New to playing with lovelace. When I use the thermostat card with my Nest it doesn’t show me if its actively heating or cooling - is that normal/expected?
I am glad you posted this, I wasn’t sure if I was just doing something wrong since the documentation page for the card shows ‘Cooling’ in the example. I have the same issue with my thermostat (iComfort Wifi). Since I am using a custom component to interface with my thermostat I did some playing with the code and found that the Lovelace thermostat card will only report the state if it is passed as one of the predefined hass STATE_* constants. In reviewing the code for several thermostats it doesn’t look like any (or many) of them do this.
When I changed my code to pass STATE_COOL, STATE_HEAT, and STATE_IDLE for the respective states, the thermostat card would display ‘Cool’, ‘Heat’ and ‘Idle’ as required. The annoying thing about this is the state is ‘cooling’ and ‘heating’ not ‘cool’ and ‘heat’ which are the modes. I don’t know if the plan is to add new STATE constants and update each of the thermostat integrations or to change the Lovelace card to report whatever is being passed as the state by the climate component.