While I do agree with that, I think HA doesn't let you remove it because they're working on a better default dashboard that will be auto-generated. However, I would at least want to set a custom default dashboard for every user globally so that they don't always land on "Overview".

While I do agree with that, I think HA doesn't let you remove it because they're working on a better default dashboard that will be auto-generated. However, I would at least want to set a custom default dashboard for every user globally so that they don't always land on "Overview".

The appeal of HA is that it allows you to do whatever you want. If I want to remove the Overview dashboard (because I don't want it to be the default dashboard of every new device, for instance), I should be able to do it. And if they create "a better default dashboard that will be auto-generated", I'll create a new dashboard I'll call what I want to check the auto-generated box.

But forcing my hand as if I had bought an Apple device doesn't really feel in line with HA's ethos.

That's not really a great reason. How hard would it be to just have an option in the dashboard page to mark a different dashboard as the default. Fine, make it the default in absence of another one, but does ANYONE actually keep the overview as their default? It is totally unusable after you have a couple hundred entities (which is easy to do in any reasonable sized installation).

does ANYONE actually keep the overview as their default? It is totally unusable after you have a couple hundred entities (which is easy to do in any reasonable sized installation).

With the way it is implemented, yeah, you're almost forced to keep the overview as your default. But you edit it, click the three dots and click "take control", you don't leave the Overview dashboard on "auto", it's unusable.

Yeah but you have to do that for every fucking device.
And it hides overview altogether, so you can't use it as a second dashboard.

I confirm! If you reset the cache on the device, you will have to configure it again.

And it resets it self randomly every once in a while too. Not to mention, it really hurts the wife acceptance factor when I can't just say "Install this app and log in" and have it go to the page that actually works.

It wouldn't be such a huge deal if the default overview page didn't render the HA app unusable, such that it is difficult to even make it to the settings page.

The same goes for dashboards like Maps, ToDo and Energy, which appear per default on any device and have to be disabled if you don't use them. Moreover, e.g. the Energy dashboard and the ToDo dashboard are not editable, the Map dashboard is only partially editable (no custom icon can be set) and so on.
I really don't get it why Home Assistant - a piece of software I really like btw - forces its ideas of dashboard layout on me...