Garage door status icon

Configuration
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Thanks All for the input! Really appreciate! I am trying to go with the option from @Markus99 with switch template. I have gone through step by step instructions how to setup a switch template. All is setup - but I could not find (sorry - I am very beginner:) how to link my sonoff entity (already existing on the list (switch.sonoff_1000dsdd4fs) to the cover.main_garage_door ?

'configuration.yaml

cover: !include covers.yaml
switch:

  • platform: template
    switches:
    garage:
    value_template: “{{ is_state(‘cover.garage_door’, ‘on’) }}”
    turn_on:
    service: cover.open_cover
    data:
    entity_id: cover.garage_door
    turn_off:
    service: cover.close_cover
    data:
    entity_id: cover.garage_door
    icon_template: >-
    {% if is_state(‘cover.garage_door’, ‘open’) %}
    mdi:garage-open
    {% else %}
    mdi:garage
    {% endif %}

covers.yaml

  • platform: template
    covers:
    garage_door:
    device_class: garage
    friendly_name: “Garage Door”
    position_template: “{{ states(‘sensor.garage_door’) }}”
    open_cover:
    service: switch.turn_on
    data:
    entity_id: switch.garage_door
    close_cover:
    service: switch.turn_off
    data:
    entity_id: switch.garage_door
    stop_cover:
    service: switch.turn_on
    data:
    entity_id: switch.garage_door
    icon_template: >-
    {% if states(‘sensor.garage_door’)|float > 0 %}
    mdi:garage-open
    {% else %}
    mdi:garage
    {% endif %}
    ’
    thanks!
6

I’m using the custom button card. Works great. Setup with the color changing from green if it is closed to orange if it open. Showing the door in the open and closed state.

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yes - but you need to be in Lovelace UI - to use it…

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Hey, great, can you explain to me how you did please change the icon status?
Thank you in advance.

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I’m using the horizontal stack card for what I posted above. You can just use the manual card with the code below to shown just one button.
Here is the code for just the garage door button. One tap will close the garage door and double tap will open it. Just change the “entity_id” to yours and play around with the sizing to suit.

card:
  - height: 10px
  - width: 60px
double_tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: cover.open_cover
  service_data:
    entity_id: cover.garage_door
entity: cover.garage_door
show_state: true
size: 40%
state:
  - color: green
    icon: 'mdi:garage'
    value: closed
  - color: orange
    icon: 'mdi:garage-open'
    value: open
styles: null
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: cover.close_cover
  service_data:
    entity_id: cover.garage_door
type: 'custom:button-card'
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Yes OK great, thank you very much, but how do you change the background color of the card? Thanks to you

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I use the google dark theme.

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All right, all right, thank you very much.

But it is not possible to change the background colour directly in the map?

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Hi Matt, thanks for this. It is working for me almost well. I have setup everything but I cannot close the door. So - when I tap on the button door - the door is opening + changing the icon. Which is fine. But when I click for the second time - it doesn’t close the door - there is just no reaction…

My binary sensor is configured as:

binary_sensor:

  • platform: template
    sensors:
    sonoff_dfdffdgfd:
    device_class: garage_door
    value_template: “{{ is_state(‘switch.sonoff_dfdffdgfd’, ‘on’) }}”
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you might have to adapt it to fit your setup.

my garage door is just controlled via a z-wave outlet that is attached to a relay that’s wired into the bell wire on the opener, which when turned on is effectively like i’m standing in the garage pressing the wall button. i have a HA automation that always turns that outlet off 2 sec after it’s turned on…so when i turn that outlet on, it’s basically the same thing as if i were standing there holding the wall button down for 2 sec.

the catch here is that you can’t (at least i don’t think you can) change the action on that card based on the state of the door. it works for me because no matter whether i’m opening or closing, it’s always the same action (just turn on the garage door opener outlet).

if you have separate actions for open and close, you can use a state-switch to change the card based on the state of the door (which will allow you to set up two different cards with different actions).

something like this…

            type: 'custom:state-switch'
            entity: garage_door_sensor
            states:
              'off':
                type: 'custom:button-card'
                entity: garage_door_sensor
                show_icon: true
                show_name: true
                tap_action:
                  action: action.do_garage_door_open
                icon: 'hass:garage'
                state:
                  - value: 'off'
                    color: 'rgb(68,115,159)'
              'on':
                type: 'custom:button-card'
                entity: garage_door_sensor
                show_icon: true
                show_name: true
                tap_action:
                  action: action.do_garage_door_close
                icon: 'hass:garage-open'
                state:
                  - value: 'on'
                    color: 'rgb(255,0,0)'

that may be even easier if you have just one sensor that controls both the door status and the open/close, you’d be able to change the entity on the on/off cards to match that entity and run whatever service calls you need on that. in my case, i have a sensor on the door that tells me if it’s open (on) or closed (off), so i would use that entity to determine the status of the door and what icon to show.

i hope that makes sense…let me know if anything is confusing and i’ll do my best to help (of course anyone else feel free to jump in too if i missed something obvious).

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Very nice–I think this is my favourite way to surface a garage door opener. Status and action from a single icon wins the WAF award too. I changed the door opener to a hold_action as I’ve accidentally swiped it on my phone. A tap calls more_info.

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that’s actually a really good idea (changing the actual open action to hold rather than tap). i’m always paranoid that i’m going to randomly open the door when i don’t want to.

i also have mine set up to not allow for opening the door at night - if my alarm is turned on in night mode, the button changes to only be more info (no way to actually open the door via the button). it’s also conditional so that if the door is open, i can close it from the button…just won’t allow me to open from the button.

if i want to open it, i can always go into the device itself and turn it on…it’s just my own failsafe so i don’t bump the button in the middle of the night and randomly open the garage door without realizing it.

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Sadly, on iOS at least, the hold action is extremely unreliable. I’ve changed to double tap which seems good so far.

What is it about tech demos to the wife that means they always seem to fail? :slight_smile:

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i am thinking about trying to work up a confirmation popup so that i can safely use single tap without worry about bumping it accidentally…

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Did you ever incorporate a confirmation?

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no, but I have added a smart switch that the opener is plugged into that is turned off except when I need to open the door…which is effectively like a garage door lock (with no power to the opener there’s no way to open the door).

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Question on your card. I set it up that the way you had it and if the door is open it will close by clicking on it. However, it will not open when you click on it even with the call to service to open it. I can open it if I manually put in the call to service for that cover. Not sure why it will not work.

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Maybe try using the call service cover.toggle?

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Hi Matt,

do you know where are something wrong?

type: 'custom:state-switch'
            entity: binary_sensor.garage_garage_door_contact
            states:
              'off':
                type: 'custom:button-card'
                entity: binary_sensor.garage_garage_door_contact
                show_icon: true
                show_name: true
                tap_action:
                  action: call-service
                  service: switch.turn_on
                  service_data:
                  entity_id: switch.garage_trigger
                icon: 'hass:garage'
                state:
                  - value: 'off'
                    color: 'rgb(68,115,159)'
              'on':
                type: 'custom:button-card'
                entity: binary_sensor.garage_garage_door_contact
                show_icon: true
                show_name: true
                tap_action:
                  action: call-service
                  service: switch.turn_off
                  service_data:
                  entity_id: switch.garage_trigger
                icon: 'hass:garage'
                state:
                  - value: 'on'
                    color: 'rgb(255,0,0)'

Many thanks!

NB: I’m a newbie

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honestly i’m not an expert on the state switch, but my random guess off the top of my head is that on and off don’t need quotes. not sure if that would cause issues, but it might.

what exactly is going wrong?