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cannot modify default theme

See original GitHub issue

Home Assistant release (hass --version): 0.57.2 Python release (python3 --version): Python 3.5.4 Component/platform: frontend

Description of problem

I’d like to modify the theme. The docs suggest adding a separate one and creating an automation which selects that, but I consider this a workaround. I’d expect the following config snipped to modify the default theme:

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and steps to reproduce:

frontend:
  themes:
    default:
      primary-color: orange

instead, another theme is created, also with the name “default” (which appears two times in the theme picker).

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:6
Comments:43 (20 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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arigitcommented, Dec 11, 2019

+1 on a simpler way to setup the default (backend-preferred) theme. I am aware one can create and ad-hoc automation for this, and make a system call upon HA startup. This seems over-complicated though.

It would be much nicer to be able to set the default under the “frontend:” integration in configuration.yaml, Something like