Widgets

Widgets are Navet-owned dashboard blocks. Most are separate from provider-backed entity cards such as weather, calendar, lights, or cameras; the generic entity widget is the intentional bridge for a normalized provider entity that has no richer dedicated card.

Overview

Use widgets when you want dashboard content that belongs to Navet itself rather than to a provider entity type.

Widgets are included in dashboard export and import.

Current Widget Types

Widget	Purpose
info	compact summary cards for grouped information
rss	RSS headlines shown through Navet’s proxy
photo	rotating image frame
note	freeform text note
battery	low-battery overview
ups	UPS status overview
energy-now	live energy snapshot
media-stack	responsive media summary retained in saved and imported dashboard profiles
button	custom action button
assist	text and microphone access to a Home Assistant Assist pipeline
map	people and tracker locations
entity	generic fallback card for a normalized provider entity

What You Can Do With Widgets

Widgets support the normal dashboard editing flow:

• add them to a room or the Home overview
• move them
• resize them
• rename them
• lock them
• delete them

Sizes

Widget sizing is per widget type, not global.

Widget	Supported sizes
button, assist	tiny, extra-small, small
photo, note	small, medium, large, extra-large
info, entity	extra-small, small, medium, large
battery, ups, energy-now, media-stack, map	small, medium, large
rss	medium, large in the Add card flow

Placement

Widgets can be placed in:

• a room
• the Home overview
• the Energy section, where the chooser is limited to energy-now and the energy-metric preset of info

There are internal room IDs for special overview areas, but users do not need to manage those directly.

Limits And Notes

• Widgets are part of Navet itself, not provider-native card definitions.
• The Widgets tab offers twelve choices when Home Assistant is connected. Ten create the base info, rss, photo, note, battery, ups, energy-now, button, assist, and map types; scene and energy-metric are presets of button and info. The assist choice is hidden when no Home Assistant session is configured. Generic entity cards come from the Cards library rather than the Widgets tab. media-stack remains runtime-supported for compatible saved and imported dashboard profiles, but is intentionally hidden from the custom-widget chooser.
• RSS uses Navet’s same-origin proxy instead of direct browser fetches.
• The entity widget is a fallback for entities without a richer dedicated Navet card.
• Assist conversations and microphone audio remain in memory for the open dialog only. Dashboard persistence stores the Home Assistant provider binding and selected voice-pipeline ID, never the transcript or recorded audio.
• Supported sizes and placement depend on widget type.