Adding unit to attribute show on entity card in lovelace

[Jires96]

Hi,

Anyone know if there is a possibility to add a unit of measurement to an attribute show on entities cards in lovelace?

I have an Entities card, which shows different utility meters, and I would like to show last_period attribute value from utility meter on it. It’s showing the correct value, but without unit.
I’ve tried: unit: , unit_of_measurement: but none of them works.
Alternativly, maybe attribute last_period from utility meter can be customized to add units there, but I cannot find any documentation how to customize an attribute. It looks like that customization corresponds to entity value only and not attributes.

There is how it looks like:

There is a part of code for this:

 - type: entities
    entities:
      - entity: sensor.pv_money_saved_today
        icon: mdi:currency-eur-off
        secondary_info: none
      - entity: sensor.grid_energy_cost_today
        icon: mdi:currency-eur
      - entity: sensor.pv_money_saved_today
        type: attribute
        attribute: last_period
        name: PV Money saved - Yesterday
        icon: mdi:currency-eur-off
        secondary_info: none
        unit: "DKK" ### not working###

[eggman (bertie basset)]

try

suffix: "DKK"

Entities Card - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)

[Ars4l4n (Arsalan)]

That does nothing for me, even upon clicking “Save”.

[beecho01 (James Beeching)]

I think here you need to use an attribute to show a suffix as documented here: Entities card - Home Assistant

type: entities
entities:
  - entitiy: sensor.wie_lang_zuletzt_geschalfen
    attribute: attribute_name_here
    icon: mdi:sleep
    secondary_info: none
    suffix: h

Hope that helps!

[Ars4l4n (Arsalan)]

Am I supposed to enter the name of the actual unit attribute?
Either way, it doesn’t work.

[beecho01 (James Beeching)]

As the unit is not shown as an attribute you may need to use something like ‘lovelace-template-entity-row’ from the HACS store. Information on how to install is here: GitHub - thomasloven/lovelace-template-entity-row: 🔹 Display whatever you want in an entities card row.

Then you could try something like:

entities:
  - type: 'custom:template-entity-row'
    entity: sensor.wie_lang_zuletzt_geschalfen
    state: |
      [[[
        return entity.state + ' h';
      ]]]

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@Ars4l4n

Either way, it doesn’t work.

Because you have not specified a proper 'type: attribute" here

[Ars4l4n (Arsalan)]

Like this?

That just throws an error.

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@Ars4l4n

That just throws an error.

Because you specified an attribute - but forgot to specify an entity.

[Ars4l4n (Arsalan)]

I’m confused. Does - entitiy: sensor.wie_lang_zuletzt_geschalfen not count as specifying an entity?

@beecho01
With the custom component it worked like this:

type: entities
entities:
  - type: 'custom:template-entity-row'
    entity: sensor.wie_lang_zuletzt_geschlafen
    state: "{{states('sensor.wie_lang_zuletzt_geschlafen')}} h"

Don’t know how to do the conversion though, as the time is shown as 6,81 h rather than 6:48 h.

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@Ars4l4n

not count as specifying an entity?

It does count - but you did not specify an entity for THAT particular row.
Check this:

Every “-” describes a “row”:

• 1st row - shows an entity’s state
• 2nd row - shows an entity’s attribute