Hi. I’m currently rebuilding my setup from scratch, moving away from my old Pi. What’s best practice these days? How would you do it? What cards are the best for the dashboard? How would you do presence detection (getting home), mqtt via ha, or stand alone?
Looking for good ideas, and possibly things to avoid.
TIA.
Good question. I was planning to start fresh as well. At least at some point. I think I’m going to first add the devices and do a better job documenting what I have, what firmware I modified how and pay attention to naming things in a coordinated manner, set the areas… And then think about what automations I need, what blueprints are available and newer methods to achieve the same thing. And throw overboard all the testing relics, HACS integrations and ESPhome configs and automations I don’t need anymore and for some reason keep around for reference. And then I’m bad at UI. I think I’d have to watch some Youtube tutorials to see how other people structure it in a sane way. I heard the bubble cards are popular these days.