard yourself comes in as you can display what you want where you want

[cunning mirage]

For more advanced stuff for sure

[woeful remnant]

yeah it depends on how clever you want to be with it

[cunning mirage]

like maps I could see being very useful for example. Not gonna share a screenshot of that in action though as I don't wanna doxx myself

[woeful remnant]

yup

easy way to get remote is the nabu casa subscription. but you can do it free too

[cunning mirage]

and like if we got smart radiator valves, I could create an action that "when a TRV changes temperature, set the boiler to the highest TRV value"

[cunning mirage]

I'm gonna get Google Assistant working without Nabu Casa too...

I also plan to build an LLM into it as well for handling voice

[woeful remnant]

i am hoping to move to opensource voice stuff soon. when the official voice hardware drops

llm would be nice but the server i would use for it currently has only a 1650 super so that will need to be upgraded before i try

[cunning mirage]

my old PC has a GTX 760 in it... for testing I'll use that though

[woeful remnant]

the memory on the card is thee main bottleneck

[cunning mirage]

When it goes from testing to live though, I'm gonna get at the very least a 3060

my main PC has a 3070 in it, so potentially I could offload to that for testing as well

[woeful remnant]

yeah i have a 3070 in my desktop but with only 8gb of graphics memory it will be a bit limited in models

i am keeping an eye on ebay to see if i can snipe a nvidia tesla p40 or something if one appears at a decent price

sometimes a few of them appear cheap when a company upgrades and dumps a load

going a bit older on the gpu front to get more memory can have its advantages

[cunning mirage]

if I got one, that could be great. But 3770K with Tesla P60 🤣

[woeful remnant]

can keep an eye for 2080ti too some of those have 22gb of memory

with the 50 series cards incoming a few of those might be dumped from the consumer market too

my brother in law has a 3090 with 24gb that he said he wants to upgrade next year. so i might see if i can convince him to let me repurpose it

i am in no major hurry. i have some other wishlist stuff to get before then really but if a good deal lands in my lap ill have a go

[cunning mirage]

hmm, looks to be some nice deals on tesla cards

but not in a hurry

[woeful remnant]

keep in mind that they dont work out the box in all motherboards. i cant remember why but something to look up

gpu with no output port is a non standard thing i guess. specially if your not running a server board

[cunning mirage]

hmm, I think for the Nest displays, we'll use the Google Assistant and use the Google provided views, but for the tablets, definitely will get my parents rigged up for Home Assistant

[woeful remnant]

this is my "tempory solution"

nothing more permanent than a tempory solution right?

i have plans for a rpi and screen built set up in a nicer way but i have too many projects on the go to replace something that works currently

[cunning mirage]

ah nah, for me, it'll be on our tablets, rather than having dashboards visible around the house

[woeful remnant]

can set up esppressence so it knows which room its in and shows the right dashboard

so much fun to be had with HA 😛

[cunning mirage]

Oh no, I won't have them visible around the house

Rather, my parents have a tablet each already, and I've got my Chromebook (plan to get an iPad Air though), and we'll use those to access the dashboard around the house

[woeful remnant]

yeah but you can have it so if they open it in the bedroom it opens the bedroom dashboard and if they walk into the kitchen and open it then the kitchen dashboard comes up

[cunning mirage]

potentially... dunno how I'd do that though

[woeful remnant]

you put some esp32's about the place and they use BLE to track where the devices are based upon signal strenth

[cunning mirage]

hmm... dunno if parents would be OK with that