Show next dawn/next dusk in lovelace entities card

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noob question: I’d like to put the time of the next dawn/next dusk in an entities card from the sun component. I am not sure how to extract this information from the component, although i feel this should be quite easy! In my ui-lovelace.yaml I’ve tried:

views:
  - title: Climate
    cards:
      - type: entities
        title: Solar info
        entities:
          - entity: sun.next_dusk
          - entity: sun.next_dawn

In my configuration.yaml I also have

sun:

And i am getting the “Entity not available, etc” highlighted in yellow in the output

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I think this is the best you’ll get unless something else has been added to change Lovelace funtionality:

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Thanks finity, i gave it a go without any success, although i am unsure my implementation was correct. I copied the js file to /config/www/ and included this at the top of my ui-lovelace.yaml:

resources:
  - url: /local/entity-attributes-card.js?v=2
    type: js

Then:

views:
  - title: CLimate
    cards:
      - type: custom:entity-attributes-card
        title: Attributes Card
        heading_name: List
        heading_state: States
        filter:
          include:
            - key: sun.next_dusk
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Take a look here to create a sensor from an attribute:

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That’s too easy!

I was looking for new-fangled Lovelace way of doing things…:smile:

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This way you can not only display it - like @jamq’s solution does and I have a few of these myself - it also allows you to refer to the sensors in automations.

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Agreed.

I was just responding to the OP’s use case.

Your way is definitely better if you have the need to use the sensor in further automations.

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Just depends on what you’re trying to do.

And as much as I like Lovelace, I find myself too often trying to ‘put programmatic approaches’ into what I think I should keep to ‘just setting up display functionality’.

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Just tried @chairstacker’s solution and got it to work! So thank you. :smiley:

Your solution was also more generally helpful in helping me to understand how the attributes of components such as sun are structured.