I never asked for “Lights” or “Security” and many other boards in my sidebar. Even worse, they seem to be getting more. Home Assistant used to feel clean to me, now I get Facebook vibes and a touch of devs way overstepping.

I read the only absurd solution is per device hiding of useless unremoveable dashboards and yet find users for years now asking to remove crap-dashs for good.

I have only one user (admin) and webinterface and would never ever like to see this ugliness again. I think it is overbearing, intrusive and invasive as Home Assistant doesnt give choice anymore to the user.

How can i fully remove the dashboards Lights, Security, Climate and Energy?

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            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.

            • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              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.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        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.