Star Wars Dark Theme

Star Wars The Old Republic inspired Dark theme for Home Assistant

Screenshots

Preparation

1. Make sure that under the configuration.yaml file you have the following:

frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

2. Under the Home Assistant Config folder, create a new folder named themes
3. Restart Home assistant to apply the changes.

HACS installation

1. Go into the Community Store (HACS)
2. Search for Star Wars Dark
3. Open the theme
4. Press Install
5. Restart Home Assistant

Manual installation

1. In the Home assistant themes folder, create a file named star_wars_dark.yaml
2. In this GitHub repo, go into the themes folder, open the star_wars_dark.yaml file and copy the content
3. Paste the content in the star_wars_dark.yaml file created under your Home Assistant themes folder

(Optional) Local hosted background file (if your HA does not have internet access)

1. Add allowed external directory to your configuration.yaml

homeassistant:
  allowlist_external_dirs:
    - "/config/www"

2. Copy the star_wars_dark_bg.png from your themes folder to /www/images/
3. In the file named star_wars_dark.yaml search for card-mod-view section and replace the url with /local/images/star_wars_dark_bg.png.
4. Restart Home Assistant to apply configuration changes and to load the folder contents

Enable theme

1. Open your Home Assistant Profile
2. Under, Themes, select the new Star Wars Dark

Set theme as default for all devices

1. Open Developer Tools
2. Go to Services
3. Under Service enter frontend.set_theme
4. Under Name, enter Star Wars Dark
5. Enable Mode and set it to light
6. Click on Call Service
7. Repeat steps 1 to 6 but change the Mode to dark