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By default, all of your devices will be visible and have a default icon determined by their domain. You can customize the look and feel of your front page by altering some of these parameters. This can be done by overriding attributes of specific entities.

homeassistant:
  name: Home
  unit_system: metric
  # etc

  customize:
    # Add an entry for each entity that you want to overwrite.
    sensor.living_room_motion:
      hidden: true
    thermostat.family_room:
      entity_picture: https://example.com/images/nest.jpg
      friendly_name: Nest
    switch.wemo_switch_1:
      friendly_name: Toaster
      entity_picture: /local/toaster.jpg
    switch.wemo_switch_2:
      friendly_name: Kitchen kettle
      icon: mdi:kettle
    switch.rfxtrx_switch:
      assumed_state: false

{% linkable_title Possible values %}

Attribute Description
friendly_name Name of the entity
hidden Set to true to hide the entity.
entity_picture Url to use as picture for entity
icon Any icon from MaterialDesignIcons.com. Prefix name with mdi:, ie mdi:home.
assumed_state For switches with an assumed state two buttons are shown (turn off, turn on) instead of a switch. By setting assumed_state to false you will get the default switch icon.
device_class Sets the class of the device, changing the device state and icon that is displayed on the UI (see below).

{% linkable_title Device Class %}

Device class is currently supported by the following platforms:

{% linkable_title Device Class %}

Device class is currently supported by the following platforms:

{% linkable_title Reloading customize %}

Home Assistant offers a service to reload the core configuration while Home Assistant is running called homeassistant/reload_core_config. This allows you to change your customize section and see it being applied without having to restart Home Assistant. To call this service, go to the service developer tool icon service developer tools, select the service homeassistant/reload_core_config and click "Call Service".

New customize information will be applied the next time the state of the entity gets updated.