Tracker card (custom_updater) -Title icon

Tomahawk · March 2, 2019, 9:51am

I am not able to change the icon In the title for the Tracker card. Would be nice to be able to do so.

This does not work:
title: mdi:update Update Custom code
or
icon: mdi:update

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DavidFW1960 · March 2, 2019, 9:56am

It doesn’t work for any other cards either. If you change the name from Updates, it doesn’t show an icon either. If you check the py file custom_updater.py, you will see it’s using an ansi character… you can find a different character, but like any other card, there is no icon…

Tomahawk · March 2, 2019, 9:59am

Hopefully the developers will implement the icon-functionality/tag.

If you want your GUI to be uniform for your HA setup, icons should be configurable as default for Lovelace cards.

ludeeus · March 2, 2019, 10:25am

You can most definitely change it. use the title option.

Tomahawk · March 2, 2019, 3:06pm

Thanks for replying.

But I don’t get it. What do I write in the title string to get “mdi:selected-icon” to be displayed as a part of the title?

ludeeus · March 2, 2019, 3:16pm

oh. no that will not work, but copy any icon from https://gist.github.com/roachhd/1f029bd4b50b8a524f3c and paste it in the title and it should show.

Tomahawk · March 2, 2019, 3:51pm

VSo, trying this, which I now see works here in this post, but not in my Hassio. I have cleared my browsers cache.
Sigh…its hard to be a N00b, where I am doing wrong?

type: ‘custom:tracker-card’
title: ‘ Update Custom code’

By the way, the Mini Graph gard looks like it inherits the sensor icon, so maybe possible to pick up a mdi:icon in other cards too?

DavidFW1960 · March 3, 2019, 1:43am

Here is mine:

          - type: custom:tracker-card
            title: "\U0001F4E3 Custom Card Updates"

If you change the title/enter a title then it doesn’t use an icon. So I looked in the code for the js and saw that Ludeeus was using \U0001F4E3 as the icon so I added that to the title and it workd with my ‘custom title’

I then did a google search for U0001F4E3 and saw it’s a unicode character… so I think any unicode character will work… see a list here http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/miscellaneous_symbols_and_pictographs/list.htm

I mistakenly said ansi character in my first post.

Your radioactive is here https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2622

Maybe try \U00002622… here… it works