My washing machine is powered via a smart plug with energy monitor. When the washing machine is running it uses over 2W.
I would like to see the washing machine’s state on my dashboard: running, standby, or off.
There doesn’t appear to be a way of testing if ( ('sensor.plug04_energy_power') > 2 ) within the YAML, so I’ve wound up creating 2 binary sensors:
- binary_sensor.washing_machine - power > 2W
- binary_sensor.washing_machine_standby - power between 0W and 2W
I’ve tried custom button-cards since the standard lovelace buttons appear to only work with 2 states - on or off - but I never see the standby state and the icon is always black.
My button configuration:
type: custom:button-card
tap_action:
action: none
show_state: false
show_label: true
size: 20%
label: |
[[[
if (states['binary_sensor.washing_machine'].state === "on")
return "On";
else if (states['binary_sensor.washing_machine_standby'].state === "on")
return "Standby";
else if (states['binary_sensor.washing_machine'].state === "off")
return "Off";
]]]
color: |
[[[
if (states['binary_sensor.washing_machine'].state === "on")
return 'gold';
else if (states['binary_sensor.washing_machine_standby'].state === "on")
return 'red';
else if (states['binary_sensor.washing_machine'].state === "off")
return 'steelblue';
]]]
icon: |
[[[
if (states['binary_sensor.washing_machine_standby'].state === "on")
return 'mdi:washing-machine-alert';
else if (states['binary_sensor.washing_machine_standby'].state === "off")
return 'mdi:washing-machine';
]]]
I was trying to do the same for my Electric Scooter, I needed three states, Charging, Fully Charged and Unplugged. I created 3 binary sensors for the 3 states and configured them to turn on depending on the readings of the energy monitor. Then, I used the Conditional Card and configured 3 different cards to show depending on the state of those three binary sensors. here’s the code I use if it helps.
- type: conditional
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.scooter_unplugged
state: 'on'
card:
type: custom:mushroom-template-card
primary: Unplugged
secondary: ''
icon: mdi:scooter
layout: vertical
- type: conditional
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.scooter_charging
state: 'on'
card:
type: custom:mushroom-template-card
primary: Charging
secondary: ''
icon: mdi:scooter-electric
icon_color: red
layout: vertical
- type: conditional
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.scooter_fully_charged
state: 'on'
card:
type: custom:mushroom-template-card
primary: Fully Charged
secondary: ''
icon: mdi:scooter
icon_color: green
layout: vertical
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Thank you!
Conditional card was the way - I’ve kept with standard buttons for now, so I don’t seem to be able to change the colour or text, but that’s OK as I have associated the alert icon with the standby status:
Condition is based on the standby status - if it’s on, show a button for the standby binary sensor, otherwise show the washing machine binary sensor.
type: grid
square: true
columns: 1
cards:
- type: conditional
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.washing_machine_standby
state: 'off'
card:
show_name: false
show_icon: true
type: button
tap_action:
action: more-info
entity: binary_sensor.washing_machine
show_state: true
- type: conditional
conditions:
- entity: binary_sensor.washing_machine_standby
state: 'on'
card:
show_name: false
show_icon: true
type: button
tap_action:
action: more-info
entity: binary_sensor.washing_machine_standby
show_state: true
Glad to be of help.
If you use the template-card you can also change color or icon for each of your conditional cards.