#Devices and Entities

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bronze flax
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I just linked my Lutron Homeworks system with HA, and it exposed around 1-200 devices and 600+ entities for all the different rooms

I am pretty new to HA, so i guess my question is, which of those things will i typically want to add to my dashboard/ rooms (both devices and entities?)? It feels like a stupid question but there are so many options, i'm not sure of the strategy on where to start. I also have to go round the rooms making sure each one works.

Make a spreadsheet and tick them off? make the rooms first in HA? someone giving me a brief strategy would be great

half zephyr
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I agree it's a bit confusing with too much information available...

Personally I started with something I was interested - adding temperature of each room as a list of entities and a graph.

Then added another tab where I was able the control lights of each room.

Then one page for weather things, one for music/tv etc.

It develops slowly. Now as I have lots of automation based on electricity price and room temperatures, I'm actually not interested in seeing separate room temperatures anymore - even that was my initial interest in HA.

So just start with something and see what you are interested in.

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Latest HA update introduced the area based dashboard, you can get some ideas from there to start grouping your things.

https://www.maison-et-domotique.com/en/160863-home-assistant-2025-4-the-room-based-dashboard-that-will-transform-your-smart-home-experience/

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bronze flax
undone rune
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The beauty of Home Assistant is that it exposes so much to you. The hard part is that it exposes so much to you. One device I recently added has 78 entities exposed. Focus on what you actually need to see and access. I ran across a video recently that while showing some advanced ideas, breaks down dashboard design to a handful of rules to get what you need out of those entities.