I would appreciates some help with auto entities card

Configuration Frontend
1

Hello, I would appreciate some help with auto entities card. My goal is to show a media-control card or a custom button card depending upon if the media player entity is active or not. It works fine if I choose the entities card type, however if I change it to media-control, then I just get an error message stating that I need a card from the media domain. What’s wrong here?

This is working:

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: media_player.tv
      state: playing
  exclude: []
else:
  type: custom:button-card
  styles:
    card:
      - font-size: 80px
      - padding: 0px
      - height: 190px
      - background-color: '#996119'
  entity: sensor.time
  color_type: card
  color: '#262626'
  show_icon: false
  show_state: true
  show_name: false

And this does not:

type: media-control
card:
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: media_player.tv
      state: playing
  exclude: []
else:
  type: custom:button-card
  styles:
    card:
      - font-size: 80px
      - padding: 0px
      - height: 190px
      - background-color: '#996119'
  entity: sensor.time
  color_type: card
  color: '#262626'
  show_icon: false
  show_state: true
  show_name: false

Thank you!

Csaba

2

That’s because you are no longer using the auto-entities card. You are using the media control card and that does not support any of the options the auto-entities card does.

If you want to switch cards based on some state use this instead:

3

Thank you, the state-switch works as expected!

Csaba

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