Lovelace: Bar Card

I’m using the documentation at GitHub - custom-cards/bar-card: Customizable Animated Bar card for Home Assistant Lovelace

card-mod is a SEPARATE plugin

I get that, but I’m using the examples provided on the bar-card documentation.

I’ve also tried the documentation on the card-mod page.

I’m asking for help from someone as to the structure, not a critique of my process thus far :slight_smile:

All card-mod-related info on a bar-card readme may not reflect latest changes in card-mod. That is why I suggested to check docs on a card-mod github.
And as I already said -

I’ve tried various permutations. I think I’m going to give up for now, until bar-card’s documentation is updated to reflect the latest card-mod.

This may never happen.
Suggest to ask a question in the main card-mod thread.
Besides, the 1st post of that thread contains a link (in the end) which leads to a list of examples, find there examples for bar-card, might be useful.
In general, card-mod should be used as

type: custom:bar-card
...
card_mod:
  style: ....

Not that it is defined on a card’s level, not per-entity; and also note that missing “card_mod” keyword.

The first post of that thread doesn’t actually instantiate card-mod, it just goes straight to style, which is what I worked from and then was corrected by you.

I’ve found the problem, now. The per-card card editor on Safari is randomly removing chunks of my config. It’s only when I go into the dashboard editor that I can actually see everything. I’d use Chrome, but that has its own issues.

I’ve got a starting point now, at least:

card_mod:
  style: |
    bar-card-currentbar {
      border-radius: 20px;
    }

and I can work out how to slot that in the right place for all the cards I want to tweak. Thanks for the help.

Do not understand you, but nevermind, good if you sorted it out.

i figured it out how to use target with the value from an entity with the suggested config-template-card:

here’s an example code with the Tesla Car Battery and target value from the Charging Limit that is currently set in the Tesla App (80% in the picture):

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type: 'custom:config-template-card'
variables:
  - states['sensor.tesla_charge_limit_soc']
entities:
  - sensor.tesla_charge_limit_soc
card:
  type: custom:bar-card
  entities:
    - entity: sensor.tesla_battery_level
      name: Battery Charge
  height: 40px
  positions:
    indicator: inside
    name: outside
    value: inside
  width: 60%
  columns: 1
  target: '${vars[0].state}'
  severity:
    - value: null
      from: 0
      to: 10
      color: red
      icon: mdi:battery-alert
    - value: null
      from: 11
      to: 20
      color: darkred
      icon: mdi:battery-10
    - value: null
      from: 21
      to: 30
      color: darkorange
      icon: mdi:battery-20
    - value: null
      from: 31
      to: 40
      color: orange
      icon: mdi:battery-30
    - value: null
      from: 41
      to: 50
      color: yellow
      icon: mdi:battery-40
    - value: null
      from: 51
      to: 60
      color: yellowgreen
      icon: mdi:battery-50
    - value: null
      from: 61
      to: 70
      color: lightgreen
      icon: mdi:battery-60
    - value: null
      from: 71
      to: 80
      color: limegreen
      icon: mdi:battery-70
    - value: null
      from: 81
      to: 90
      color: green
      icon: mdi:battery-80
    - value: null
      from: 91
      to: 100
      color: darkgreen
      icon: mdi:battery
  card_mod:
    style: |
      bar-card-value {
        color: white !important;
      }
      bar-card-name {
        font-weight: normal;
      }
      ha-icon {
        color: {{ states(entity) | int <= 10 ? 'red' :
                  states(entity) | int <= 20 ? 'darkred' :
                  states(entity) | int <= 30 ? 'darkorange' :
                  states(entity) | int <= 40 ? 'orange' :
                  states(entity) | int <= 50 ? 'yellow' :
                  states(entity) | int <= 60 ? 'yellowgreen' :
                  states(entity) | int <= 70 ? 'lightgreen' :
                  states(entity) | int <= 80 ? 'limegreen' :
                  states(entity) | int <= 90 ? 'green' :
                  'darkgreen' }} !important;
      }

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Suggest to define “sensor.tesla_charge_limit_soc” as monitored by config-template-card, i.e. add it into the “entities” section, otherwise the card will be not updated after changing this helper.

thanks, i corrected the code.

do you know what is need to have the indicator shown? do i understand it right: it should indicated if the battery is getting charged?

couldn’t find any information at the repo of the bar card mod

If by “indicator” you mean a small “triangle” (like an arrow) - it is shown when an entity is constantly changing (up, down). I do not know the exact algorithm - but probably the card tracks a value’s gradient within some fixed time period; if the gradient is not 0 → show an indicator. So the indicator sometimes is displayed, sometimes not.
I am not using the indicator myself; imho it is not very informative.

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ok that makes sense. thanks for your explanation.
if the algorythm is working like that, it may be a too long timespan for the big car battery to increase to the next percent. So maybe thats the reason it is never shown for me.
would be a nice feature to see if it is charging. so maybe i’ll replace the icon with cardmod to show if its plugged in in and acutal charging.

