Jinja2-Code in customize.yaml not executed

[BeSt79]

Hello everyone

I am using the proximity integration and would now like to display a badge on my dashboard that shows a different icon depending on the state of the proximity sensor.

To do this, I have changed the proximity sensor in a customize.yaml as follows:

sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni:
  icon: |
    {% if is_state('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'arrived') %}
      mdi:home-outline
    {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'stationary') %}
      mdi:home-off-outline
    {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'away_from') %}
      mdi:home-export-outline
    {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'towards') %}
      mdi:home-import-outline
    {% else %}
      mdi:home-search-outline
    {% endif %}

I integrate the customize.yaml into my configuration.yaml as follows:

homeassistant:
  customize: !include customize.yaml

However, after restarting the HA and restarting the entire host, the icon is not displayed correctly.

If I look at the Proximity Sensor in the developer tools under States, the following is displayed:

I am on this version:

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Benni

[vingerha]

It is not (well) documented but you cannot use templating here…a pity indeed but …well

[jhol-byte]

you can instead create a template sensor and use this one in your dashboard

[vingerha]

Or you resolve the icon-choice in the card, assuming you will only need to see this in a card

[BeSt79]

THANK YOU, wow, this forum is lightning-fast

I now try to create a template sensor:

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Benni Bewegung Icon Helper" # Neuer Sensorname
        unique_id: benni_bewegung_icon_helper # Eindeutige ID
        state: "{{ states('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni') }}" # Wichtig, damit der Sensor bei Änderungen aktualisiert wird
        attributes:
          calculated_icon: | # Attribut, das das Icon enthält
            {% if is_state('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'arrived') %}
              mdi:home-outline
            {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'stationary') %}
              mdi:home-off-outline
            {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'away_from') %}
              mdi:home-export-outline
            {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'towards') %}
              mdi:home-import-outline
            {% else %}
              mdi:home-search-outline
            {% endif %}

In the developer tools it is shown correctly:

Then I inserted this template sensor into the badge on my dashboard:

type: entity
show_name: true
show_state: true
show_icon: true
entity: sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni
name: Benni
icon: "{{ state_attr('sensor.benni_bewegung_icon_helper', 'calculated_icon') }}"
show_entity_picture: false

But sadly the icon is not shown. It seems, that there is a “space” for the icon, but I can´t see it:

[jhol-byte]

oh, you should directly use sensor.benni_bewegung_icon_helper as entity_id, no extra need for the icon part

template sensor like this:

   - sensor:
      - name: "Benni Bewegung Icon Helper" # Neuer Sensorname
        unique_id: benni_bewegung_icon_helper # Eindeutige ID
        state: "{{ states('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni') }}"
        device_class: motion
        icon: >
          {% if is_state('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'arrived') %}
            mdi:home-outline
          {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'stationary') %}
            mdi:home-off-outline
          {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'away_from') %}
            mdi:home-export-outline
          {% elif is_state ('sensor.home_bewegung_von_benni', 'towards') %}
            mdi:home-import-outline
          {% else %}
            mdi:home-search-outline
          {% endif %}

[BeSt79]

Awesome. It works. THANK YOU!

May I ask a follow-up question?

This is now displayed correctly in the badge. I already have a tile card for each person in my household on the dashboard:

Is it possible to display a text depending on the status of “sensor.home_movement_of_benni” plus the “dynamic” icon here instead of “Home”, for example?

Like this, for example?

My question is: Is it possible to create any kind of “helper” that contains an icon and dynamic text, that can be placed into the tile-card?

This is the tile-card-yaml:

cards:
  - type: horizontal-stack
    cards:
      - type: tile
        entity: person.benni
        state_content:
          - state
          - last-changed
        show_entity_picture: true
        features_position: bottom
        vertical: false

[jhol-byte]

I guess you can just set state in the template sensor to the text you want to display then

[BeSt79]

Thank you!