Home Assistant dashboard custom element: Auto-entities

Here you find Home Assistant (lovelace) dashboard examples related to the custom element auto-entities which you can easily use on your own dashboards.

Auto-entities is a very powerful addon card that can let you make dynamic entity lists based on multiple filters, include and exclude entities and different type of sorting.

The git repository with also all options and some examples can be found at https://github.com/thomasloven/lovelace-auto-entities

Install it via this button

Temperatures (rounded, sorted and colored)
Humidity (rounded, sorted and colored)
Show lights ordered by state
Show only the lights which are ‘on’ at the moment
Latest activities (motions and doors)
Missing devices
Full moon (single condition)
Only X days left (multiple conditions with AND)
With attribute data
Chores

Temperatures (rounded, sorted and colored)

Show all temperature sensors in order of their temperature from high to low. And show the rounded temperature to a real number and for temperature higher than ideal give them an orange or red color. Blue icons when the temperature is below 10 degrees.

# Sourcecode by vdbrink.github.io
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  show_header_toggle: false
  state_color: false
  title: Temperaturen aflopend
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: sensor.temp*.temperature
      options:
        type: custom:template-entity-row
        state: |
          {{ states(config.entity)|round(0)}} °C
        style: |
          :host {
            --paper-item-icon-color:
             {% set level = states(config.entity)|round(0) %}
             {% if level >= 26 %} firebrick
             {% elif level >= 25 %} orange
             {% elif level < 10 %} blue
             {% else %} var(--primary-text-color)
             {% endif %} 
             ;
           }
show_empty: false
sort:
  method: state
  reverse: true
  numeric: true

Humidity (rounded, sorted and colored)

Show all humidity sensors in order of their humidity from high to low and only when the value is higher or equal than 65%.
Hide sensor temp12 and with value unavailable.
Show the rounded humidity to a real number and for humidity higher than 70% red, higher 60% orange, higher than 55% white.

# Sourcecode by vdbrink.github.io
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  show_header_toggle: false
  state_color: false
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: sensor.temp*_humidity_rounded
      options:
        type: custom:template-entity-row
        state: |
          {{ states(config.entity)|round(0)}} %
        style: |
          :host {
            --paper-item-icon-color:
             {% set level = states(config.entity)|round(0) %}
             {% if level >= 70 %} firebrick
             {% elif level >= 60 %} orange
             {% elif level >= 55 %} white
             {% else %} var(--primary-text-color)
             {% endif %} 
             ;
           }
  exclude:
    - entity_id: sensor.temp12_humidity
    - state: unavailable
    - state: <= 65
show_empty: false
sort:
  method: state
  reverse: true
  numeric: true  

Show lights ordered by state

Show the lights which are currently on always on top.
Hide also the unavailable ones.

# Sourcecode by vdbrink.github.io
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  show_header_toggle: false
  state_color: false
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: light.*
  exclude:
    - state: "unavailable"
sort:
  method: state
  reverse: true

Show only the lights which are ‘on’ at the moment

# Sourcecode by vdbrink.github.io
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:auto-entities
show_empty: false
card:
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - domain: light
      state: "on"
      options:
        tap_action:
          action: toggle

Latest activities (motions and doors)

Show the latest 10 active motion-, presence- and contact door sensors which are changed in the last 30 minutes.

# Sourcecode by vdbrink.github.io
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  state_color: true
  title: Latest activities
filter:
  include:
    # active motion sensors
    - domain: binary_sensor
      state: 'on'
      attributes:
        device_class: motion
      options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
    # active presence sensors
    - domain: binary_sensor
      state: 'on'
      attributes:
        device_class: presence
      options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
    # contact/door sensors
    - domain: binary_sensor
      entity_id: '*_contact'
      options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
  exclude:
    - last_changed: '> 30m ago'
sort:
  method: last_changed
  count: 10
  reverse: true

Missing devices

Show devices which didn’t change their value for more than 1440 minutes (1 day).

# Sourcecode by vdbrink.github.io
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  state_color: true
  title: Missing devices
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: /sensor.*_temperature/
      options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
        last_changed: '> 1440'
    - domain: binary_sensor
      attributes:
        device_class: motion
      options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
        last_changed: '> 1440'
    - entity_id: /sensor.*_contact/
      options:
        secondary_info: last-changed
        last_changed: '> 1440'
sort:
  method: last_changed
  count: 15
  reverse: false

Full moon (single condition)

Show this only when the entity sensor.moon has the status full_moon.

# Sourcecode by vdbrink.github.io
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: sensor.moon
      state: full_moon
show_empty: false

Only X days left (multiple conditions with AND)

For the paper pickup day, I only want this visible when there are only three days left.

Show only when the number of days is less than 4 AND more than -1.

See here how to create a day countdown based on a date.

# Sourcecode by vdbrink.github.io
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
filter:
  include:
    - entity_id: sensor.paper_waste_pickup_countdown
      state 1: "< 4"
      state 2: "> -1"

With attribute data

Show all room presence entities and as secondary_info an attribute value, in this case the distance attribute.

type: custom:auto-entities
card:
  type: entities
  state_color: true
  title: Tracker
filter:
  include:
    - domain: sensor
      entity_id: '*.room_presence'
      options:
        type: custom:multiple-entity-row
        secondary_info:
          attribute: distance
  exclude:
    - state: unknown
    - state: unavailable
sort:
  method: last-changed
  reverse: true

Chores

I created a separated page about this subject where I use multiple auto entities lists to show which chores must be done and which are already done.

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