🔹 Auto-entities - Automatically fill cards with entities

dodekaphilist · January 13, 2025, 9:39pm

Fantastic, thanks for your help! A lot of your other posts were also really helpful to me.
Essentially, one can take their entity list from the regular entities card, put it into the filter section of the auto-entities card and it just works. Maybe a bit unintiutive, but I’ll take it.

banllon2008 · January 16, 2025, 4:42pm

i cannot adjust h1 tittle “Shelly” size or padding , not applying , under type: custom:stack-in-card can but not in auto entities card, any help please?

        type: custom:stack-in-card
        title: Test
        card_mod:
          style:
            .: |
              ha-card {
                overflow: auto;
                max-height: 500px;
               
              }
            $: |
              h1.card-header {
                padding: 12px 0px 0px 12px !important;
                color: #727272 !important;
                line-height: 40px;
                font-weight: 500;
                font-size: 16px !important;
              }
        cards:
          - type: custom:auto-entities
            card:
              show_header_toggle: false
              title: Shelly
              type: entities
              card_mod:
                style: |
                  .: |
                    ha-card {
                      overflow: auto;
                      max-height: 500px;
                      border: 50px !important;
                    }
                  $: |
                    h1.card-header {
                      padding: 12px 0px 0px 12px !important;
                      color: #727272 !important;
                      line-height: 40px;
                      font-weight: 500;
                      font-size: 36px !important;
                    }
                    
            filter:
              include:
                - entity_id: light.bed_light

sayanova · January 17, 2025, 3:51am

Hi, is it possible to populate dynamic value in filter.include options?

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: grid
  square: false
  columns: 2
card_param: cards
sort:
  method: entity_id
filter:
  include:
    - domain: light
      area: bedroom
      options:
        type: tile
        entity: this.entity_id
        name: |
          {{ state_attr('this.entity_id', 'friendly_name') | replace('Bedroom ', '') }}
        # I can't make this part work properly. I want to make tile cards, prefix 'Bedroom' removed in their name.
  exclude:
    - hidden_by: "*"

Ildar_Gabdullin · January 17, 2025, 4:18am

You cannot use template inside “include” option.
The “template” option should be used instead (see in docs).
Try this (untested):

filter:
  template: >-
    {% for LIGHT in area_entities('bedroom')|
                    select('search','light.')|
                    reject('is_hidden_entity') -%}
    {{
      {
        'type': 'tile',
        'entity': LIGHT,
        'name': state_attr(LIGHT,'friendly_name') | replace('Bedroom ', '')
      }
    }},
    {% endfor %}

mase · January 18, 2025, 12:57pm

hey guys, i´m playing around with auto-entities, still it´s kinda hard for me to get what i want.

i try to only show my aqara multisensors and populate the following card.
is there any way to do so?

type: custom:mushroom-template-card
entity: sensor.multisensor_hallway_humidity
primary: "{{states(entity) | float(0) | round(0)}}%"
secondary: >-
  {{ state_attr(entity, 'friendly_name') | title }} |
  {{states('sensor.multisensor_hallway_temperature') }}° |
  {{states('sensor.multisensor_hallway_battery') }}%
multiline_secondary: false
icon: mdi:water-percent
icon_color: "{{ 'red' if (states(entity) | float(0)) > 60 else 'blue' }}"

only hallway changes to for example office

flyoffacliff · January 19, 2025, 10:38pm

I am having a strange issue, working on a Glance card. If I do this, the margins change as expected:

card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card {
      padding-bottom: 0px;
      }
    .entities .entity {
      margin-top: -20px;
      margin-bottom: -5px;
      --mdc-icon-size: 40px;
    }

If I do this, the color of the title changes as expected:

card_mod:
  style:
    $: |
      .card-header {
        color: red  !important;
      }

But I can’t find a working syntax that allows all of these changes to take place at the same time! Any ideas?

Ildar_Gabdullin · January 20, 2025, 10:30am

Probably this is what you need:
main card mod thread - 1st post - link at the bottom title “fantastic” - other stuff - combining “.:” and “$:”

SFoskett · January 22, 2025, 5:54pm

Is it possible to configure the entities card? I am trying to pass “show_icon: false” and can’t get it to “take” anywhere in yaml. I would also love to hide the state and just show the name, or even a custom name, but can’t make this work.

Mariusthvdb · January 22, 2025, 9:17pm

yes you can card_mod the card itself, or the entities in the options of the include

this however is not an option of the entities card… so that wont work anywhere

you cant make up settings that are not there…

you can use another card that would provide these options, like template-entity-row, or any other card with functionality you seek

platini761 · January 23, 2025, 1:03am

hello it is possible to limit rows showed by auto entites and get a “show more” button? or scroll?

Ildar_Gabdullin · January 23, 2025, 7:46am

By card-mod only. Search in the main card-mod thread.

DriesA · January 24, 2025, 9:27am

Hi,

Would it be possible to include/exclude certain entities based on the floor they are in?
I know it’s possible based on area, but in some cases I would like to see all entities of a certain floor.

Ildar_Gabdullin · January 24, 2025, 11:35am

It is definitely possible by using a “template” option.

Mariusthvdb · January 24, 2025, 1:17pm

see WTH, where are the floor_entities() for the template

Ltek · January 27, 2025, 8:58pm

would be great if someone made this into an integration so we could configure this via UI. Not having simple ‘filter by’ for Labels, etc is a huge gap in both the usage and admin of entities. It seems the devs think the only way people use or admin devices is by area (room)… which is incorrect. If I want to view and control all my RGB lights I must manually create a dashboard to see them all on the same screen. When providing a feature, we should be able to easily leverage the benefits across all of HA

Martin84 · January 29, 2025, 1:30pm

I created a card with all my battery operated devices, and show battery status of each, sorted from min to max. But “unavailable” show at the bottom. Is there any way to show them at the top, before the min value entities?
Thanks for your awesome integration!

Mariusthvdb · January 29, 2025, 2:27pm

but we have that filter in the entities dashboard.
it’s not the same as showing polished cards in the Frontend, but at /config/entities, this is exactly what you can do

as a matter of fact, Ive done away with many an auto-entities card config when that filtering was introduced, it is way faster and less consuming for the system

now if only the helpers dashboard got fixed to be as robust as the entities dashboard…

Mariusthvdb · January 29, 2025, 2:30pm

suppose you could write 2 auto-entities configs and stack them, I do that eg for separating inside and outside motion sensors, while all of the other parameters are identical

Ltek · February 2, 2025, 8:50pm

Would appreciate if you can post yours as an example? I would like to create cards on Dashboard, each card showing the full list for each entity types: Inside/Outside Motion, Inside/Outside Lights, Doors & Windows, etc

Would be interesting to have the card only populate based on value/status (Open doors, Motion detected, etc) which would make it super quick/easy to see what you want (which is usually the triggered entities)

thanks!

Mariusthvdb · February 2, 2025, 10:57pm

just create a stack card and have 2 auto-entities with opposed include and exclude filters

first include ‘inside’ and exclude ‘outside’
second include ‘outside’ and exclude ‘inside’

sure, easy to do, anything is possible. well, almost.