Home Assistant Dashboards for Beginners! (+ my favorite custom cards)

What's up Smart Homers! I hope you enjoy this video - it's the second one in my @home_assistant Basics series. I'm hoping that this one helps you decide to use #HomeAssistant and get started with #dashboards! This open-source software will change your definition of #smarthome! Thanks for watching!

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Card-Mod: https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-card-mod

Swipe card: https://github.com/bramkragten/swipe-card

Button Card: https://github.com/custom-cards/button-card

Mini Graph Card: https://github.com/kalkih/mini-graph-card

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Dashboard Basics
02:00 Creating a new dashboard
03:38 Views
05:03 Cards
07:46 Badges
08:17 Next-Level Dashboarding
10:33 My favorite custom cards and how I use them!
15:56 What else should I cover?

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Intro/Outro Music: MDK - Press Start
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