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Lovelace Prerequisites

The VA dashboard and views are built using several great frontend Lovelace cards and utilities. These are easily installed via HACS. These must be installed prior to configuring the dashboard and views for use with VA.

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Detailed install video: https://youtu.be/TIE-IgPEp8U

View Assist required Lovelace cards and tools:

  • layout-card
  • card-mod
  • button-card

For each of the three listed above do this:

  • Open HACS
  • Go to Frontend
  • Click '+ Explore and Download Repositories'
  • Search for the card to install using the name above
  • Click 'Download' and 'Download' again
  • Allow the reload when prompted

See the video for checking if all resources are loaded correctly. This should happen automatic but if you run into issues you will want to check these resources.