Lovelace card to display pending tasks

I’ve set up a tablet to act as a dashboard, and I’d like to add a card to it highlighting any issues which we might need to take care of.

For example, remote batteries getting low.

My current attempt uses an entity-filter card and booleans which are hidden if they are disabled. Automations in node-red will enable these booleans as they become things which we need to pay attention to.

This is not ideal for a couple of reasons:

  • We could accidentally disable them from this page, so if I use this method I’d like some way to make them view-only
  • I have to create a boolean for each potential issue I implement
  • I can’t display more information about the issue

I’m thinking the ideal thing would probably be a text array which could be set from node-red and viewed in Lovelace. Then node-red could add to and subtract from that array as issues come and go, and lovelace could hide the card if it’s empty, but as far as I can tell there’s no entity that would allow that.

What approach have/would you take for this?

Cheers

I don’t know if it is exactly what you are looking for, but the auto-entities card could do a lot more than a simple entity filter.

In combination with layout-card, card-mod and even lovelace_gen virtually everything is possible. (All from the same developer).

Oh that’s perfect for this particular use case, cheers. Will implement that. Will have to see how it works out with issues I add in the future though.