Dynamic page view titles. Possible?

Configuration Frontend
1

I have a number of electric power meter devices. And I have a dashboard with a page view for each of them. Until now I manually changed the title of these views to whatever these devices were monitoring at the time. That varies.

I wonder if it is possible to use the contents of an input_text helper to assign to these titles.

An example snippet:

...
  - theme: Backend-selected
    title: Shelly 1 (TV)
    type: sidebar
    icon: ''
    badges: []
    cards:
...

In this case I would want to make to title dependent on the value of an input_text helper.
Some formula with brackets, quotes and states, I guess? Possible?
I already have custom:config-template-card installed, by the way.

Update:
When I try

    title: {{ states( 'input_text.labelshelly1' ) }}

That is then automatically changed after saving to

    title:
      '[object Object]': null
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2

Very few core dashboard cards support templates. Unless you use this:

3

Thanks for the tip. Actually I had installed this custom card a few days ago for another purpose.

I now made a change from:

title: Stroom
views:
  - type: masonry
    theme: Backend-selected
    title: Test
    path: test
    badges: []
    cards:
      - type: entity
        entity: sensor.stat_shellyplug1_energy_yesterday
...

to

title: Stroom
views:
  - type: custom:config-template-card
    variables:
      SHELLY1_LABEL: states[input_text.labelshelly1]
    entities:
      - input_text.labelshelly1
    card:
      type: masonry
      theme: Backend-selected
      title: ${SHELLY1_LABEL}
      path: test
      badges: []
      cards:
        - type: entity
          entity: sensor.stat_shellyplug1_energy_yesterday
...

But unfortunatly this didn’t work. The view is not visible after the change. I get ‘Unnamed view’ as title with an empty view.
I’ll keep trying variations on this. If I can’t figure it out I guess I’ll go ask at the authors webpage.

4

try with states['input_text.labelshelly1']

5

That makes a difference. Instead of an empty ‘Unnamed View’ I now get another error message:

Unknown type encountered: masonry

type: masonry
theme: Backend-selected
title:
  entity_id: input_text.labelshelly1
  state: TV
  attributes:
    editable: true
    min: 0
    max: 100
    pattern: null
    mode: text
    icon: mdi:card-text
    friendly_name: label
  context:
    id: 01GKRD8XA32Y47MXBXSEEANB0F
    parent_id: null
    user_id: null
  last_changed: '2022-12-08T08:22:46.339Z'
  last_updated: '2022-12-08T08:22:46.339Z'
  _cui_keep: true
path: test
badges: []
cards:
  - type: entity
    entity: sensor.stat_shellyplug1_energy_yesterday
  - type: entity
    entity: input_text.labelshelly1

At least it now recognizes the variable.
But I think the problem is that config-template-card wants to see a card (or a row?) and a view is not a card.

6

Do not think you may place your whole view inside CTC (config-template-card).
It works for cards only.
If you need to modify a view title dynamically - card-mod-theme is your Way.

7

I have now installed that mod. But I don’t see yet how to use it to change the view title. The examples I’ve seen were all about style.
Could you please explain?

8

Let’s precisely define what you need.
Correct me if I am wrong.
You need to dynamically define a View’s name - like this one:
изображение
“Dynamically” = by using templates (like jinjia) & state objects (like “states()”, “state_attr()” etc).
“Define” = “change font-size, color, the text itself”.
Right?

If so - go to Community → Themes → Supercharge you themes (smth like that), in short - to card-mod theme thread.
Then ping me there - I’ll give you a solution.

9

@Ildar_Gabdullin do you mean this thread?

I’d love to know if this is possible!

10

Yes, that thread