WTH why cant we set visibility condition on an entities attribute?

Month of "What the heck?!"
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attribute isnt mentioned in Conditional card - Home Assistant

open FR for this: Add attribute condition (for visibility and conditional cards) · home-assistant/frontend · Discussion #21550 · GitHub

so we can set visibility like:

visibility:
  - condition: state
    entity: climate.thermostat
    attribute: hvac_mode
    state: heat
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Same for ‘sun.sun’ and ‘rising’ attribute.

Today I am using helper template to generate new entity as a workaround.

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exactly the entity I also use (among others…) for conditions…
check

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Very frustrating we can’t do this

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is creating a template sensor with the attribute value the only way to bypass this?

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I don’t know if this is the better way but my workaround was to use card_mod and css styles:

card_mod:
style:
ha-card{
display:{% if state_attr(‘climate.fujitsu’,‘temperature’) == 24 %}block{% else %}none{% endif %};
}

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Oh no, I needed this to hide some controls when a fan is on special state. so sad it is not possible…

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since this section in the community is officially dead, Ive opened this allow visibility condition on attribute · home-assistant · Discussion #668 · GitHub in the new discussion section in Github

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