SmartBuddy Dashboard
The Dashboard is the page in HomeAssistant where all information and control elements are brought together, visualised and made available to the user. are brought together, visualised and made available to the user. Once everything is set up, it is completely sufficient in daily operation to use only the Dashboard.
Here, SmartBuddy stands out because it already has a dashboard pre-configured.
The idea behind this is to give the user an idea of what his dashboard could look like right from the start.
dashboard could look like.
It is of course up to the user to decide whether to continue to use/modify this dashboard or to create his own. or create his own.
Home page
The first page of the dashboard is the 'Home' page. From here you can directly select the subpages.
The 'Home' page also shows the persons of the household and their presence. How to make a person known to your SmartBuddy and how presence detection works can be found in the next section [Customisation].
The 'Home' page also shows when new system software is available for download. This display only appears if a higher version is available on the Internet. You only need to click on this field and you will be redirected to the 'Update' page with further information.
Home Assistant offers its own update functionality and has nothing to do with this system update. The topic is explained in more detail in the section [Update/Backup].