Month: January 2021

Home Assistant: How to add multiple themes

  1. Prepare for theme files, Put them in /themes folder as shown below I plan to use 2 themes: noctics and synthawave
home assistant theme files

2. Open configuration.yaml to edit frontend setting. We will use !include_dir_merge_named instead of !include then put the theme folder name themes then save the configuration.yaml

frontend:
themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

3. Go to Home Assistant web interface > Configuration > Server Controls

  • Press “Check configuration file” if it valid or not.
  • Then go to “Server management” section and restart server.
  • Wait for server restart for a while.

4. Look for your username at below left of screen then click to see your profile. You will have options to select theme there.

Home Assistant Theme dropdown select

5. Once you install new theme. It’s no need to restart server – just do step 4. again.

Ref: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/frontend/#defining-themes

How to change Daedalus Mainnet blockchain folder on Windows 10

If you get warning screen after launch Daedalus wallet about yout harddisk space is not enough for store blockchaing data. Pleas follow these steps:

  1. Run command prompt by right click on Windows icon on below left > run > type “cmd” (without double quote) then press enter
  2. On windows explorer. Go to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming folder. You should see a folder named ‘Daedalus Mainnet’.
    Note: YOURUSERNAME change this to your username
  3. Copy this folder to destination where you want to store it. Example E:\DaedalusMainnet
  4. Back to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ Rename “Daedalus Mainnet” to something else like “Daedalus Mainnet_original”.
  5. Back to command prompt and and type

mklink /J “C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Daedalus Mainnet” E:\DaedalusMainnet

Note: Since the path contain space like this “Daedalus Mainnet” so you have to include “…”

6. If success, go back to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming and delete “Daedalus Mainnet_original” folder to free up harddisk space.

7. Open Daedalus Wallet to check whether it work or not.