Lovelace Entities card - show state not toggle switch

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Howdy! Happy new year!

I’m trying to figure out how to show some entities on an entities lovelace card that just show the state, not also offer a toggle to manually control them.

I know about the glance card (not what I’m looking for) and also tried using the type: attribute style card but the state isn’t considered an attribute so that doesn’t work for me.

Any ideas? Specifically, to clarify, here’s my example of what I have now. The entity about outside security lights I don’t want a toggle, just the first line that is supposed to show a state.

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And here’s the code for the above section:

      - entity: input_boolean.halloween_day
        name: Halloween events
      - type: attribute
        entity: input_boolean.outside_lighting
        attribute: state
      - entity: input_boolean.outside_lighting
        name: Outdoor security lights enabled
      - entity: input_boolean.alarm_armed
        name: Alarm armed state
      - entity: timer.alarm_armed_time
        name: Alarm armed timer
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Have you looked at this HACS extension? For me, it’s one of the best additions to Lovelace along with card mod:

3

Just use type: simple-entity :


type: entities
entities:
  - type: section
    label: Automationen
  - entity: automation.weihnachtszeit_start_ende
    type: simple-entity
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@CO_4X4
That’s crazy cool and didn’t know that existed. I’ll take a look and hopefully it integrates into my existing lovelace dashboards as special card entries.

5

Thanks for that - basically that’s what I was looking for. Wonder why simple-entity has zero hits on:

6

oh interesting, it’s on this page instead:

7

Those two are excellent and I use them all the time, but the flexibility of the Multiple Entities Row really amps things up for data.

Here’s one of many I use, this one is for my humidifier in my bedroom:

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8

can you share your yaml file for example?