Strip card with nested attributes?

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Hi all,

First post on the forum so I’m sorry if this isn’t the correct category for this…

but I’m having trouble trying to understand how to use nested attributes in a certain integration.

So I’m using a HACS integration called
(GitHub - bremor/bureau_of_meteorology: Custom component for retrieving weather information from the Bureau of Meteorology.) and trying to use the sensor “sensor.xxxx.warnings” to display the current Weather warnings for my area.

So when there’s an active warning it’s displayed like this…

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And I want to display the short_title or title attribute in this integration
(GitHub - cataseven/Strip-Card: This custom card displays multiple Home Assistant entities in a sleek, horizontally scrolling ticker. With full support for global and per-entity customization, it lets you monitor system metrics, sensor data, or device states in a compact, dynamic format.)

The card I have set up is like this

type: custom:strip-card
duration: 40
transparent: true
show_icon: false
continuous_scroll: true
border_radius: 12px
card_width: 100%
entities:
  - entity: sensor.REDACTED_warnings
    name: Weather warning
    attribute: warnings
    value_color: "#f0f000"
    name_color: "#f2761d"

But all that is displayed is “weather warnings: [ object object ]”

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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This is how it’s displayed

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You’re going to need to use the value_template option.

type: custom:strip-card
duration: 40
transparent: true
show_icon: false
continuous_scroll: true
border_radius: 12px
card_width: 100%
entities:
  - entity: sensor.REDACTED_warnings
    name: Weather warning
    value_template: |
      {{ states['sensor.REDACTED_warnings'].attributes.warnings[0].short_title }}
    value_color: "#f0f000"
    name_color: "#f2761d"

Whatever version of “Jinja2 templates” they are using in the card does not seem to support filters like map or using loops, so there doesn’t seem to be a good way to get multiple warnings if they exist. If that is something you want, you may need to handle that in a Template sensor

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I see, thank you so much for this,

{{ states['sensor.REDACTED_warnings'].attributes.warnings[0].short_title }}

that was exactly what I was trying to figure out with templates but just didn’t know how to do attributes,

Thank you heaps, I tested this and works great!

Let’s say there is a second warning along side the first, would the template be something like this?

{{ states['sensor.REDACTED_warnings'].attributes.warnings[1].short_title }}

Just changing the 0 > 1? And would just display the second alert? I’d probably just have a seperate hidden strip card for whenever there is a second alert.

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Yes, changing the number inside the square brackets will change which item from the warnings list is being used.

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