When using device tracker to verify devices are online their states display by default as ‘home’ or ‘away’ in the dashboard. Whilst these terms make sense when tracking people, they don’t for home network devices. Being able to add a line/s in the yaml, or set options to the card configuration, replacing the displayed state text only (not changing the actual state), to something more appropriate such as ‘online’ or ‘offline’ would be most useful.
Possible yaml example>
type: entities
entities:
- entity: device_tracker.rf_bridge
name: RF Bridge
icon: mdi:access-point-network
secondary_info: last-updated
state_text_overrides:
state: Home
override: Online
State: Away
override: Offline
state_color: true
NB: I’m not a big programmer, so please don’t pick apart the above too much. It’s only to clarify my suggestion.
My current card>
I’m aware there are workaround solutions to achieve this, by creating additional template sensors etc. But these are longwinded approaches, creating unnecessary work and clutter in my opinion.
I believe the additional flexibility provided by this feature would also open opportunities beyond my one example here.
Thanks.