A ducted air conditioning dashboard

What you need

Everything below installs through HACS in a couple of minutes. Anything not listed is built into Home Assistant, and the dashboard reads your active theme.

Make it yours

Entity IDs are unique to every Home Assistant install, so the YAML ships with ours. Swap in your own values here and apply — the code below updates in place. You'll find your entity IDs under Settings → Devices & services → Entities.

Copy the YAML

Paste this into a brand new dashboard, never over a working one. Captured on Home Assistant 2026.7.1.

1. In Home Assistant, open Settings, then Dashboards.
2. Select Add dashboard and choose New dashboard from scratch.
3. Open the new dashboard, then the pencil icon to enter edit mode.
4. From the top-right menu choose Raw configuration editor.
5. Paste the code below over the contents and save. The values you applied above are already in it.

# A ducted air conditioning dashboard
# From Synced: https://synced.com.au/learn/ecosystems/home-assistant/dashboards/ducted-air-conditioning
# Captured on Home Assistant 2026.7.1
title: Air con
views:
  - title: Aircon
    path: aircon
    type: sections
    max_columns: 2
    badges:
      - type: entity
        entity: climate.home
        name: Master control
        show_name: true
        show_state: true
        state_content:
          - state
          - current_temperature
      - type: entity
        entity: weather.heathmont
        show_name: true
        show_state: true
        color: blue
      - type: entity
        entity: sensor.hue_motion_sensor_3_temperature
        show_name: true
        show_state: true
        color: amber
    sections:
      - type: grid
        column_span: 1
        cards:
          - type: heading
            heading: Whole home
            heading_style: title
            icon: mdi:air-conditioner
          - type: thermostat
            entity: climate.home
            name: Master control
            features:
              - type: climate-hvac-modes
                style: icons
                hvac_modes:
                  - cool
                  - heat
                  - fan_only
                  - auto
                  - "off"
              - type: climate-fan-modes
                style: dropdown
            grid_options:
              columns: full
              rows: 8
      - type: grid
        column_span: 1
        cards:
          - type: heading
            heading: Zones
            heading_style: title
            icon: mdi:home-thermometer
          - type: tile
            entity: climate.living
            name: Zone 1
            icon: mdi:home-thermometer
            icon_tap_action:
              action: toggle
            features:
              - type: target-temperature
            grid_options:
              columns: full
              rows: 4
          - type: tile
            entity: climate.theatre
            name: Zone 2
            icon: mdi:home-thermometer
            icon_tap_action:
              action: toggle
            features:
              - type: target-temperature
            grid_options:
              columns: 6
              rows: 4
          - type: tile
            entity: climate.bedrooms
            name: Zone 3
            icon: mdi:home-thermometer
            icon_tap_action:
              action: toggle
            features:
              - type: target-temperature
            grid_options:
              columns: 6
              rows: 4

About this dashboard

This is the panel we actually use, rebuilt as a file. It is built for an Actron Air ducted system, connected through the Actron Air integration that ships with Home Assistant, and the layout is shaped by how that hardware actually works.

A ducted system has one compressor and several zones hanging off it, and those are two different jobs. The outdoor unit decides whether the house is heating or cooling, whether it is on fan only or letting the system pick, and how hard the fan runs. A zone decides only whether it is taking any of that air, and what temperature it is aiming for. So the mode buttons and the fan speed dropdown live on the master thermostat and appear exactly once, while each zone gets a target temperature and an on or off.

That last point is worth being blunt about, because Home Assistant will happily let you build it wrong. A zone entity reports the full mode list, cool, heat, fan only, auto and off, exactly as the master does. Put a mode row on a zone tile and you get four buttons that look like independent control and are not. The hardware cannot cool one room while heating another. Our first version of this dashboard had those buttons and they were quietly misleading, so they came off. Each zone tile now carries a target temperature row and a tappable icon that toggles the zone open or closed, blue for open and grey for closed. When you open a zone it simply picks up whatever mode the master is running.

Everything on the page is built in. There are no custom cards, no card-mod, no injected CSS. That is worth saying plainly, because a lot of what looks like a custom card in a Home Assistant screenshot is really a stock card with its features turned on. The mode icons under the dial, the fan speed dropdown, the target temperature rows: all of those are features declared inside the card, not separate cards. Two card types and a heading do the whole panel.

The zones are named Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3 in the config, which is deliberate. Your zone names are yours, and the entity IDs underneath are the part you will need to change anyway. Swap the names for your rooms and point each tile at your own climate entity. One honest note on how this was built: none of the entities in the house it came from carry an area, so the cards hand-list entities rather than pulling a whole area in. If your entities are filed into areas, an area based version of the zones section is less to maintain.

The dark appearance is the Material You theme, linked above. It is applied at the profile level rather than in the dashboard, so the config below is identical whether you use it or not. On a stock Home Assistant install this dashboard works exactly the same and simply looks like stock Home Assistant.

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