The hardest thing with any dashboard calendar is making it feel like a proper app instead of a flat list of text, and version 5.0.0 of Calendar Card Pro goes straight at that problem. Smart-Live adds a grid view and a toolbar to the card, and calls the toolbar the favorite new part because it makes the card look like a calendar app. From the walkthrough, that seems like a fair judgment.
Putting it on your own dashboard looks straightforward. The card installs through HACS and lives in a GitHub repository with roughly 1,200 stars. The toolbar and tap-to-open are switched off by default, and they get turned on in the editor under Card & Header and Actions & Refresh. Release notes list the few defaults that changed, so people upgrading should check them.
The details are what stand out. The grid view lays days side by side with all-day events on top, in the style of week views in Google or Apple Calendar, and all-day events also appear as multi-day banners above the time grid. There are three view modes: list, columns, and grid. Color-coded filter pills toggle individual calendars and family members, identical events from several family members can merge into one block with combined avatars, and round avatar icons can be linked from the local /www/ directory. Rules can rewrite event titles to condense detailed entries, birthdays with a birth year get automated age calculation, and tapping an event opens Home Assistant's own event dialog.
The example setup runs on a 1280x800 kitchen wall tablet tracking family schedules, waste collection, birthdays, and appointments, and a guide documents that family calendar configuration.
One thing is still open: custom buttons on the toolbar or calendar are not yet supported. Whether a requested back button should return to the previous dashboard page or follow a custom navigation path is undecided, though work on custom buttons is planned for the coming days.
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