Can Sensors be bigger and not round?

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The sensors being small circles make them useless, I can’t read the text in them since it is always clipped. (The google wifi sensors are particularly ridiculous)

Is there a way to make sensors not round so I can read the information without having to mouse over or click?

Thank you!!

2

place them in a group and they will appear as a line item, like a light.

3

I guess I still don’t get how groups work, adding the sensors still display them as circles when I do this:

group:
Living Room:
name: “Living Room”
view: yes
entities:
- media_player.denon
- media_player.living_room_mini
- media_player.living_room_speaker
- sensor.google_wifi_current_version
- sensor.google_wifi_local_ip

4

thats cause you are making it a view… remove the view line. View means it will appear on it’s own page. Have you read the documentation?

view ( Optional ): If yes then the entry will be shown as a view (tab) at the top.

5

Yes, but the documentation on groups is very hard to read, maybe I’m just too stupid.

But view wasn’t it. I had to put the sensors in their own group otherwise they become circles,

group:
Living Room:
name: “Living Room”
view: yes
entities:
- media_player.denon
- media_player.living_room_mini
- media_player.living_room_speaker
- group.google_wifi

Google wifi:
name: “Google Wifi”
entities:
- sensor.google_wifi_current_version
- sensor.google_wifi_local_ip

6

Notice how your google wifi group doesn’t have view: yes?

It’s just reading man. The documentation is clear if you understand yaml. I’m taking you don’t understand yaml because you have some "no-no"s in your yaml already:

  1. Never use spaces in section names.
  2. Never use capitals in section names.

your yaml should look like this:

group:
  living_room: # Never use spaces or capitals here
    name: Living Room
    view: yes
    entities:
      - media_player.denon
      - media_player.living_room_mini
      - media_player.living_room_speaker
      - group.google_wifi
  
  google_wifi: # Never use spaces or capitals here
    name: Google Wifi
    entities:
      - sensor.google_wifi_current_version
      - sensor.google_wifi_local_ip

And if you were to add view: yes in your google_wifi group, it would make a new tab and place all senors as badges at the top.

7

Thank you! Everything works much better now thanks to your help!!

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FYI to learn more about yaml, check out this documentation: