Using the Entity card to display an entity, shows the entity’s state value:
- type: entity
entity: cover.shutter_master_bedroom
But if I use an Entities card to show the same entity, it instead shows the controls of the entity:
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: cover.shutter_master_bedroom
Why is there such an inconsistency between the behaviour of these two cards? I expected the state value to be shown in both cases.
It is subtle, but the state is shown. It is open, because the close button is active and the open button is not. There’s not much room left for the state in text. The entities card is meant to show multiple entities in a more compact way.
As shown in the docs, you can force entity types that have a special row format to show in the default way (state only) by adding type: simple-entity.
type: entities
entities:
- entity: cover.garage
type: simple-entity
Many thanks! I did see this:
It also can be used to force entities with a default special row format to render as a simple state. You can do this by setting the type: simple-entity .
But I never understood the context.
Even if this is a huge step in the right direction, I still would like it to be rendered exactly as the entity card does it:
I’m confused, what prevents you from using the Entity card if that’s exactly what you want?
Maybe use this custom card to use the state as secondary info?
Thanks for the tip, but I’m trying to minimize the use of custom cards, if I can.
Just because the final result isn’t looking exactly as I hoped for. But I’m ok