You may analyse a “binary_sensor.charging” (or whatever): if it is ON → colorize the icon by card-mod as you suggested yourself (ask in the main card-mod thread for details if needed).

Updated version with day and date.

type: custom:config-template-card
variables:
  - - Mo
    - Tu
    - We
    - Th
    - Fr
    - Sa
    - Su
    - Mo
    - Tu
    - We
    - Th
    - Fr
    - Sa
    - Su
  - ((new Date()).getDay())
  - ((new Date()).getDate())
  - ((new Date(Date.now() + 1*60*60*24*1000)).getDate())
  - ((new Date(Date.now() + 2*60*60*24*1000)).getDate())
  - ((new Date(Date.now() + 3*60*60*24*1000)).getDate())
  - ((new Date(Date.now() + 4*60*60*24*1000)).getDate())
  - ((new Date(Date.now() + 5*60*60*24*1000)).getDate())
  - ((new Date(Date.now() + 6*60*60*24*1000)).getDate())
entities:
  - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_today
  - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_tomorrow
  - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_3
  - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_4
  - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_5
  - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_6
  - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_7
card:
  type: custom:bar-card
  entities:
    - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_today
      name: ${vars[0][vars[1] +6 ] +"-"+ [vars[2]] }
    - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_tomorrow
      name: ${vars[0][vars[1]] +"-"+ [vars[3]] }
    - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_3
      name: ${vars[0][vars[1] + 1]+"-"+ [vars[4]]}
    - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_4
      name: ${vars[0][vars[1] + 2]+"-"+ [vars[5]]}
    - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_5
      name: ${vars[0][vars[1] + 3]+"-"+ [vars[6]]}
    - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_6
      name: ${vars[0][vars[1] + 4]+"-"+ [vars[7]]}
    - entity: sensor.solcast_pv_forecast_forecast_day_7
      name: ${vars[0][vars[1] + 5]+"-"+ [vars[8]]}
  title: PV Forecast
  direction: up
  height: 100
  stack: horizontal
  max: 40
  unit_of_measurement: ' '
  positions:
    icon: 'off'
    name: outside
  decimal: 1
  card_mod:
    style: |-

      ha-card {
           --ha-card-header-font-size: 14px;
           transform-origin: 0 0;
         }  

         bar-card-backgroundbar { 
          background: linear-gradient(green 35%, gold 65%, orange 75%, red 85%); 
          border-radius: 8px   
         } 
        bar-card-currentbar { 
          background: linear-gradient(green 35%, gold 65%, orange 75%, red 85%);       
          clip-path: polygon(0 100%, 100% 100%, 100% calc(100% - var(--bar-percent)), 0 calc(100% - var(--bar-percent)));
          border-radius: 8px
         }
        bar-card-name {
          text-shadow: 1px 1px black
        }
        bar-card-value {
          text-shadow: 2px 2px black
        }
      }


Dear All,

Sorting the entities is what I was looking for too. Thanks for the code. I have an add-on requirement on it which would be to be able to hide all the entities which have their value = 0. How this could be added to that code?

I have a strange problem, could be a RTL problem or something like that,
As soon as I configure the HA system to the English language it works well, if I return the language to the Hebrew language the problem returns. Maybe someone knows this problem?
The problem exists on a Iphone device
I am attaching 2 photos.
Picture that doesn’t look right in Hebrew
Picture that it looks normal in English


and this the code of card

type: custom:bar-card
title: כמות האוכל של תמר השבוע 🍼
entities:
  - entity: sensor.kmvt_vkl_yvmyt_2
    name: היום
    color: lightblue
    icon: mdi:baby-bottle
    target: 400
  - entity: sensor.kmvt_vkl_yvm_tmvl_ml
    icon: mdi:baby-bottle
    name: אתמול
  - entity: sensor.kmvt_vkl_yvm_shlshvm_ml
    icon: mdi:baby-bottle
    name: שלשום
  - entity: sensor.kmvt_vkl_yvm_lpny_3_ymym_ml
    icon: mdi:baby-bottle
    name: לפני 3
  - entity: sensor.kmvt_vkl_yvm_lpny_4_ymym_ml
    icon: mdi:baby-bottle
    name: לפני 4
height: 300px
width: 100%
stack: horizontal
direction: up
icon: false
max: 600
show_values: true
positions:
  value: inside
  icon: inside
  name: outside
card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card {
      --bar-card-border-radius: 30px;  # 
    }

Tell me please what is an expected order for horizontal bars: left - from the 1st entity, right - from the last?

English - left - from the 1st entity
Hebrew - right - from the last
but I dont care if it will be right - from the last
It doesn’t matter to me

Ok, I will try to see what could be fixed - in ~10 days