Once they rolled out ads on the home page (Shame. Shame. Shame.), I installed “Launcher manager” and “Wolf launcher” to give it an interface I really like. A big background picture, some large buttons for the commonly used apps, and then progressively smaller buttons as you scroll down the screen for the less commonly used features.

It broke once when an update rolled out, but since then has been running fine and I never once see the bloated monstrosity that is the default home screen.

The only qualm with my setup I have is that access to the configuration sidebar isn’t as intuitive as it was with the pre 9.0 version (which frankly I don’t remember anymore aside from the general impression). That’s a very minor price to pay to have an interface without ads.

Thanks for the response, that confirms my assumption, seems like I was configuring it right, but the behavior is not as expected.

• If HA is active/onscreen already, the command will do nothing.
• If HA is idle/offscreen, the command will bring HA to the forefront, but not change pages. (This is the state it is in after the “turn_off” sends the launcher intent.)
• If HA is off, the command will launch HA, and navgate to the correct page.

Is this all that is to be expected? or should I be able to get to the desired dashboard, from any previous screen or application state?

Thanks for the suggestions. At a quick glance, grafana looks to be perfect for the visualization aspect (at least in terms of capabilities). Glad to see there are free utilities for that and I might not have to resort to chicken scratch html/pyplot :-) I have yet to dig into influxDB still…

Deterrent is right. That graph is terrifying! I feel their frustration regarding getting data from Android apps. Part of what got me started thinking about this was when I realized that the years of data I entered into my fitness pal was suddenly locked behind a subscription service :-( Thanks for sharing!