📝 100% Templatable Lovelace Configurations

[iantrich (Ian)]

Your indentation is very wonky. This one for example:

          - hold_action: null
            action: call-service
            repeat: 100
            service: media_player.kodi_call_method
            service_data: null
            entity_id: >-
              ${vars[0] === 'Bedroom' ? 'media_player.bedroom' : vars[0] ===
              'LivingRoom' ? 'media_player.livingroom' : vars[0] === 'Kitchen' ?
              'media_player.kitchen' : 'media_player.bathroom' }
            method: Input.Up
            icon: 'mdi:arrow-up-bold-circle'
            tap_action:
              action: call-service
              service: media_player.kodi_call_method
              service_data: null
              entity_id: >-
                ${vars[0] === 'Bedroom' ? 'media_player.bedroom' : vars[0] ===
                'LivingRoom' ? 'media_player.livingroom' : vars[0] === 'Kitchen'
                ? 'media_player.kitchen' : 'media_player.bathroom' }
              method: Input.Up
              type: 'custom:button-card'

Change it to this:

          - hold_action:
              action: call-service
              repeat: 100
              service: media_player.kodi_call_method
              service_data:
                entity_id: >-
                  ${vars[0] === 'Bedroom' ? 'media_player.bedroom' : vars[0] ===
                  'LivingRoom' ? 'media_player.livingroom' : vars[0] === 'Kitchen' ?
                  'media_player.kitchen' : 'media_player.bathroom' }
                method: Input.Up
            icon: 'mdi:arrow-up-bold-circle'
            tap_action:
              action: call-service
              service: media_player.kodi_call_method
              service_data:
              entity_id: >-
                ${vars[0] === 'Bedroom' ? 'media_player.bedroom' : vars[0] ===
                'LivingRoom' ? 'media_player.livingroom' : vars[0] === 'Kitchen'
                ? 'media_player.kitchen' : 'media_player.bathroom' }
              method: Input.Up
            type: 'custom:button-card'

your hold_action criteria was not indented enough. your service_data for tap and hold was not indented enough and your type was indented too much and under the tap_action's options

[Greenhouse (Adam)]

Can somebody with some more experience/brain power please help me? I’ve tried, but so far to no avail (and lots of time wasting).

What I’m after is showing trains from leaving from certain platforms (sensor.wheretraina…) and then showing the time to train (sensor.train1…).

It would be easily achievable from a conditional card if conditions could be OR (instead of AND):

type: conditional
conditions:
  - entity: sensor.wheretraina
    state: "2114171"    
    state: "2114172"
card:
  type: entities
  entities:
    - sensor.train1

Thanks Ian for your efforts - very impressive card!

[tom_l]

This templateable card is better at changing elements of a card. Not making the whole thing disappear (not saying it can’t be done, I’m just not sure how).

What you could do is create a template binary sensor that is on if sensor.wheretraina is either of the states you posted. Then use that binary sensor in your conditional card.

[Greenhouse (Adam)]

Perfect - always now more than one way to do it!

[klogg]

Is there any way to get the last updated time of a sensor into this card?
Well, yes, I know you can but I want it in local time not UTC.
Is that possible?

Currently my best effort is:

card:
  type: custom:hui-entities-card
  title: "${'-- Trains from My Station (at ' + (states['sensor.next_train_to_stn'].last_updated).substr(11, 5) + ') --'}"

Which works but gives UTC.

[tom_l]

The EPIC Time Conversion and Manipulation Thread!

NOTE: I’ve tried to make all of these posts able to be copied as is into the template editor and work. Due to some of the examples I’ve included you will get errors when you copy this post until you make corrections and use your correct entities in those examples. I’ll annotate those sections that need to be modified in bold and with a “@@”. – The Unix Epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1 00:00:00 as_timestamp() - co…

[klogg]

Yes, I know that post and it is brilliant.
However this card uses javascript for the templates so I don’t think in this case it will help?

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

not the exact same thing, but maybe a good pointer for the js script:

Custom UI: Last time automation was triggered

Any idea how I can rectify that? Current default time zone: 'America/New_York' Local time is now: Tue Jun 5 15:05:34 EDT 2018. Universal Time is now: Tue Jun 5 19:05:34 UTC 2018.

it’s on last_triggered, but maybe you can rewrite it for last_changed?

[klogg]

@Mariusthvdb

maybe you can rewrite it for last_changed

I tried, and failed
My javascript skills weren’t good enough…

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

                - entity: sensor.abb_usage
                  name: "${'Last Update Requested' +'\xa0'.repeat(5) + Number.parseInt((new Date().getTime() - new Date(vars[10])) / 60000)+ '\xa0' + 'minutes ago'}"
                  icon: mdi:clock

Var[10]=states[‘automation.update_abb_usage’].attributes[‘last_triggered’]

[klogg]

@DavidFW1960

“${‘Last Update Requested’ +‘\xa0’.repeat(5) + Number.parseInt((new Date().getTime() - new Date(vars[10])) / 60000)+ ‘\xa0’ + ‘minutes ago’}”

Brilliant, thank you.

FWIW, I went with (but I’d never have got there without your example)

title: "${'-- Trains from My Station (at ' + Date(vars[2]).substr(16, 8) + ') --'}"

What would be really nice would be to be able to style the bit in brackets to a smaller font…
No doubt ‘there’s-a-card-for-that’!!

