Lovelace card to display pending tasks

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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

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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).

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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.