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Getting Started

This is a resource for those who wants to take their Metro UI experience to the next level.

Now that you have installed the theme, while everything looks awesome, the dashboard does not look exactly like Live Tiles. Getting there requires more than simple theming, but extensive customizations of your Dashboard.

To do so, you should know how to do these:

• Edit YAML files in the Home Assistant Dashboard (a.k.a. Lovelace), which can be accessed in the built-in code editor of every card of the dashboard.
• Install frontend modules for the Dashboard, either manually or through HACS.

The frontend modules used most often are:

• button-card
• layout-card
• card-mod
• swipe-card

The following are also used sometimes:

• mini-graph-card
• decluttering-card
• Mushroom Cards
• apexcharts-card
• light-entity-card
• auto-entities
• browser-mod

Once you installed the frontend modules, you can proceed to the next steps.

Table of Contents

• Attaching Templates to Dashboard
• Creating your first button-card from Scratch
• Card Templates Reference
• Mastering the layout-card grid