Customize the dashboard based on the physical device running HA

[fredck]

I need to be able to identify the physical device running HA (e.g. a specific phone running the companion app) so the dashboard can be customized to that device.

Use case

Display a room specific card based on the room the device is located at (ESPresence), so the user has the room controls straight when opening the app. How cool is that?!

Research so far

I've been running and inspecting the iPhone companion app using the Xcode Simulator but I couldn't find anything that's useful to identify the device.

The following would be enough for that purpose since it needs to be unique in a HA installation anyway:

Since the information is already available to the companion app, it should be theoretically cheap to expose it to the frontend. If only one would know how to do that! 😅

[fredck]

Meanwhile you may try using custom cards like state-switch, layout-card.

Thanks for the tip. Once I figure out a way to identify the device (browser_mod maybe, although it does way too much more), that's definitely the way to go ;)