Service Button Widget Icon Changes When Togled

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Long time lurker, first time poster and general newbie to Home Assistant.

I have an August Smart Lock on my front door. I used the HA Companion for Android to make a widget on my phone that locks/unlocks the front door when pressed. My implementation works great and does what I want. Where my problem is, I would like my chosen icon for the widget to change based on the state of my lock (i.e. show an open lock icon when unlocked and a closed lock icon when locked)

A bit more info on how I created this in case it matters.

I made an input boolean and used it as the trigger for 2 automations, one to lock and another to unlock based on the state of my input boolean. On my phone I created a service button widget that calls the input_boolean.toggle service and used the entity input_boolean.front_door_key

alias: Boolean Lock
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.front_door_key
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
condition: [ ]
action:
  - device_id: ********************
    domain: lock
    entity_id: lock.front_door
    type: lock
mode: single

alias: Boolean Unlock
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.front_door_key
    from: 'on'
    to: 'off'
condition: [ ]
action:
  - device_id: ********************
    domain: lock
    entity_id: lock.front_door
    type: unlock
mode: single

I don’t even know if this functionality exists in Companion, but I’d like to know either way
Thanks

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the service widget does not read the state of entities it just performs the action…there is an entity state widget and template widget to display the state…its hard to do a state widget button because the state will not stay in sync

3

Thank you, that all makes sense. Now I won’t spend a few days trying to make something work that just can’t happen.