So I’ve been working on setting things up over the last 3-4 week or so. We’ve got automation related to main bedrom, kids room, living room and the entrance. So far so good.
Up until now I’ve made new dashboards and navigated between them via the menu. But I can see that it’s a friction for wife and kids when using the companion app, because the menu is hidden. So now I’m considering taking over the responsibility for the navigation via buttons or similar inside of the dashboard.
I’ve been researching typical navigation in HA and found different examples, but I’m not quite sure which direction to go. These are the elements I’ve come across.
- Home page: little or no data shown, only buttons to go to the dashboard of each room. I’d definitely would like to start with something like that.
- I’ve seen examples of sticky menu at the bottom
- I’ve seen examples of using tabs inside a single dashboard, with sections showing according to pressed button.
To start simple my questions are:
How do you implement your house in HA? Is every room a dashboard or do you use a single dashboard (house) and then tabs at the top for each room?
If using dashboards for each room, in a room dashboard, what navigation do you prefer to include? Buttons to quickly cross navigate to the other rooms or a back button to navigate to Home page, and then go to the next room from there? The latter is easier to implement, but requires more taps. The former requires being able to show the same navigation on several dashboards, which is a challenge in itself(?)
Thank you for your input!
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