Show Button Status

Configuration Frontend
1

I want to hide a switch from the dashboard and insert a button to a) only turn on, not off and b) allow another automation to run at the same time. This does exactly what I want

show_name: true
show_icon: true
type: button
tap_action:
  action: perform-action
  perform_action: switch.turn_on
  target:
    entity_id: switch.relay6
entity: switch.relay6
show_state: true
view_layout:
  position: sidebar

but that frontend button is a separate card. I could live with a horizontal stack of six of them, but I’d prefer to place them in a list of other entities in an entities card. Solved that one too with an input_button and this automation

alias: Raum-5-An
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - input_button.r5_an
condition: []
action:
  - action: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.relay1
mode: single

The problem here is, I lose the icon’s colour change for the “on” status. Is there any way to get this here too? If not, horizontal stack it is.

2

Solved it. Should have read the entities card documentation fully in the first place. There are types button and buttons. And I now see there is no need at all for an extra input_button helper.

3

Not quite solved after all. I have now tried all four permutations I could think of.

  - type: buttons
    entities:
      - entity: switch.relay1
        name: R5 Bad
        tap_action:
          action: perform-action
          perform_action: automation.trigger
          target:
            entity_id: automation.r5_an
          data:
            skip_condition: true
        icon: mdi:heating-coil
      - type: button
        entity: switch.relay1
        name: R5 Heizung
        show_name: true
        show_icon: true
        tap_action:
          action: perform-action
          perform_action: automation.trigger
          target:
            entity_id: automation.r5_an
          data:
            skip_condition: true
        icon: mdi:heating-coil
  - entity: switch.relay1
    type: button
    name: R5 Heizung
    show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: automation.trigger
      target:
        entity_id: automation.r5_an
      data:
        skip_condition: true
    icon: mdi:heating-coil
    state_color: true
  - type: button
    entity: switch.relay1
    name: R5 Bad
    show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: automation.trigger
      target:
        entity_id: automation.r5_an
      data:
        skip_condition: true
    icon: mdi:heating-coil
    state_color: true

As you see, the state colour is shown for “buttons” but not for “button”, which I would prefer. Also the “buttons” have a shaded background contrary to what the “entities” documentation shows. My template only changes active colours for the colourblind, nothing else.

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