I am a long time hass.io user, but have relatively recently started to experiment with the new Lovelace UI. Lovelace seems very sensitive to config and versions, particularly for some custom cards. I am getting the “Custom element doesn’t exist error” in about every other custom card I try. I find it very hard to debug the issue and it remains “hit and miss” for me. Also I haven’t yet figured out if the actual folder (as long as it is placed somewhere under /config/www/) matters as long as the resource component in the ui-lovelace.yaml points to the correct path for the js file.
@woody4165
Thanks, good to know that the js files can be located in different sub folders of /config/www.
When it comes to wether HA finds the resources or not, seems to be a different issue. As I said, it has so far been “hit or miss” for me. I have really made an effort to point to the right filename under the correct path, but some custom cards have HA throw this dreadful error no matter what I try while others work without issue. I have even tried to have only one resource and one custom card at a time without succeeding with e.g. monster-card or weather-card.
I have shared some code in this post. Sorry for being so persistent about this, but it is really bugging me that I can’t make it work! And I don’t seem to be the only one…
@kuuji I’m really liking this card. I’m not sure if this card can do this already with the correct config but I would like to have a button which changes icon colour based on the state of an entity_id but has a click action to run a script. Is this possible?
Hi all,
i have some issue with css style.
It’s like there’s another white card under the one I’m styling.
For example if I use border-radius i get something like this.
I’m trying to set up a card to toggle all of my downstairs lights on / off, but the issue is that it is toggling each individual light state, not the group state. So I end up with half the lights turning off and the other half on.
Hope that makes sense?!?
My code:
It makes sense. I just don’t know what you are expecting. You want one button to toggle all lights on or off. But if there is already a mix (some lights on, some off), what do you want the button to do? All on? Or all off?
I essentially want the button to act like the standard group toggle switch. So if anything in that group is on, it turns everything off. The image shows my standard group toggle for my hall. the group is ‘on’ if anything in that group is on, and only ‘off’ if everything is off. I’d just like that functionality in a nicer button.
I understand that I could easily add an on & an off button, but I don’t really want to use all that screen real estate.
You might have noticed that the latest release of home assistant includes a button-card.
This is not my initiative and I was not included at all into this, even though it was clearly inspired by my project.
You may also have noticed that the official button card doesn’t include all of the features that I’ve been adding for you guys. It looks like the developer has no intention of including these in the future.
On my side I’ll continue working on my project and try and include the features you guys ask.
Yeah I was wondering about that. I read through the docs and saw it doesn’t nearly have what yours does, what’s the point of dumbing down someone’s work? It just confuses users more than anything. Keep up the good job on your version! It’s way better.
You should add these features to the HA core. There is no reason to keep working on custom cards. It is easier to get smaller PRs accepted than trying to add everything.
The project has been around for few months and should have been submitted to the core long time back.
@arsaboo someone on discord told me that some features will never be brought over and that basically this custom project will be the only way to access advanced features.
Besides that, I don’t feel great about this whole thing. If the dev that created this fork in the core repo wanted me to help, He could have mentioned me on the original PR or even here on the forum.
At this point, I don’t feel that my help is welcomed/needed.
That definitely is not the intention and I am sorry that you feel that ways. Paulus had actually indicated that he was not too happy about folks just developing custom components and not contributing to the core. Since many of these elements were not included in the core, the devs took it upon themselves to then include some of the elements. Now that the initial foundation is laid for many of these elements, it should be easy for others to contribute and the devs certainly hope so. The dev did credit your card in the original PR. You are obviously welcome to work on things that make you happy, but given your skills, I would strongly encourage you to start contributing to the core.
I think I can speak for a lot of other people as well when I say your work is highly appreciated. Really loving the button card you have made
Keep up the good work, either as a custom card or as part of the core.
It does seem strange that rather than invite you to submit a PR they justwent and did it themselves! that being said dont let it leave a sour taste in your mouth, should definitely still submit PRs to fully migrate the best lovelace card fully into core!
