Unable to change sensor theme (color)

Configuration
1

I’ve been following this thread trying to change the color of this template for my air quality sensor, but so far been unable to do so:

sensor.air_quality_index state ‘Good’

and I have this in customize.yaml

sensor.air_quality_index:
  templates:
    theme: >
      if (state === 'Good') return 'green';
      if (state === 'Moderate') return 'yellow';
      if (state === 'Poor') return 'orange';
      if (state === 'Bad') return 'red';
      if (state === 'Very Bad') return 'purple';
      return 'black';

ui-lovelace.yaml:

          - type: entities
            entities:
              - entity: sensor.air_quality_index
                name: Indoor Air Quality
                icon: 'mdi:air-filter'

But the color on screen won’t change

Ideas?

2

yes.
where in the new repo did you find the ‘theme’ you are trying to customize. Did you read the readme or any of the examples at the custom-ui repo?

you’re quoting a post which is about 4 years old…

3

I’ve tried icon_color as well. that didn’t change either.
I read through this page but didn’t find anything helpful:

I could not find anything newer covering what i was trying to do. So this is no longer supported, i suppose

4

well, it has never been supported from within HA core. It always needed the custom-ui custom card. the original is no longer valid for Ha Lovelace, but I (try to ) maintain a version that does, at https://github.com/Mariusthvdb/custom-ui

If you install that you can use those templates and use icon_color.

if you only care for the Frontend, you’d be better of with card-mod, which is always updated by magician Thomas Loven

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5

P.S. Configuration → Settings → Check Configuration reported no errors, so if those entries were no longer supported, I would have thought it would error out there