Sometimes, when you are using an binary sensor, the Icon is showing as active in the state of “unclocked” - and inactive when the state is locked. But in certain situations, you want to have it displayed in the opposite: Actve when the sensor is showing LOCKED and inactive, when it is unlocked. …

Agree and adding on to this: Additionally to the state colour, one step deeper, to be considered is the ON/OFF state as well. A lock that is ‘ON’, does it really make sense that this always means the lock is unlocked? In my opinion not.

Another use case to add. I have screens on my patio, which I have as “covers” in HA. Covers are highlighted when they are “up”. I’d like to have the icon highlighted when the screens are “down”.

I have a command line binary sensor (connectivity class) checking the availability of some local service. The icon is colored in “connected” state which is the “normal” state in my case. I would like the icon color to catch my attention when the state is “disconnected”, meaning something is wrong …

A related colour-related use case: I have voltage issues so I want to track when the voltage is outside the regulation limits. I’ve created a binary sensor to track this based on my voltage data that is “On” when the voltage is violating, and “Off” when the voltage is OK. This is fine…but, my weird …

I started writing a new topic and this came up as most relevant. So no progress or HACS options yet? Check how ridiculous this looks: [image]

I think, with the already implemented - and upcomming coloring features, this might actually increase it’s importance. By default, there are defined settings for the colors of specific entities (security related, when is a door safe / unsafe?) But - as we are all individuals, that means, that the …

Oh yes! I would like this option as well. I have some states which I preferred to be the other way around. Shouldn’t be hard to implement : state_color: true state_color_inverse: true Solved! (wishful thinking):wink:

This becomes more and more important to me :wink: For a couple of days I have now a SurePet CatFlap installed. The state for the lock is now shown in my default configuration: state-lock-jammed-color: var(--red-color) #'#F44336' # Red state-lock-locked-color: var(--green-color) #'#4CAF50' # G…

Oud topic, still relevant. My two cents to it, is to not make it an option in Lovelace (entities are potentially presented in multiple places ands various cards). I think an extra attribute to invert the state colouring would be better, where default can be overruled in customise.

Option to invert icon_state coloring

Feature Requests

CChris (Christoph) January 4, 2024, 7:03am 10

[update]
while inverting the color state of an entity / card is possible with card-mod, this does not apply for the “more info” page of the entity.

Therefore, a ‘real’ invert option would be really benefitial.
To add more value to the FR, I’ve randomly collected the topics about “invert xyz” here from the forum: