WTH does the conditional card not allow OR conditions, only ALL?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" (2020)
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I would like to show a conditional card if one (or more of) of the conditions is met, not necessarily all.

See for example the below card config.
This will currently only show if there is a pending update for both HA and HACS, but will not show if there is only an update for either HA or HACS.

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I would like to use this for alerting purposes based states/thresholds, when the situation is normal nothing should be shown (minimalistic design)
I imagine there could be plenty of other uses as well.

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I was able to get it working using an entity filter card. A bit counter-intuitive to have separate card types, but meh.

type: entity-filter
entities:
  - entity: binary_sensor.updater
    state_filter:
      - operator: '!='
        value: 'off'
  - entity: sensor.hacs
    state_filter:
      - operator: '!='
        value: 0
card:
  type: glance
  title: Updates are Available
show_empty: false

EDIT: Added show_empty: false to prevent it showing if no updates at all are available.

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Simply put, we just need an or option for the condition card.

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Bump. Could definitely use this about now if someone was kind enough to develop a working and/or statement.

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You can make a template sensor for the time being

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Thanks for this. I was looking for a solution to the same problem you had and whilst I’d tested it with entity filters, I didn’t like that it still showed the title if there was no entities as it looked really ugly.
I was just missing the show_empty: false option

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