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

building on Auto-entities: template lightning strikes of last hour? where I try to have the wwlln sourced lighting strikes in a card, I (think I have to) turn to the templater card to even have a chance of getting where I want…

Id love to have a Map, showing the strikes of the last hour, and since that seems not to be possible yet, (need a nifty template for that I havent yet been able to construct), I want to show the strikes within a radius of 50 km. Which is easier, because the state.state of the strikes is their distance in km.

so, Id hope the templater card do do something like

${ entities.attributes.source == 'wwlln' && entities.state < 50 }

used in the Map card.

could this be done?

  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: binary_sensor.lightning_active
        state: 'on'
    card:
      type: custom:config-template-card
      card: 
        type: custom:hui-map
        title: Lightning strikes conditional template map
        entities: `${ entities.attributes.source == 'wwlln' && entities.state < 50 }`

above wont work (and I have also tried entity.state, state.state…):

states.state:

please have a look ho to create a list of entities based on the above criteria?
thanks

[TheMunchkins (Danny)]

Your card creates a lot of “render_template” and event websocket API requests, and by a lot I mean up to 4000 times in just a few seconds. This results in HA slowing down and/or crashing the UI due to exceeding the max number of pending http messages.

So if anyone sees something along the lines of
“[homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection] Client exceeded max pending messages [2]: 512”, this card may be the cause of it. However, this isn’t the only one that could cause this. Anything that creates to many http requests could.

[iantrich (Ian)]

It doesn’t use the backend to render templates?

[TheMunchkins (Danny)]

Can’t really say where exactly the problem lies, but I can confirm that those http requests are being made from your card. Removing it, removes those requests.

I activated the websocket debug logs, which confirmed those requests were coming from your card as well.

logger:
default: info
logs:
homeassistant.components.websocket_api: debug

[iantrich (Ian)]

Saying you removed my card doesn’t really mean it was my card. There are cards defined within. Off the top of my head for things I know that use the backend render are card-mod and the markdown card

sharing your configuration would help

[TheMunchkins (Danny)]

Removing it may not necessarily mean it’s your card, yea, but along with all the other pointers there’s almost no other possibility. Yes, card-mod and markdown card both do that, and both will cause the exact same problem if they create too many requests which can happen if you use the “style” option from card-mod on too many cards. Unfortunately, I no longer have the configuration I was using while this was occurring as I was forced to remove it. It’s possible that it was conflicting with card-mod which resulted in this happening.

I hope this didnt feel too personal. I just thought it was important to report this as there are a lot of integrations/plugins that unintentionally contribute to this problem without knowing. The result is a very slow running HA.

[iantrich (Ian)]

My guess would be that you didn’t restrict the config-template-card entities, which means it updates on every event and as you had it coupled with card-mod it was evaluating a lot of templates on the backend. The entities option should almost always be set, I really can’t think of a good reason that you wouldn’t and maybe it should just be required

[tom_l]

Hey Ian, can you see what have I done wrong in the following template?

I expected to see a yellow image when the wind speed was 25 knots but I got green instead. I am getting blue images below 10 Knots.

- type: 'custom:config-template-card'
  entities: sensor.bom_hobart_wind_gust_kt
  variables:
    - states['sensor.bom_hobart_wind_gust_kt'].state
  card:
    type: 'custom:hui-picture-entity-card'
    entity: sensor.bom_hobart_wind_direction
    show_name: false
    show_state: false
    state_image:
      CALM: /local/icons/wind/CALM.png 
      E: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'E-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'E-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'E-yel.png' : 'E-red.png' ) }"
      ENE: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'ENE-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'ENE-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'ENE-yel.png' : 'ENE-red.png' ) }"
      ESE: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'ESE-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'ESE-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'ESE-yel.png' : 'ESE-red.png' ) }"
      'N': "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'N-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'N-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'N-yel.png' : 'N-red.png' ) }"
      NE: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'NE-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'NE-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'NE-yel.png' : 'NE-red.png' ) }"
      NNE: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'NNE-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'NNE-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'NNE-yel.png' : 'NNE-red.png' ) }"
      NNW: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'NNW-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'NNW-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'NNW-yel.png' : 'NNW-red.png' ) }"
      NW: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'NW-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'NW-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'NW-yel.png' : 'NW-red.png' ) }"
      S: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'S-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'S-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'S-yel.png' : 'S-red.png' ) }"
      SE: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'SE-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'SE-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'SE-yel.png' : 'SE-red.png' ) }"
      SSE: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'SSE-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'SSE-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'SSE-yel.png' : 'SSE-red.png' ) }"
      SSW: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'SSW-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'SSW-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'SSW-yel.png' : 'SSW-red.png' ) }"
      SW: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'SW-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'SW-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'SW-yel.png' : 'SW-red.png' ) }"
      W: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'W-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'W-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'W-yel.png' : 'W-red.png' ) }"
      WNW: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'WNW-blu.png' : 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'WNW-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'WNW-yel.png' : 'WNw-red.png' ) }"
      WSW: "${'/local/icons/wind/' + ( vars[0] <= 10 ? 'WSW-blu.png ': 10 < vars[0] <= 20 ? 'WSW-grn.png' : 20 < vars[0] <= 30 ? 'WSW-yel.png' : 'WSw-red.png' ) }"

[JTPublic (JT)]

Wonder if your states[‘sensor.bom_hobart_wind_gust_kt’].state is returning numbers. My coloring-changing temperature template uses parseInt() or parseFloat() for numeric conditions, maybe try

parseInt(vars[0]) <= 10