Display an entity's attribute?

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How do I use cards to display an attribute of an entity?

I don’t see any examples: https://www.home-assistant.io/lovelace/

The only thing I can see are direct entity state values, or custom cards to do custom things. How can I display an entity’s attribute instead of it’s state value?

e.g.
An entity has an attribute ip_address and I want to show that using Entity:

  - entities:
      - entity: sensor.iot_devices_status
        name: IoT IP Address
        // ?? show sendsor.iot_devices_status[ip_address] ??
    type: entities
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The traditional way to display an entity’s attribute is to create a Template Sensor whose template extracts the attribute’s value. In other words, the Template Sensor acts as a proxy for the attribute. You can then use a standard card (entities, glance, etc) to display the Template Sensor’s state.

Obviously this can be tedious if you have a lot of attributes to display. There are custom cards able to display attributes directly without using a Template Sensor as a proxy.

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Thanks. I thought as much, but wasn’t sure. HA should add a feature in cards to display attributes.

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I’ve figured out how to do it. Turns out there IS a way in the normal Lovelace UI. There is an enitites: type of attribute that does exactly this, docs:

  - entities:
      - type: attribute
        entity: device_tracker.nas
        name: IPv4
        icon: 'mdi:lan'
        attribute: ip
    type: entities

These will display the ip: attribute value of the entity device_tracker.nas. This is exactly what I was looking for.

There’s also an Entity Card option as well, just a simple attribute: option.

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It worked, for more examples:

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Hello, is it way to display only one of all attributes ? Or I can show them all ?

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I think this built-in option can only show one. I know there are custom lovelace addons that can do more, though. Maybe try multiple entity row or Fold Entity Row?

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In the newer versions of HA the format would be like this to display an attribute in the entities card:

type: entity
entity: calendar.78b
attribute: message
name: Avfallstype

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A helpful thread.

I’ve just gotten this to work using:

type: entities
title: ESPresence device detection
entities:
  - type: attribute
    entity: sensor.ash_watch_ultra
    attribute: distance
    name: Ash Watch Ultra
    prefix: ''
    suffix: Metres

Just posting as things have changed a bit in the interim.

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