Dashboard: showing either a thermostat or an open window instead of turned off thermostat

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Hi everyone,

I’m completely new to home assistant and using yaml.

I struggle with not being able to use “if, then, else”
Currently working on a dashboard.
I have the Tado thermostat valves installed which are able to detect open windows. In the dashboard I’ve set up the thermostat views and in the background I’ve got an automation which turns off a thermostat in a room for 15 minutes after an open window has been detected.
In that case the dashboard thermostat will show it’s been turned off but an off state automatically feeds into the panic mode of something’s not working :sweat_smile: I rather would like to show the open window information.

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Currently for me, the only way to set this up would mean creating various cards for each possible combination, which is nuts.

You guys have any idea on how to do this smarter?

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The YAML code would be a big help :slight_smile:

3

Of course :see_no_evil: frustration was too high to think of sending the code. Sorry about that.
The dashboard code is a mess as I started with the workaround of creating a card for each possibility. I also mostly used the visual editor so far, again completely new to yaml but eager to understand it.

The automations:

alias: "Window Open Bathroom "
description: ""
triggers:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.bathroom_window
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - device_id: e7384cc3a3dada08bba7123c38f5f496
    domain: climate
    entity_id: 3f12b9905bbac26497d6ad1c235ce689
    type: set_hvac_mode
    hvac_mode: "off"
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 15
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - device_id: e7384cc3a3dada08bba7123c38f5f496
    domain: climate
    entity_id: 3f12b9905bbac26497d6ad1c235ce689
    type: set_hvac_mode
    hvac_mode: auto
mode: single

alias: Window Open Bedroom
description: ""
triggers:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.bedroom_window
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
    trigger: state
actions:
  - device_id: 536bdd75f1e234e1d350c6ada0d5dae4
    domain: climate
    entity_id: 4bada1ead7a8964d288680e867e20177
    type: set_hvac_mode
    hvac_mode: "off"
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 15
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - device_id: 536bdd75f1e234e1d350c6ada0d5dae4
    domain: climate
    entity_id: 4bada1ead7a8964d288680e867e20177
    type: set_hvac_mode
    hvac_mode: auto
mode: single

alias: Window Open Living Room
description: ""
triggers:
  - entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.living_room_window
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - device_id: 7ae6c76fac30d2472db7c31e8129be42
    domain: climate
    entity_id: 8ac47d97feddec757d29fbfaf6b5496c
    type: set_hvac_mode
    hvac_mode: "off"
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 15
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - device_id: 7ae6c76fac30d2472db7c31e8129be42
    domain: climate
    entity_id: 8ac47d97feddec757d29fbfaf6b5496c
    type: set_hvac_mode
    hvac_mode: auto
mode: single

The dashboard:

views:
  - title: Home
    badges: []
    cards:
      - square: true
        type: grid
        cards:
          - type: thermostat
            entity: climate.bathroom
            show_current_as_primary: true
            features:
              - type: climate-hvac-modes
          - type: thermostat
            entity: climate.bedroom
            show_current_as_primary: true
            features:
              - type: climate-hvac-modes
          - type: thermostat
            entity: climate.living_room
            show_current_as_primary: true
            features:
              - type: climate-hvac-modes
      - type: conditional
        conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity: binary_sensor.bathroom_window
            state: 'on'
        card:
          type: grid
          cards:
            - type: entity
              entity: binary_sensor.bathroom_window
              state_color: false
            - type: thermostat
              entity: climate.bedroom
              features:
                - type: climate-hvac-modes
            - type: thermostat
              entity: climate.living_room
              features:
                - type: climate-hvac-modes
      - type: thermostat
        entity: climate.office
        show_current_as_primary: true
        features:
          - type: climate-hvac-modes
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You could try a markdown card, which is very versatile.
Below is an example:
And MDI icons can be found here:
https://pictogrammers.github.io/@mdi/font/5.4.55/

        - type: markdown
          content: >
            <center>Bathroom:
            {%- if (states('binary_sensor.bathroom_window') == 'on') -%}
              <font color="red"><ha-icon icon="mdi:window-open-variant"> 
            {%- if (states('binary_sensor.bathroom_window') == 'off') -%}
              <font color="green"><ha-icon icon="mdi:window-closed-variant">
            {%- else -%}
              <font color="yellow">What is happening here???
            {%- endif -%}
            </ha-icon></font>
            </center>