Hook points into the UI about architecture

[balloob]

haha oh man, I knew you were doing crazy stuff, didn't realize you were going that deep.

I think that a lot of these things will be solved by moving to a hardcoded UI (#14):

• We can add a hook to define your own column width
• You can define your own custom components to render things such that:
• You can update group names on the fly
• You can color icons
• You can update text on buttons

And you don't have to create your own complete components either. Instead, just extend it. We can add some protected methods such that it's easier to customize things.

import HaStateLabelBadge from 'home-assistant-polymer/src/components/ha-state-label-badge.js';

class CustomStateLabelBadge extends HaStateLabelBadge {
  stateChanged() {
    super.stateChanged();
    // your custom logic
  }
}

[MartinHjelmare]

Is this still relevant after lovelace?

[balloob]

Nope. Rich customization is supported by Lovelace.