Auto-entities card: filter by state but add custom name and icon attribute

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I am not sure this is possible, but would like to be able to filter by state but add a custom icon and name.

I have 4 waze sensors that I want to only show those sensors that are not 0min (i.e. when I’m at home, i don’t want to see the sensor for ETA to get home when it is 0). How can do I do this?

Using the auto-entities card right now but not sure this is supported by this card from what I read in the documentation in github.

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use an include filter where the state is above 0.

filter:
  include:
    - state: "> 0" # State is greater than 0

EDIT: I glanced over your question. I don’t think you can customize anything with this card. I usually customize everything in the backend so I don’t have to customize in the frontend.

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When you edit your entities do you use customize.yaml page in UI or yaml file or do you do it from the states page?

Reason I ask is because you can’t add a custom name to a waze sensor. It becomes the name of the entity.

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You totally can add a custom name to the waze sensor. Just add it in the customize section. If you add the name to the sensor itself in the waze configuration, it will change the entity_id. If you change it in the customize section (in the UI or yaml) it will not change the entity_id.

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This is what I was thinking of doing. Honestly something that bugs me on HA still is that the customization part this whole notion of customize.yaml (UI or yaml file itself) feels its like on its own island. Not sure if this is the primary way to customize your entities given that you can also do it via the states page under the dev tools page. However, if you do this then it doesn’t stick (i.e. it doesn’t get updated in the customize.yaml file. Also if you do it via the dev tools method i also don’t know if this change will be persistent if you remove the integration and then re add it.

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states page is not the correct way. In the ui, it’s located here and it sticks

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Yea i know that, and i know it sticks. However, my point was that if its not the right way to customize your entity id or the name or icon via dev tools then why allow that in the first place? I see its already not allowed for some entities like the waze sensor, you can’t edit anything via the dev tools > states page. However, for others you are allowed.

EDIT: i am going off on a tangent sharing my opinion, so for this thread you have resolved my question, so thank you! :slight_smile:

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