1. Get Familiar with the Home Assistant User Interface
Overview
New to Home Assistant? Use this guide a simple wizard to understand some basics to the backend user interface.
Basic Features
- Overview (aka Lovelace Dashboard)
- This is where you will eventually create all of your toggles and view all your custom integrations.
- You can create multiple dashboards that are user specific.
- Each dashboard uses something called "Cards".
- Example:
- Further Reading: Official Documentation
- Logbook
- This page is a log for all of your entities that are hooked up to your hub. The logbook keeps track of every event change per entity.
- History
- This page is a visual representation of all of your entities in a timeline format.
- Supervisor
- Dashboard
- This is a list of add-ons that are currently installed.
- Add-on Store
- This is a list of add-on software components to work right out of the box with Home Assistant with little to no configuration.
- Snapshots
- Snapshots can be very useful. You can create a snapshot in time before you upgrade an add-on or change a configuration file. Create a snapshot and then after it is created, click it and see the types of things you can restore from the snapshot.
- You can also download these configurations locally. This allows you to restore your entire customer configuration on a brand new Home Automation installation.
- System
- A simple interface that gives you details about your current system.
- Dashboard
- Configurations (covering only the basics)
- Integrations
- Integrations
- Devices
- Entities
- Areas
- General
- General
- General server configuration
- Server Controls
- Configuration validation
- This is great tool that validates your current congiration.yaml file
- This will be explained more in the following "Getting Started" tutorials
- Server management
- Configuration validation
- Logs
- Check this periodically to see if there are any issues with your installation. You can Google the error or search in our forums for help.
- Info
- This is a basic stats page for your install.
- This can be a great resource to jump straight into the documentation of all of your integrations.
- General
- Integrations
- Notifications
- A simple notification panel that lets you know if a new device has been connected to if there is an error with a configuration.
- Your User Profile
- This is a self explainitoy profile editor. You may adjust the preferences that best fit your needs.
Advanced Features
- Developer Tools
- States
- Services
- Template
- Events
- Configuration
- Blueprints
- Automation
- Scenes
- Scripts
- helpers
- Tags
- People
- Zones
- Users
- Customizations
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