Hi All,
I know there are a bunch of topics on this but none seem to answer this specifically.
So I have a BMW EV that has a charge_end_time sensor. Basically, when it’s charging it displays when it expects the target charge percentage to be reached. When it’s not charging it displays when the vehicle was last charged.
I had this sensor displayed in a mushroom entity card which gave me a really nice human readable format both future and past. Like right now it’s not charging and the sensor shows ‘yesterday’. When I plug it in it says ‘in 4 hours’ to indicate when it will reach it’s charge.
I now want to switch this to a mushroom template card however. As I want the primary info to display wether or not it’s charging (different binary_sensor) and the secondary info to show this charge_end_time sensor. But when I now use a template to display the sensor it shows the timestamp value 2024-01-04T10:15:28+00:00
Reading some other posts I discovered i can somewhat replicate the nicer format using
{{ relative_time(as_datetime(states('sensor.ix1_xdrive30_charging_end_time'))) }}
2 downsides:
- its not as nice. it doesn’t show ‘yesterday’ but instead shows ‘1 day’.
- but more importantly, as I read in other posts and have confirmed using dev tools, once the timestamp is in the future
relative_timeno longer works, it just shows the timestamp again.
i’m assuming the nice human readable format is a mushroom entity card feature.
Does anyone know how this can be exactly replicated easily? If at all possible…
Or if I can keep using an entity card but show the primary info of one sensor and secondary info of another with the nice formatting?
Tnx!