Dashboard Studio 2.6.0 and Haven 2.3.0: easier to use on a phone
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Haven shows the dashboards and nothing else: no builder and no Admin screen, for admins too.
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1. On the phone, scan the QR code under **Admin → Haven app** (or tap **Download Haven** on the phone itself), open the file and allow installing apps from that source when Android asks (once).
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2. Open Haven and enter the address you use for Home Assistant. On the phone itself, **Open in Haven** fills it in.
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2. Open Haven and tap your Home Assistant under **On this network** (Haven finds it on your home Wi-Fi), or enter the address you use for it. On the phone itself, **Open in Haven** fills it in.
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3. Sign in with your own Home Assistant login, once.
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From then on Haven opens straight on your dashboard, full screen with its own icon, and keeps you signed in. It works with plain http addresses too. Kiosk mode keeps the screen on and hides Android's bars. To connect to another Home Assistant: tap the phone button in the top bar (admins) or the kiosk corner five times (everyone else), then **Change address**. Haven needs Android 7 or newer. The earlier *Dashboard Studio* Android app is replaced by Haven; you can uninstall it.
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From then on Haven opens straight on your dashboard, full screen with its own icon, and keeps you signed in. It works with plain http addresses too. Kiosk mode keeps the screen on and hides Android's bars. To add another home, such as a holiday home, or switch between them: tap the phone button in the top bar (admins) or the kiosk corner five times (everyone else), then **Homes and addresses**. An address that doesn't connect isn't kept. If connecting takes long, the loading screen offers to choose another home or address. Android's back gesture closes an open sheet first; with nothing open, it puts Haven in the background. Haven needs Android 7 or newer. The earlier *Dashboard Studio* Android app is replaced by Haven; you can uninstall it.
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- **Several homes:** under **Change address**, **Add another home** connects Haven to another Home Assistant, such as a holiday home or your parents'. Each home keeps its own sign-in; tap a home to open it, × removes it.
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- **Home screen widgets:** long-press your home screen, choose **Widgets → Haven**, and pick a light, switch, scene or thermostat. A tap does what it does on the dashboard; a thermostat gets − and + for its temperature.
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### On phones
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- **Which dashboard opens:** on a phone, Dashboard Studio opens the dashboard last used on that phone, or else the first one designed for phones (a link, the device's own dashboard or the person's dashboard still come first). It always opens on the dashboard, not the builder.
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- **Details:** tap a sensor or device for its details: what it is now, a line of the last 24 hours for sensors, and its buttons. The entity ID and attributes are under *Technical details*. Back (the gesture, or the browser's button) closes the sheet.
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- **Install as an app:** on Android, use **Haven** (see above). The phone button in the top bar explains the other options: browsers can install Dashboard Studio as a web app when Home Assistant is opened over **https** (open Dashboard Studio in its own tab first); on iPhone and iPad, apps on the home screen can't use Home Assistant's sign-in, so use the sidebar in the Home Assistant app.
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- **Shortcuts:** tick **Shortcut on the app icon** in the settings of a button, tile, light, thermostat or garage card. When Dashboard Studio is installed from the browser on Android, long-press its icon to run one straight away (up to four shortcuts; Haven and iPhones don't support this).
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- **Offline:** each device keeps the last known states of its dashboard. When the connection drops, the dashboard keeps showing them with a small note saying from when, and catches up when it reconnects.
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