Hey everyone! 
I’d like to share a new custom card collection I’ve been working on: Insight Cards - a set of dashboard cards / charts focused on performance, ease of use, and a proper visual editor.
Why another graph card?
Each of the popular options has a significant trade-off:
- mini-graph-card — easy to set up, but no zoom, no editor
- ApexCharts-card — very powerful, but YAML-only and can be slow with many entities
- Plotly-graph-card — great interactivity, but steep learning curve and YAML-only
Insight Cards tries to solve the paradox: simplicity + performance + visual editor, no YAML required.
Currently three cards are available in v1.0.0
Line Card (custom:insight-line-card)
- Line, Area and Step chart styles
- Multi-entity with per-entity color and name
- Dual Y axes
- Drag-to-zoom
- Long-term Statistics API support
- Threshold lines and color thresholds (gradient fill based on value)
- Transforms: diff, normalize, cumulative
- Tap / double-tap / hold actions
Bar Card (custom:insight-bar-card)
- Grouped and stacked layouts
- Aggregation: mean, sum, min, max
- Bucket sizes: hour, day, week, month
- Color thresholds per bar
- Tap / double-tap / hold actions
Heatmap Card (custom:insight-heatmap-card)
- Three layouts: Hour × Day, Weekday × Hour, Month × Day
- 8 built-in color scales
- Reverse scale, fixed min/max for normalization
- Cell gap, corner radius, empty cell color, optional value labels
- Hover tooltip with time label
- Tap / double-tap / hold actions
All three cards have visual editors. No YAML needed for the common cases.
What’s next?
Two more cards are already planned:
- Sankey Card (custom:insight-sankey-card) — visualise energy or flow distributions between sources and consumers,
rendered via Canvas - Compare Card (custom:insight-compare-card) — overlay the same sensor across different time periods (e.g. this week
vs. last week) in a single chart
Links
- GitHub: GitHub - alex-jung/insight-card: Modular Lovelace visualization cards for Home Assistant · GitHub
- Release: Release Insight Cards v1.0.0 · alex-jung/insight-card · GitHub
Hope it’s useful for some of you!