5 Custom HACS Cards to Upgrade Your Home Assistant Dashboard

Want to level up your Home Assistant dashboards? 🚀
Here are 5 more awesome HACS cards that will totally transform your setup — from drag-and-drop card builders to sleek compact controls.
Let’s dive in 👇

If you’re new to HACS (Home Assistant Community Store), it’s the go-to place for installing community-made themes, integrations, and custom dashboard cards. In this video, we’re focusing on 5 new cards that can transform how your dashboards look and feel — and as always, everything you need is linked below.

To follow along, you’ll need to have HACS installed first. If you haven’t set that up yet, check out my quick setup guide here:
https://youtu.be/a4lSlN6EI04

Here’s what we’re covering in this video:

1️⃣ Ultra Card – A modular drag-and-drop card builder with a full visual editor.
2️⃣ Compact Light Card – A clean, modern light control card with theme-aware colours.
3️⃣ Mini Media Player – A customizable, minimalistic media player with TTS and grouping.
4️⃣ Double Curtain Card – Control two curtains side by side with one compact card.
5️⃣ ToDo Swipe Card – A swipe able, mobile-friendly card for managing your to-do lists.

Each card is available through HACS and can be added easily from the “Frontend” section under “Cards.”

📚 RESOURCES

Ultra Card
https://github.com/WJDDesigns/Ultra-Card

Compact Light Card
https://github.com/goggybox/compact-light-card

Mini Media Player
https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player

Double Curtain Card
https://github.com/Hugo0485/DoubleCurtainCard

ToDo Swipe Card
https://github.com/nutteloost/todo-swipe-card

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro
00:17 - What is HACS?
01:24 - Card #1: Ultra Card
05:10 - Card #2: Compact Light Card
07:08 - Card #3: Mini Media Player
09:36 - Card #4: Double Curtain Card
11:10 - Card #5: ToDo Swipe Card
12:48 - Summary & Outro

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📺 RELATED VIDEOS

How to Install HACS in Home Assistant 2025
https://youtu.be/a4lSlN6EI04

5 Frontend HACS #1
https://youtu.be/wvNfXmEyGg4

5 HACS Cards You Need
https://youtu.be/03IPN9lBEfE

5 More HACS Cards
https://youtu.be/_QqiqXw8K_Y

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