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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.
I'm presented with "Edit dashboard" instead of the "Raw configuration editor". What do I do?

This happens if you've removed the options key from your dashboard configuration.

The easiest way to fix this is to delete the dashboard and follow the steps of the Basic Setup again.

Can I get the raw YAML code which the strategy generates?

You can get the generated YAML, but NOT without "Taking Control" of the dashboard.

After setting up the strategy and options to your linking, you can follow these steps:

  1. Click the icon in the top right corner of the dashboard.
    The Raw configuration editor will open.

  2. Delete the entire content of the editor and replace it with the following code:

    strategy:
  type: custom:mushroom-strategy

  3. Click Save and exit the edit mode.

  4. Click the icon in the top right corner of the dashboard.
    The Dashboard editor will open.
  5. Click the three-dot menu in the top right corner of the editor.
  6. Select Take control.
  7. Click Take control.
    Start with an empty dashboard will not have any effect.
  8. Click Done at the top right corner of the dashboard.

You can now edit the dashboard as you would normally do with any other dashboard.

To get the YAML:

  1. Click the icon in the top right corner of the dashboard.
  2. Click the three-dot menu in the top right corner of the dashboard.
  3. Select Raw configuration editor.
How to reload the dashboard after installing a new version manually?

Standard cache clears like CTRL+F5 often fail in Home Assistant due to its reliance on Service Workers.

To ensure a clean reload, open the Developer Tools (F12 for most browsers), enable 'Disable cache' in the Network tab, and refresh the page twice to update all resources.

Don't forget to re-enable the cache again when you're finished.