Yeah. Unfortunately with the method used it is using the long press defined in HA core. So if you don’t have an element that supports long-press in your view, it won’t work
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@RomRider we should probably make a note this or have a fallback for when long press cannot be found. Once we implement roll-up, we should be able to have our own hold implementation.
I suggest we update the documentation for now and add a issue for later.
@petro I added an anchor for styles just yesterday! But, what is the scope for anchors? That is, if I define them in a block early in the ui-lovelace will they be available to all areas below, including into !include files? Or, are anchor scopes perhaps limited somehow?
Starting to integrate the new hold_action into my UI and wanted to share a quick demo GIF to maybe give people an interesting idea: https://gfycat.com/orangeminiatureblacklemur
I have a “Daily Stats” and “Weekly Stats” that are integrated into the same button now thanks to hold_action. Default is daily view and if you long press it swaps it out to a weekly view. Also shoutout to @iantrich Lovelace Text Divider Row.
On the right side is imo a cool usage of both state and animation (blink). When I press the Printer button it shows a conditional card underneath with all my printer stats, but the cool thing is how the icon changes to a big green blinking arrow pointing down so it’s obvious what happened and where to look. When @RomRider awesome looking WIP layout PR gets merged that printer settings button should look nicer too 
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@RomRider I have some issues with the tap_action. In the cases (one example below) I replaced the single line “action: more_info” with the two lines below (according to examples in Github) the more_info does not show. (cleared cache etc)
type: 'custom:button-card'
entity: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
icon: 'mdi:bell'
tap_action:
action: more_info
show_state: false
show_name: true
state:
- value: disarmed
color: 'rgb(255, 0, 0)'
icon: 'mdi:bell-off'
name: 'OFF'
- value: pending
color: 'rgb(251, 210, 41)'
icon: 'mdi:security'
name: PENDING
- value: armed_away
color: 'rgb(0, 255, 0)'
icon: 'mdi:security'
name: ARMEDSorry @Tyfoon, examples in the documentation are not completely up to date 
more_info is deprecated, you should use more-info
We’re going to fix the documentation soon.
@RomRider you are amazingly fast. Have been waiting for someone to implement the hold_action for months (I am not a programmer or I would have done it myself haha).
I will definitely try the card again now, but need to find the time to rewrite everything. Amazing job and thank you.
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Ah, that is a subtle difference;-)
Just updated. None of my buttons work. Here is some example code. What am I missing?
- cards:
- color: 'rgb(107, 181, 255)'
entity: light.living_room_lights
icon: 'mdi:lightbulb'
name: Living Room
type: 'custom:button-card'
color_type: icon
tap_action:
action: toggle
hold_action:
action: none
- color: 'rgb(107, 181, 255)'
entity: light.bedroom_lights
icon: 'mdi:lightbulb'
name: Bedroom
type: 'custom:button-card'
hold_action:
action: more-info
tap_action:
action: toggle
- color: 'rgb(107, 181, 255)'
entity: light.master_bathroom_light
icon: 'mdi:lightbulb'
size: 40%
name: Master Bath
type: 'custom:button-card'
tap_action:
action: toggle
hold_action:
action: none
type: horizontal-stackAny errors in the browser console? I would venture a guess that you are having errors on not having longpress defined. Try placing a regular entity-button on the view as well
It’s related to longpress. How do I define it? Is that the same as hold_action?
Add an entity-button in your view and long press will work. It’s a caveat of the current implementation. We’ll work on this in the future with @iantrich to not rely on home-assistant’s implementation.
Thanks. Am I not able to use this version without the hold_action? I removed all references to it, but still not able to toggle anything.
You can, but have to have something on the view that implements longpress still:
- entity-button
- glance
- picture-entity
- picture-glance
Like @RomRider said, we’ll find a way around this
Version 0.4.1
New features
-
confirmationnow takes a free text to display in the confirmation box - Fallback to simple click support when longpress is not found. Make sure you read this for long press support!
Fixes
- Fixes #114 (rounded corners with
color_type: card) and supports card-modder now
Breaking changes
-
confirmationis now taking a string.
@scfigg, version 0.4.1 which was just released fixes this. Only single click support if longpress is not found.
Version 0.5.0
New features
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show_units: true/false -
units: overrides the default units of a sensor -
overflowing text will be cut at the end with
...
-
layout:
Fixes #103
This option enables you to modify the layout of the card.It is fully compatible with every
show_*option. Make sure you setshow_state: trueif you want to show the stateMultiple values are possible, see the image below for examples:
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vertical(default value if nothing is provided): Everything is centered vertically on top of each other -
icon_name_state: Everything is aligned horizontally, name and state are concatenated -
name_state: Icon sits on top of name and state concatenated on one line -
icon_name: Icon and name are horizontally aligned, state is centered below -
icon_state: Icon and state are horizontally aligned, name is centered below -
icon_name_state2nd: Icon, name and state are horizontally aligned, name is above state -
icon_state_name2nd: Icon, name and state are horizontally aligned, state is above name
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