🔹 Auto-entities - Automatically fill cards with entities

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

@stephanschleichstr13 not sure why you’re tagging me, but you are missing a comma at the end of the name line

[stephanschleichstr13]

sorry for that, i tagged you because i saw it in your example
The comma fixed it thank you.

[liamgallagher]

Pulling my hair out a bit but think I may be missing something obvious.

I’m trying to get a card that functions as follows:

A vertical stack containing a mushroom title card and an auto-entities card. When the auto-entities card is empty, the whole vertical stack should be hidden.

Any ideas as to how I can achieve this?

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

Possible solutions:

1. Use a “template” option which contains a code for that mushroom card + code for a card with generated list. (could be rather cumbersome)
2. Use card-mod to hide the whole stack: if list is empty → hide.

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

@liamgallagher

A vertical stack containing a mushroom title card and an auto-entities card. When the auto-entities card is empty, the whole vertical stack should be hidden.

Any ideas as to how I can achieve this?

depending on your auto-entities include filter/template, my suggestion would be to use a type: conditional and show/hide the stack based on that condition.

if you’d provide us with something to go on (what is your include filter) , we could actually help you

[liamgallagher]

Yep apologies @Mariusthvdb I was a bit vague.

This is the card I have at the moment which shows lights that are on in the office:

type: vertical-stack
cards:
  - type: custom:mushroom-title-card
    subtitle: Office
  - type: custom:auto-entities
    filter:
      include:
        - domain: light
          area: office
          state: 'on'
          options:
            tap_action:
              action: toggle
            type: glance
            entities:
              - this.entity_id
      exclude: []
    show_empty: false
    card:
      show_name: true
      show_icon: true
      show_state: true
      type: glance
      columns: 2

It returns a card that looks like this:

So I would like to hide the whole card including the subtitle.

My difficulty with your suggestion is that I don’t know what the condition would be. I suppose I could count the entities returned by my filter and save them to a helper, which would then be referenced by a conditional card?

Perhaps I’m overcomplicating it with the vertical stack and can add a customisable title some other way?

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

@liamgallagher

domain: light
          area: office
          state: 'on'

this would be the template for the card: lights in the office are on.

{{area_entities('office')
  |select('match','light')
  |select('is_state','on')|list}}

You might even have a light.office without knowing it. If not, it’s easily created either as a template entity (see Ildar suggestion) or as a binary. Or a light even.

Ofc I can not comment on this being a good solution or not. If it is what you want, then just make it. simple as that

you mean something like this?:

again, that is possible yes, and requires some templating in JavaScript (as this is a custom:button-card).

In the end it only depends on what you want.

[liamgallagher]

with your help I landed on this configuration which works exactly as I hoped

type: vertical-stack
cards:
  - type: custom:mushroom-title-card
    subtitle: Office
  - type: custom:auto-entities
    filter:
      include:
        - domain: light
          area: office
          state: 'on'
          options:
            tap_action:
              action: toggle
            type: glance
            entities:
              - this.entity_id
      exclude: []
    show_empty: true
    card:
      type: custom:layout-card
      layout: custom:vertical-layout
visibility:
  - condition: template
    value_template: >
      {{ (area_entities('office') | select('match','light') |
      select('is_state','on') | list) | length > 0 }}
    state: 'True'

thank you!

[fusterclucker (Jeff)]

I really want the Mushroom Chips card to work for scenes. Now that we can use sections to filter for rooms I am not going to bother with using the selector like I was trying to do when I asked about this last year.

Here is the code I have:

type: custom:auto-entities
filter:
  include:
    - domain: scene
      area: Living room
  exclude: []
sort:
  method: friendly_name
card:
  type: custom:mushroom-chips-card
show_empty: true
card_param: chips

What am I missing for this to work?

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

try:

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: custom:mushroom-chips-card
filter:
  include:
    - domain: scene
      area: dorm # replace with your area id
      options:
        type: light
card_param: chips
sort:
  method: friendly_name

I admit this was a terrible thing to test, and it seems to suffer the same lag as I experience using the new label option. Practically unusable.

@fusterclucker

What am I missing for this to work?

