Change Icon with State Change

Configuration
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Looks like it’s working. The state will only show open/closed in the UI, not on the states page

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Not sure about the icon though in the attributes list
Using device_class that shouldn’t be there?

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No, device class doesn’t add the icon attribute, it’s all handled by the frontend.

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So the issue here is why is it set ? And not changing upon state change…

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We don’t know if he’s looking in the correct spot or restarting between each change. It’s working for me so it’s definitely something he is doing with his config.

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Agreed. It seems there’s a fixed customize on the icon somewhere overriding the device_class.

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I finally figured it out! Sort of…
Just putting this in config.yaml didn’t work.

customize:
    binary_sensor.open_close_sensor_25_be_7e
      device_class: door

When I created a switch template it works, but not on an entity card, works fine on a glance card.

Thanks to all who helped. I will continue to search for why it doesn’t work with setting device_class.

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right, thats indeed a known ‘issue’, entity card behaving differently on customizations compared to other cards.
In my custom-ui repo, there’s a warning on that: custom-ui/README.md at master · Mariusthvdb/custom-ui · GitHub

Always believed that to be an issue in the custom-ui plugin, and I hadn’t realized it didnt accept core customize on a core device_class either. I would say that is truly a bug.