Zodiac Sign Sensor

[sgvj]

I created a Western Astrology Zodiac Sign Sensor because as much as I love code and science, I enjoy taking a break with a good bit of whimsy, often esoteric .

All styling is inherited from the UI so should look ok whatever your theme.

Coming soon:

• Tarot card sensor
• Mood avatar

Screenshot of how it appears in various standard lovelace cards and ‘custom header’:

To install create a sensor with @123’s post below which is better code than mine.
[Removed code]

I’m aware that this may not be 100% accurate. Very happy to know if someone has a better way of doing this, especially if it adjusts for leap years.

[Foxxy (Reps)]

Very nice Will look into leap year but it comes again in 4 years…
BTW You can remove

entity_id: sensor.date

as it is now deprecated in template sensors

[sgvj]

Updated, thanks

[123 (Taras)]

For this simple Template Sensor, you aren’t obligated to create an automation to update it. You can simply add sensor.date to the template and it will be automatically assigned a listener (in other words, it will behave like in previous versions where you used entity_id: sensor.date).

- platform: template
  sensors:
    zodiac:
      friendly_name: Zodiac Sign
      value_template: >-
        {% set x = states('sensor.date') %}
        {% set yday = now().timetuple().tm_yday %}
        {% if yday < 20 %} Capricorn
        {% elif yday < 50 %} Aquarius
        {% elif yday < 80 %} Pisces
        {% elif yday < 110 %} Aries
        {% elif yday < 141 %} Taurus
        {% elif yday < 172 %} Gemini
        {% elif yday < 204 %} Cancer
        {% elif yday < 235 %} Leo
        {% elif yday < 266 %} Virgo
        {% elif yday < 296 %} Libra
        {% elif yday < 326 %} Scorpio
        {% elif yday < 356 %} Sagittarius
        {% elif yday < 366 %} Capricorn
        {% else %} Error
        {% endif %}
      icon_template: >
        {% set sign = states('sensor.zodiac') %}
        {% if sign in ['Error', 'unavailable', 'unknown'] %}
          mdi:alert-circle
        {% else %}
          mdi:zodiac-{{ sign | lower}}
        {% endif %}

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EDIT

Corrected typo; changed mid to mdi.

[Foxxy (Reps)]

Yes Taras 123,
Your icon_template is elegant (as Jinja can be)… but only for English language.
Thanks, JR

[123 (Taras)]

@Foxxy

but only for English language

True but nowhere in this thread is there a design requirement to support multiple languages so that’s why I reduced icon_template.

If there’s a need to handle any language, I would use a dictionary to store the names.

[pollinolas]

[123 (Taras)]

Don’t you love when auto-correct thinks it’s doing you a favor by changing mdi to mid?

Thanks for reporting it; corrected.

[sgvj]

0.116 Has a Zodiac Sensor
Thanks @JulienTant, is it leapyear compatible?
Please consider calling it ‘Western Zodiac’, since over 1/5th of the world’s population expects something else.

Zodiac

[akszyn_pl (Lord Adrian)]

how to have the view as in the first post because I paste this code and I have all in red

[123 (Taras)]

@akszyn_pl

I paste this code

The error message reports:

No card type configured

It’s not a card it’s a Template Sensor. If you didn’t paste it into the sensor: domain of your configuration.yaml file (or sensors.yaml file if that’s where your sensors are defined) then you pasted it in the wrong place.

[sgvj]

To use this with the new Zodiac integration and get a card like mine, use this in your card:

type: button
tap_action:
  action: toggle
entity: sensor.zodiac
show_state: true
show_name: false