Alert auto-hide broken in Lovelace?

[Magren]

Hi all. First time poster from a man with limited programming skills
Running HA 0.87 i created a Alert to notify me if my garage door is left open. As i understand it the alert will be hidden when not triggered. My experience is that the entity Changes state to hidden but it still shows up in my card.

alert:
  garage_door:
    name: Garage is open
    entity_id: cover.wemos2_garage
    state: 'open'
    repeat:
      - 15
      - 30
      - 60
    can_acknowledge: true  # Optional, default is true
    skip_first: true  # Optional, false is the default
    notifiers:
      - maila_marcus

Screenshot from my testsetup:

[petro]

hidden does nothing in the lovelace UI. It’s remnants of the old interface that was phased out about 3 weeks ago. If you don’t want it to appear in the UI, use a filter card and place that alert in it. Filtering it out when the state is idle.

[Magren]

Thanks for the input petro!

[chairstacker]

Hi @Magren,

what did you finally do to hide the entry when the door is closed?
I’m using the filter card but it’s clumsy - it needs way more clicks if I want to turn the alert off because I know I need to keep the door open for a while.

[Magren]

On my main card i have a filter card that will only show the toggle switch when activated.
Otherwise it will show up like a white field only.

Filter card code:

entities:
  - alert.garage_door
state_filter:
  - 'on'
type: entity-filter

[chairstacker]

This seems to have the same issue as my solution with the conditional-card - the alter doesn’t show up with a toggle button, it shows up with the status that I need to click on in order to get to the toggle button.

[petro]

what do you mean when you say ‘alter’?

[chairstacker]

Don’t you love auto-correct?
It’s supposed to say “alert”.

[petro]

Well all the letters were correct! How are you using the conditional card to show an alert?

[chairstacker]

It’s not for showing the alert but trying to show the toggle button that allows me to turn the alert on and off:

- type: conditional
  show_header_toggle: false
  conditions:
    - entity: alert.garage_door_open_long
      state_not: "idle"
  card:
    type: entities
    title: Garage Door Alert
    entities:
      - alert.garage_door_open_long

It shows up in Lovelace like this:

And in order to toggle it I have to click on it to get this pop-up:

In the Legacy UI it show up directly like this:

But only if the sensor itself is off - no need for a filter of any kind.

[petro]

sounds like a bug, i’d write up the issue.

[chairstacker]

I set up a feature request to improve the behavior in general - so that it’s aligned with the Legacy UI:

Improve Alert Behavior in Lovelace

It would be great to carry the ‘out of the box’ alert behavior from the legacy interface over to Lovelace. Behavior in the legacy UI: When I add alert.garage_door_open_long to a group, it will only show up as a line item when the watched condition might actually trigger an alert, e.g. when the garage door is actually open. It does not show up when the garage door is closed - monitoring this condition and offering the option to turn the alert off doesn’t make sense. And when the al…

Might raise an issue, too - good idea!