Introducing the FYTA Plant Card: Custom Card for FYTA Plant Sensors

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Hi everyone,

I’m excited to share a custom card I’ve developed for FYTA plant sensors that enhances the visualization and interaction with your plant data in Home Assistant. The FYTA Plant Card is designed to make plant monitoring more intuitive and informative.

What it does:

  • Displays your plant’s image and sensor readings in an attractive format
  • Color-codes icons and meters based on plant status (green for perfect, yellow for attention needed, red for critical)
  • Shows interactive tooltips with status information on hover
  • Enables clicking on any element to view detailed history graphs
  • Includes battery status indicator

Here’s a preview of how it looks:
Card Demonstration

Installation & Configuration:

The card is straightforward to install - just download the JS file, add it to your resources, and then add the card to your dashboard with your FYTA device ID. Detailed installation instructions are in the README.

Looking for community input:

I’d love to get your thoughts on what would be useful for the next development steps:

  1. How does this compare to the default plant card in HA? (I haven’t used it extensively and would appreciate insights on what features might be worth adopting)

  2. Would it make sense to try integrating some of these features into the default plant card? Is that even possible?

  3. What additional features would you find most valuable? Some ideas I’m considering?

  4. Any other feedback on the current implementation?

I’m relatively new to custom card development, so I welcome any advice on best practices or potential improvements to the codebase as well.

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

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I don’t quite understand what you are introducing here! As it’s just a fork of a well known Plant card.
Enlighten me please!

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You’re absolutely right! As mentioned in the README, Olen’s work is truly outstanding. This card is specifically tailored to work with FYTA sensors and the FYTA integration. I just wanted to share its existence here and hopefully get some feedback to keep improving it further.

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Hi!
Thanks for the post!
This card is exactly what I am looking for, as the Fyta entities are slightly different from the required entities for other plant cards. I just tried to set it up. However, I could not get the styling to work. In general, the card works, but it has the “old” styling from the implementation you forked. So: image of plant over entire width with the stats down below. It does not look like the very nicely styled one you have images of in the README. I also dug around a bit. The link to “latest release” you have in the README still points to Dontinelli’s repo, which I assume is not what you intended. But even when I use the latest .js file from your repo, I do not get the nice new look of the card. Just FYI: I added the file, also the path, and also restarted everything numerous times.
Do you have any idea why that could be?
Thanks for your work!