However, I believe you should add the options: field with the type.

it will end up like this:

so not yet card_modded, or even repeating the icons I have customized for the scenes…

which probably is a mushroom bug, as the icons are set using core customize, and should show like this:

[cloudbr34k (Apples)]

is there a way to show the Device names per area? not entities by the actual device name? Im trying to use the new labels option in the drop down but nothing i type is working?

[petro]

post what you’ve tried, and post screenshots of the name you want to show.

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

be careful to use the new label option, it is a real dashboard killer.
If you want to use labels, you’re better off using them in a template filter

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@cloudbr34k

to show the Device names per area? not entities by the actual device name? I

There is no card for displaying a device.
You may only list devices in markdown (w/o auto-entities).
Kind of this (could be optimized for sure):

{% for AREA_ID in areas() -%}
  {%- if area_devices(AREA_ID) |count > 0 -%}
    Area: {{area_name(AREA_ID)}}
    {% for DEVICE_ID in area_devices(AREA_ID) -%}
      {{device_attr(DEVICE_ID,'name')}}
    {% endfor %}
  {% endif -%}
{%- endfor %}

[cloudbr34k (Apples)]

yeah ok i got that already, just checking, thanks for the reply

[fusterclucker (Jeff)]

That did not work, but good news! ScottG on the discord helped me work through the options to get a working version! For all those struggling to get Auto Entities to work with Mushroom Chips, here is a working code block:

type: custom:auto-entities
show_empty: true
card_param: chips
card:
  type: custom:mushroom-chips-card
  alignment: justify
filter:
  include:
    - domain: scene
      area: Living Room
      options:
        type: entity
        content_info: name
        tap-action:
          action: toggle
  exclude: []
sort:
  method: friendly_name

Here were my mistakes, in order:

1. Options are your friend for the auto entities card. For scenes to work, the chips must be of the entity variety, and I really recommend having the name
2. You really want to use the tap_action: action: toggle blurb. This has to be separate lines! ScottG pointed out I was trying to make tap_action: toggle work when in the chips card it is passed as an object, not as a string (therefor the action part must be indented on the line below)

I hope this helps, and if it does, you should buy Scott a coffee:

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

@fusterclucker

That did not work,

cant be.
the config I posted works fine.
ofc all choices you can make have an effect, so yes, using the content_info: name adds the name in stead of the state.
setting a tap action other than default makes a difference.

as long as you use the magic card_param to populate the correct parameter in the auto-entities config, and set a few options of your choice, you should be good. as I suggested here

@Mariusthvdb

you should add the options: field with the type

[d13g0m0nt3s]

Hi , I need help with auto entities and the Maxi media player card. I do not if it’s posible but I would like to show the correctly playing media player. With mini media player I have no problem. I made a group of media players and with auto entities I show the currently player one but I,m not able to do it with the Maxy media player card.

This is the code I use for mini media player and I do no know how adapt it to Maxi media player. Any help will be appreciated.

    - type: custom:auto-entities
      card:
        type: entities
        show_header_toggle: false
      filter:
        include:
          - domain: media_player
            state: playing
            group: media_player.media_salon
            options:
              artwork: full-cover-fit
              hide:
                power: true
                icon: true
                source: true
                progress: false
                volume: true
                controls: true
                name: false
                info: false
              type: custom:mini-media-player
        exclude: []
      sort:
        method: last_changed
        count: 1
        numeric: true
        reverse: true
        show_empty: true
      else:
        type: picture
        image: /local/stand-by-tv-card.jpg
        tap_action:
          action: none
        hold_action:
          action: none

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

did you test it without any of the configuration options, and only set options to use the maxi-media-player card?

next step would be to add any of the config options you require it supports, not just copy and past options from another card

Maxi Media Player

Maxi Media Player Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players! (If this looks familiar to you, it’s probably because it’s almost identical to my Sonos Card, except this one is focused on supporting all players, not just Sonos.) Features: Group/Ungroup speakers If the individual speakers support it Control multiple speakers Play favorites from list Media browser button Control individual volumes in a group Artwork background Possibility to override artwo…

[d13g0m0nt3s]

Yes I tried but show no supported players found

Sorry the code as image I’m on my phone and I cant paste clean code on iOS, all with strange characters