Dashboards: how to fill cards like overview (domain specific)?

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I think I am missing something simple.

I understand the overview/automatic (original-states) dashboard is special.

But it appears to bring in card types specific to each entity. If I fill in a manually (start from scratch) dashboard, one way to do so is with custom auto-entities. But that requires (I think) that I pick a card type.

Is there any way to do something similar (e.g. auto-incorporate entities) and have them use a card appropriate to their domain, like the overview dashboard does?

The closest are types like glance, entity and tile, but those are not nearly as robust.

Linwood

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This is as close as I’ve been able to get so far with auto-entities and templating. It does allow me to look at attributes of an entity and pick the card type, which is what I want. What it doesn’t do is make it very easy to arrange sizing (e.g. thermostats bigger than buttons), though it does adjust row height to the largest in a row, all columns are the same size. And of course you can not drag and drop any arrangements since it’s all generated by the sort order of the auto-entities.

But in case it’s useful (or in case there is a simpler way) an example (you clearly might want to adjust the if’s and types used. This is one view of a dashboard:

  - title: Lab Test
    type: panel
    cards:
      - type: custom:auto-entities
        card:
          type: grid
          title: stuff
          columns: 6
          square: false
        card_param: cards
        filter:
          template: >

            [ {% for e in (expand(area_entities("Lab")) |
            map(attribute='entity_id') | list ) %} 
                {% if states[e].domain == 'light' %} 
                      {{ { 'entity' : e , "type" : "light"  } }}  
                {% elif states[e].domain == 'climate' %} 
                      {{ { 'entity' : e , "type" : "thermostat"  } }}  
                {% elif states[e].domain == 'sensor' %} 
                      {{ { 'entity' : e , "type" : "sensor"  } }}  
                {% elif states[e].domain == 'binary_sensor' %} 
                      {{ { 'entity' : e , "type" : "entity"  } }}  
                {% elif states[e].domain == 'switch' %} 
                      {{ { 'entity' : e , "type" : "button"  } }}  
                {% else %} 
                      {{ { 'entity' : e , "type" : "entity"  } }}  
                {% endif %}
                , 
              {% endfor %}  
            ]
        sort:
          method: name
          ignore_case: true
          square: false

My guess is I could get more flexible if I didn’t use the grid card in the auto-entities, but not sure what choice I have there.