Let me have the old badge style back again please!

Month of "What the heck?!"
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Simple request: I very much dislike the change to badges in the 2024.8/9 release. No one else seems to care, but I find the new pill shape to be an annoying consumer of space, especially in the mobile app views. I had to remove many of my old badges to make a dashboard that would be acceptable to my wife (otherwise the badges pushed all the main content completely off screen with the new format).

Please let me get a circle with a single word of text underneath as a possibility. Theories that someone would rapidly mod that back in via HACS do NOT seem to have come to fruition, and I am absolutely not skilled enough to construct such a plugin myself.

Very disappointed.

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You can resurrect old look - but you need to change a code for every badge:
from:

badges:
  - entity: sun.sun
  - entity: zone.home

to

badges:
  - entity: sun.sun
    type: custom:hui-state-badge-element
  - entity: zone.home
    type: custom:hui-state-badge-element

The “hui-state-badge-element” line causes using currently available “state-badge” element of Picture elements card.
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But even with this “hack” you will not be able to:
1.Define a different “name” - this option is not available for that “state-badge” thing (use card-mod for this, explained in the main card-mod thread).
2.Define a different icon/image - these “icon” & “image” options are not available too.
If it is OK for your use-cases - try this way.

Also, you still can use card-mod for these resurrected badges - see details in the main card-mod thread.
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