I constantly find myself adding basically the same set of cards or entities to something …
For example I have several Xiaomi vacuums… and I want this for each one:
… It would be great if I could just set it up 1x then have some parameters that I can change each time I want to use it
… I am thinking that something like this could be done (eg here is a cut down version of my vac pictured above):
You can set a card_templates in the lovelace root (same place you set resources) as follows:
card_templates:
name: XiaomiVac
parameters:
- name: VacSwitchTemplate
- name: VacEntity
card:
entities:
- entity: '{$ VacSwitchTemplate $}'
icon: 'mdi:broom'
name: Clean
- entity: sensor.none
icon: 'mdi:trash-can-outline'
name: Consumables
primary:
attribute: main_brush_left
entity: '{$ VacEntity $}'
name: Main Brush
unit: / 300 h
secondary:
attribute: side_brush_left
entity: '{$ VacEntity $}'
name: Side Brush
unit: /200 h
type: 'custom:multiple-entity-row'
- entity: sensor.none
icon: ' '
name: ' '
primary:
attribute: filter_left
entity: '{$ VacEntity $}'
name: Filter
unit: / 150 h
secondary:
attribute: sensor_dirty_left
entity: '{$ VacEntity $}'
name: Sensor Cleaning
unit: / 30 h
tertiary:
attribute: battery_level
entity: '{$ VacEntity $}'
name: Battery
unit: '%'
type: 'custom:multiple-entity-row'
head:
icon: 'mdi:robot-vacuum'
name: Vacuum
entity: '{$ VacEntity $}'
type: 'custom:fold-entity-row'
Then when you want to use it you can just have a card like:
entities:
- entity: input_number.cleaning_interval
- entity: custom:card_template
name: XiaomiVac
parameters:
- name: VacSwitchTemplate
value: switch.living_room_vacuum_state
- name: VacEntity
value: vacuum.living_room_vacuum
type: entities