Frequently Asked Questions

How do I add a device or entity to an area?

You can add devices to an area by going to Settings found at the bottom of the sidebar.

1. Select Devices & services.
2. Select Devices or Entitiesat the top.
3. Choose the device or entity you wish to add to an area.
4. Select or in the top right corner.
5. Choose an area in the area field.

Warning

If you created an entity manually (in your configuration.yaml), you may need to create a unique_id before you can set an area to it.
See Home Assistant's documentation for more info about unique ids.

How do I hide entities from the Strategy?

When creating this dashboard for the first time, you might be overwhelmed by the number of entities.
To reduce the number of entities shown, you can hide these entities by following the steps below:

1. Click and hold the entity.
2. Click in the top right corner of the popup.
3. Set Visible to off.

Note

If you don't want to hide the entity from all dashboards, you can use Card Options to hide specific entities and devices.

How do I get the id of entities, devices and areas?

• Entity Id

  1. Select Settings at the bottom of the sidebar.
  2. Select Devices & services.
  3. Select Entities at the top.
  4. Choose the entity you want to get the id of.
  5. Click in the top right corner of the popup.

• Device Id

  1. Select Settings at the bottom of the sidebar.
  2. Select Devices & services.
  3. Select Devices at the top.
  4. Select the device you want to get the id of.
  5. The device id is shown as the last part of the url in the address bar. E.g.: https://.../config/devices/device/h55b6k54j76g56

• Area Id

  1. Select Settings at the bottom of the sidebar.
  2. Select Areas.
  3. Select of the area you want to get the id of.