Add Ability to Remove Overview Dashboard

[akropp]

While the overview dashboard can be a good start for a fresh installation, in most cases once you have built other dashboards, it is no longer needed or wanted. In addition, with a large installation, the Overview dashboard crashes the mobile client (at least on iOS) because of the number of elements. Since it is the default whenever you set up a new device or re-login, this make it very difficult to log in.

Can we have the option in the Dashboards page to either delete the Overview dashboard, or at least disable it in a way that it will no longer ever be the default?

[Nickduino]

I cannot understand why HA doesn't offer that. They effectively force you to use Overview, so you have to take control of it and edit it to make your own.

[j4n-e4t]

While I do agree with that, I think HA doesn't let you remove it because they're working on a better default dashboard that will be auto-generated. However, I would at least want to set a custom default dashboard for every user globally so that they don't always land on "Overview".

[Nickduino]

While I do agree with that, I think HA doesn't let you remove it because they're working on a better default dashboard that will be auto-generated. However, I would at least want to set a custom default dashboard for every user globally so that they don't always land on "Overview".

The appeal of HA is that it allows you to do whatever you want. If I want to remove the Overview dashboard (because I don't want it to be the default dashboard of every new device, for instance), I should be able to do it. And if they create "a better default dashboard that will be auto-generated", I'll create a new dashboard I'll call what I want to check the auto-generated box.

But forcing my hand as if I had bought an Apple device doesn't really feel in line with HA's ethos.

[marcinbauer85]

You can select another dashboard to be the default one by going to Settings / Dashboards and in the edit dialog click "SET AS DEFAULT ON THIS DEVICE". The original "Overview" dashboard will be hidden and remain dormant.

[Nickduino]

Yeah but you have to do that for every fucking device.
And it hides overview altogether, so you can't use it as a second dashboard.