Pardon my minimal understanding of code, but I think I’m missing something when it comes to creating a custom Lovelace dashboard via a custom template card. I’ve come a very long way with my dashboard, graduating from basic cards, to panel views, to 100% custom everything, but there are a few basic Lovelace cards I’d still like to employ but just can’t get them to work within the custom config template card or picture-elements card.
All my tabs are built the same: Elements, inside a picture-elements card, inside a custom-config-template-card, where as every TYPE of card is custom because only custom cards seem to work here. Is this by design or am I missing something?
For example, if I simply wanted to use the Lovelace Thermostat card, I get an error (relevant code included):
title: Home
views:
- title: Misc
panel: true
cards:
- type: custom:config-template-card
entities:
- light.zachs_lamp
card:
type: picture-elements
image: /local/mobile_wallpaper.png
elements:
- type: thermostat
entity: climate.hallway
style:
left: 50%
top: 50%
width: 15%
This results in “Unknown type encountered: thermostat”. But if I use any other “custom” card here it works just fine. And I’ve been fine with custom cards so far, but there’s a few Lovelace entities I’d love to use.
And just to show I’m not a total idiot, here’s my Spotify tab:
