Controls and screens¶

Per-domain dialogs¶

Tapping an entity opens a dialog built for that kind of device, not a generic more-info sheet.

Lights: Brightness, colour temperature, colour picker, and effects, with a Google Home-style full-height brightness control available on the button itself.
Climate: Target temperature as a slider or a dial, HVAC and preset modes, fan and swing, and an Activity tab graphing the room's temperature and humidity sensors.
Covers: Position and, where the device supports it, tilt, with a dedicated tilt slider.
Fans: Speed, oscillation, direction and preset modes.
Locks: Lock and unlock, with an optional door/contact sensor whose open state turns the card red. Buttons can be locked behind a double-tap or a PIN — see Dashboards.
Media players: Transport, volume, source and artwork.
Vacuums: Start, pause, return, fan speed, and — for Valetudo robots — a live cleaning map with per-segment cleaning.
Humidifiers: Target humidity and modes, plus auxiliary readings the integration exposes (current humidity, tank level, PM2.5, filter, defrost, ioniser, pump and so on).
Alarms: Arm home / away / night, disarm, with keypad entry.
Cameras: Live stream, full screen, with a configurable refresh interval for snapshot cameras.
Weather: Current conditions, daily and hourly forecasts, wind, and sun horizon.

Every dialog can carry quick-access buttons you add yourself, shown in its nav bar — a scene, a script, or a related entity, right next to the thing it belongs to.

History and Activity¶

Any entity's dialog can show its history, read from Home Assistant's recorder, with each change matched to who or what triggered it — an automation, a person, a device.

Global search¶

Global search reaches every entity on the server, whether or not it appears on a dashboard. Open it from the dashboard header.

An admin can hide the search action from a family member entirely, or restrict what it exposes with per-person visible/hidden domain and entity lists.

Flows¶

The flows action lists your Home Assistant automations and scripts and lets you run or toggle them. Like search, it can be hidden per person.

Dedicated screens¶

Five full screens sit beside the dashboard, each reachable from the navigation bar (their order, and whether they appear at all, is set under Settings › Dashboard).

Climate¶

Every thermostat, humidifier, air purifier and environmental sensor in the house on one screen.

Thermostats render as a dial or a card, at full, half or third width, in standard or square shape — set page-wide with per-device overrides.
Sensors are grouped into temperature, humidity, pressure, CO₂ and air quality, discovered from their device class.
Outside is its own tile: outside sensors can never be auto-discovered (nothing marks a sensor as outdoors), so you name them, or point the page at a weather.* entity and let its attributes supply the readings.
Fans can be flagged as air purifiers, since a fan carries no device class to say so.

Anything the auto-discovery gets wrong can be added, hidden, renamed, re-iconed or reordered, and there is a manual only switch that turns discovery off entirely so only your explicit choices appear.

Energy¶

A power-flow visualisation and a full set of tabs over your energy data.

Configure Home Assistant's Energy dashboard first

The single biggest thing you can do for this screen is set up Home Assistant's own Energy dashboard before using it — Settings → Dashboards → Energy in Home Assistant, where you name your grid, solar, battery, gas and water sources.

HKI 7 can then import those preferences in one step instead of asking you to identify every sensor again by hand. You get the flow diagram, costs and per-source breakdowns immediately, and they match what Home Assistant itself reports rather than being a second, slightly different guess.

Without it the screen still works — you just point it at each sensor yourself.

Import from Home Assistant. If you have configured Home Assistant's own Energy dashboard, HKI 7 can import those preferences rather than making you name every sensor again. Importing also switches off class-wide auto-discovery, so your explicit configuration is what the screen uses.
Electricity — grid import and export, per-phase power, current and voltage for a P1-style meter, and tariff-split counters.
Solar — production, last 7 days, lifetime total, and multi-entity forecasts, including Home Assistant's own solar forecast config entries.
Battery — home battery charge and flow.
Gas, Water and District heating — totals, live flow rates, and cost.
Top consumers and Device energy — individual power and energy sensors you choose to track, each addable or removable by hand.
Cost and carbon footprint where the sensors exist.

Cards can be reordered and renamed, and any card can be lifted out onto a normal dashboard page as an energy card widget.

Security¶

Doors, windows, motion, smoke, water, locks and cameras, grouped by what they are, discovered from device class and domain. Entities can be added, hidden, renamed, re-iconed and reordered, and each camera carries its own name and refresh interval.

As with the other screens, manual only turns discovery off so nothing appears unless you put it there.

Vacuum¶

Every vacuum in the house: state, battery, water and bin, controls, and live maps for Valetudo robots.

Battery¶

Every battery-powered entity, sorted by level, with a configurable low threshold. Supports Battery Notes for battery types and replacement dates, and lets you add devices the discovery missed, hide ones you do not care about, rename them, and set the order.