Help for fresh installs & guide

[DrSpaldo]

Hi, great work on what you have done so far. I am slightly lost as to where this starts, your guide jumps a step for me. Do I run this in its own VM / LXC? Ie. I am running Home Assistant on Proxmox with a HA VM. For this, do I create say a new Debian LXC and then install as per the guide? or does this need to be all installed on the HA instance?

[shannonhochkins]

Hi, great work on what you have done so far. I am slightly lost as to where this starts, your guide jumps a step for me. Do I run this in its own VM / LXC? Ie. I am running Home Assistant on Proxmox with a HA VM. For this, do I create say a new Debian LXC and then install as per the guide? or does this need to be all installed on the HA instance?

Sorry that the setup video wasnt clesr enough! You can run this anywhere, you can host it anywhere, it has no direct dependence on HA at all other than the authentication method by either a token or login redirect, token is the easiest though!

[DrSpaldo]

Thanks, turned out the reason was I missed filling out the .env

[shannonhochkins]

Ahh that'll do it!

[johntdyer]

So, for what it's worth, I love how this thing looks. But it would really help to have more code examples to reference in the docs. For example, take a look at the media player example page: https://shannonhochkins.github.io/ha-component-kit/?path=/story/components-cards-mediaplayercard--media-player-card-groups-example. The examples are great, but they don't show the actual code required to generate them. I'm not a React developer at all, but I'm pretty good at reverse engineering things, as long as I have examples to build from. Thanks for your time, I hope this makes sense.

[shannonhochkins]

I suggest watching videos on react before diving deeply into this, hakit is a complex ecosystem that requires react knowledge!

Storybook is the name of the documentation software that generates the website, all the code for that is also in this repository

[DrSpaldo]

It’s really unfortunate that you need to be so knowledgeable to be able to use this amazingly good looking software. I’ve personally stopped trying because it looks so difficult. I hope in the future you are able to cater for the non-programmer “regular” people

[johntdyer]

FWIW @shannonhochkins I noticed you've been contributing to puck; I hadn't heard of this project before but seeing it now I am really hoping that its maybe a direction you're thinking of taking this project

[shannonhochkins]

@DrSpaldo it's the only thing I'm working on right now, and very much related @johntdyer, I am building a new piece of software that'll allow users to drag/drop/click to edit, it's very early days at the moment, it is shaping up to be something pretty special, very out of the box unlike my dashboards, I've decided to go a pre themed dashboard making everything configurable as possible.

It's something I'll share updates on maybe in a few months depending on how I go! Still a boat load of work to do :)

[DrSpaldo]

@shannonhochkins great to hear, and I really look forward to seeing how it all goes. I am super excited with your project and want to use it, I just don't have the skillset. Thank you for the work

[johntdyer]

Project sounds really interesting. Please let me know if there are any parts of it (obviously not React ;-P) that you might need some help with. I’d be happy to chip into something cool like this.