Long-press (or long-click) on the "Home Assistant" title at the top of the sidebar. That brings up a dialog box in which you can hide the items you don't want to see. (It's available in user settings, too, but this is a shortcut.)
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This is so weird. I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't have a single auto-generated dashboard in my sidebar. Can anyone enlighten me?
Edit: I followed the link in the suggested fix and it appears they were already hidden. I see the extra ones you were talking about. Curious why they showed up automatically for you but were hidden for me.
They do on a new install as long as I can remember. Maybe you turned them off in Settings and forgot? I haven't seen anything that will turn them off for you, other than maybe adding something to configuration.yaml that does it.
I don't know, I've been on Home Assistant for over a decade now. I couldn't tell you everything I've done over the years.
If you're on the same install that long you might never have seen them. Iirc the only thing you'd get 10 years ago was overview and maybe Map. Now it's got a dozen stupid headings you have to turn off, it's confusing and silly. Some of them are completely empty with no obvious way of using them, like Climate.
It looks like it's the default dashboard setting. I think I tuned that off ages ago when it was first created.
I can see though, especially if you're newer to it and less comfortable with yaml due to all the UI improvements, that it's a bit of an imposition to figure out why it's happening and how to turn it off.
The fact that they keep adding stuff without making it easy to turn off is one of those little things that irk me about Home Assistant.
I know what you mean. Trying to get automations working in HA annoys me, I'm way more comfortable in Node Red. I find HA a good way to get the devices into the system and display data, then NodeRed to actually do my automations. So much more you can do in there.
On a new install specifically when you select the option to auto-generate a dashboard during setup.
To hide sidebar items in a browser you can click on the top left "Home Assistant" button or click on your username at the bottom left and select "Change the order and hide items from the sidebar" in User Settings.
good for you. :-)
Example from the forum: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/remove-energy-dashboard/910707/3
Yes, you can hide them. Nobody yet has an answer how to fully remove this ever growing bloat.
One of the answers in that thread mentions how to remove them by using a different configuration.yaml file, instead of the default_config. But you would have to manually add the other integrations that you do use so they show up, and any future ones as well, but that seems to remove them, not hide them.
While we’re at it, can we please for the love of God disable the “Overview” board? Or at least stop resetting it as the default every other day? I swear I have to reset my default dashboard every day or two, because Home Assistant is determined to use the (fucking useless, and ugly as sin) Overview board instead.
I resorted to hiding everything on the default Overview board, so now it just displays the “it looks like you don’t have any devices configured” page instead. But I only did that because the auto-generated board has every single sensor from every single device. That’s not an overview, that’s a detailed view. My custom overview board only shows the high level stuff, presented in a neat and orderly way, so I can get a quick overview of my systems at a glance. You know, like an overview is supposed to do. But Home Assistant refuses to keep that custom board set as the default, and constantly reverts back to the automatic one instead.
Hell, I opened my Home Assistant app while typing this comment out, and discovered that the default dashboard had been reset again.
Sounds like a you problem. I've had custom dashboards be the default for all my devices (Several family phones, a couple kiosks around the house) and they have never reverted to Overview. Whatever is going on in your setup isn't normal
This issue is, the default dashboard is done per client, not per user (I think they're changing this, or have done very recently??)
So if you:
- clear cookies
- reinstall the app
- clear app data
- change your instance's ip/domain
- set up a new device
then it will revert to the stock "overview" dashboard.
Of course, how often this happens depends on how often you do any of those things so for some it's not an issue, while for others it's a frequent annoyance
There is a lot of stuff in my sidebar that I don't know how to get rid of.
i think the problem with the these generated dashboards is not just unglyness but also a problem of administration. Lets say you build the craziest automations for your lights but every normal user can simply activate the lights-dashboard and turn any light on and off without any automation triggering. I have an agreement with my wife, that she does not do this, but as an admin, the pure posibilty is absolut horror 🙈
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Entities with the „visible“ attribute set to „off“ do not appear in any of the automatically populated dashboards.