Ring Tile Card: visualise your sensor data

Hi @swampylee,

Kinda.

A key design goal for ring-tile card is to keep the design clean and configuration simple (or at least as simple as possible). I’ve noticed that some custom cards fall into the trap of offering configuration of everything, which can make adopting the card as a new user difficult and makes getting a good looking outcome hard work.

On ring size, I already offer 6 sizes through the ring_size option, so I’m not that keen to add more. I’ve not offered text size options because I want ring-tile card to be visually consistent with the built-in tile card.

The compromise is to offer configurability for the die-hard configuration nerds (don’t worry, I count myself as one of them!!) by way of card_mod. There are a couple of things I can do to make card_mod work easier:

  • Use more CSS variables to expose commonly tweaked attributes to reduce the need for deep-DOM-diving (#12)
  • I am also contemplating adding a tweaks config option to provide more direct access to commonly used CSS variables to reduce the number of cases requiring card_mod in the first place
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