Alert auto-hide broken in Lovelace?

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Hi all. First time poster from a man with limited programming skills :wink:
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:

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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.

3

Thanks for the input petro!

4

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.

5

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
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6

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.

7

what do you mean when you say ‘alter’?

8

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

9

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

10

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:
image

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

In the Legacy UI it show up directly like this:
image
But only if the sensor itself is off - no need for a filter of any kind.

11

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

12

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

Might raise an issue, too - good idea!