Lovelace - conditional

Configuration Frontend
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Here is one of my conditional setup:

- type: conditional
  conditions:
    - entity: media_player.plex_sfroku_stick
      state: "playing"

Is it possible to add “paused” in the state as “or” (not “and”).
Basically I want it to show only if state is playing OR paused.

Not sure about format for this…
Thanks!

2

I would like to know this too

3

Easiest way to do this is to duplicate the entry. The state can’t be both playing and paused. Anyways your config would look something like this:

- type: conditional
  conditions:
    - entity: media_player.plex_sfroku_stick
      state: "playing"
  card:
    type: entities
    entities:
      - device_tracker.demo_paulus
      - cover.kitchen_window
      - group.kitchen
      - lock.kitchen_door
      - light.bed_light
- type: conditional
  conditions:
    - entity: media_player.plex_sfroku_stick
      state: "paused"
  card:
    type: entities
    entities:
      - device_tracker.demo_paulus
      - cover.kitchen_window
      - group.kitchen
      - lock.kitchen_door
      - light.bed_light
4

This is what I do with complex conditions to display different cards (or similar cards):

5

yes, that works, thanks!

- type: conditional
  conditions:
    - entity: media_player.plex_sfroku_3__salon
      state: "playing"
  card:
    type: media-control
    entity: media_player.plex_sfroku_3__salon  
- type: conditional
  conditions:
    - entity: media_player.plex_sfroku_3__salon
      state: "paused"
  card:
    type: media-control
    entity: media_player.plex_sfroku_3__salon
6

Thanks. It makes the authoring page a bit messy. Already I find that one of the draw back of lovelace is that it all sits on 1 massive page…
so that’s 3 “duplications” because you have 2 conditions. if I had 3 conditions, it would make 8 duplications, 4 conditions would make it 16 “duplications”. Maybe I’ll create lovelace UI specific template sensors that will do the conditions and use this as a single entity filter…

7

Yeah, it’s a pita currently. I believe they will continually update how the configurations work in the long run. Right now we are in the beginning stages.

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8

Just want to share that conditional doesn’t work on gauge cards (0.83.3)

9

Is there no way to make a single entity conditional?

10

This is how you make a single entity conditional… Unless you are referring to an entity inside some other card.

11

The interesting part is that the state_not is actually or.

So you can make your condition to be state_not all the other than playing and paused. This conditional card shows if media_player.kokkenet_hojtaler is playing or paused.

- type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: media_player.kokkenet_hojtaler
        state_not: "idle"
      - entity: media_player.kokkenet_hojtaler
        state_not: "stopped"
      - entity: media_player.kokkenet_hojtaler
        state_not: "on"
      - entity: media_player.kokkenet_hojtaler
        state_not: "off"
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