Home Card

A quick glance of the state of your home in Home Assistant Lovelace UI.

Initial work on UI editor (only some options can be edited):

Note: This card is still in early development (preview/proof-of-concept), beware of bugs and lacking features!

Features

• Graphical representation of your home with different themes
• Displays things such as weather, state of lights and garage door as well as arbitrary sensors
• Lovelace UI editor for some options (still early work)
• Flexible tap and hold actions (same as for entity-button)
• Create your own custom themes!
• Transparent or regular paper card background

Roadmap

Some things I want to add in upcoming releases:

• More house types and better graphics
• Extend with additional overlays for things like alarm, people and doors
• More ways to customize how the card looks and feel
• Extend or override existing themes using custom_themes
• More improved Lovelace UI editor
• Support for custom_updater
• Better development environment with linting, etc.

Install

Simple Install

1. Download home-card.js, themes.js and themes and copy them into config/www/home-card (create the home-card directory)

2. Add a reference to home-card/home-card.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml

resources:
  - url: /local/home-card/home-card.js?v=0
    type: module

Git Install

1. Clone this repository into your www-directory: git clone https://github.com/postlund/home-card.git

2. Add a reference to home-card/home-card.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml

resources:
  - url: /local/home-card/home-card.js?v=0
    type: module

Custom updater

Not using this yet...

Updating

If you...

• manually copied the files, just download the latest files and overwrite what you already have
• cloned the repository from Github, just do git pull to update

... and increase ?v=X to ?vX+1.

Using the card

Card layout

The card is split into three different areas:

Explanation of each area:

• Weather area (Red): Displays current weather with an icon (e.g. sun or cloud) and temperature. Name of location is displayed as well. Controlled by the weather option.
• House area (Green): Main visualization of the house. Consists of overlay images that can be shown or hidden depending on an entity state. A car overlay (image) can for instance be shown if device_tracker.car has the state home. Controlled by the entities option.
• Resources (Blue): Simplistic view of sensors. Controlled by the resources option.

Both the weather and resources areas are optional and will not displayed if omitted from the configuration. The house area are however mandatory.

Options

Name	Type	Default	Description
type	string	required	custom:home-card
theme	string	required	Name of a theme, see supported themes
background	string	transparent	Supported values: empty, transparent, paper-card
weather	string	optional	weather entity used for displaying location and temperature
entities	object	optional	List of entity objects
resources	object	optional	List of resource objects
custom_themes	object	optional	List of theme objects

Supported themes

The following themes and overlays are currently supported:

Theme	Overlays
two_story_with_garage	door, garage, outside_light, upstairs_light, downstairs_light, car, sprinkler

These states are supported by the overlays:

Overlay	States	Component examples
car	home, not_home	device_tracker
door	on, off	E.g. binary_sensor, switch
downstairs_lights	on, off	E.g. light, binary_sensor
garage	open, closed	cover
outside_light	on, off	E.g. light, binary_sensor
upstairs_lights	on, off	E.g. light, binary_sensor
sprinkler	on, off	E.g. binary_sensor, switch

You may add additional state mappings using a state_map to support other component types, see Entity object.

Entity object

An entity object maps an entity in Home Assistant to an overlay in the card, e.g. which device_tracker entity that shows/hides the car or which light that corresponds to "upstairs".

Name	Type	Default	Description
type	string	required	Overlay type, see overlay tabe
entity	string	required	Entity id from Home Assistant, e.g. light.downstairs
state_map	map	optional	Key-value map of state (in Home Assistant) to overlay state

A simple example of an entity object in yaml looks like this:

- type: car
  entity: binary_sensor_.car
  state_map:
    on: home
    off: not_home

This object supports custom tap and hold actions.

Resource object

A resource is a simple sensor that is displayed beneath the house, e.g. a temperature sensor or water usage. You can use any entity but you might have to manually specify an icon and/or unit_of_measurement.

Name	Type	Default	Description
entity	string	required	An entity from Home Assistant, e.g, sensor.water_usage
icon	string	optional	Override icon to use, e.g. mdi:car
unit_of_measurement	string	optional	Override unit of measurement, e.g. lux

A simple example of a resource object in yaml looks like this:

- entity: sensor.water_usage
  icon: mdi:water
  unit_of_measurement: liter

This object supports custom tap and hold actions.

Theme object

THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL AND MAY BREAK LATER - BEWARE!

You can define your own themes and use your own images if you like. Some things to consider:

• Keep images small (in size) to keep everything snappy
• Re-use overlays and names as much as possible to keep themes consistent
• If you make a cool looking theme, feel free to send a PR (make sure to clarify where images come from to cope with licenses) and remember to include a screenshot
• It is currently not possible to alter/extend existing themes, only define additional themes

The format of this object will be described in more detail once the format has been set, but have a look at the example to see how you configure your theme in current state.

Tap and hold actions

This card supports custom tap and hold actions for most things available in the card. Each theme defines the default behavior for how tap and hold works, but you may freely override this behavior. The exact same format as used by the entity button in lovelace is used here.

The following options are valid for tap_action and hold_action:

Name	Type	Default	Description
action	string	required	Action to perform, one of: more-info, toggle, call-service, navigate, none
navigation_path	string	optional	Where to navigate (e.g. /lovelace/1) when action is navigate
service	string	optional	Service to call (e.g. switch.turn_on) when action is call-service
service_data	string	optional	Service data to include when calling a service (e.g. entity_id: switch.bedroom).

To see an example, click here.

Example usage

Defining a home

Simple example using basic features:

- type: 'custom:home-card'
  theme: two_story_with_garage
  weather: weather.home
  entities:
    - type: garage
      entity: cover.garage_door
    - type: upstairs_light
      entity: light.demo_upstairs_light
    - type: downstairs_light
      entity: light_downstairs_light
    - type: car
      entity: device_tracker.car
  resources:
    - entity: utility meter.water
    - entity: utility meter.electricity
    - entity: binary_sensor.movement_backyard
      icon: 'mdi:alarm-light'
    - entity: sensor.outside_temperature
      icon: 'mdi:thermometer'

Using custom tap and hold actions

Simple example using various tap and hold actions:

- type: 'custom:home-card'
  theme: two_story_with_garage
  entities:
    - type: car
      entity: device_tracker.car
      tap_action:
        action: navigate
        navigation_path: /lovelace/2
      hold_action:
        action: more-info
  resources:
    - entity: sensor.outside_temperature
      tap_action:
        action: call-service
        service: switch.turn_on
        service_data:
          entity_id: switch.fan
      hold_action:
        action: none

Re-mapping states

Here, the car type is used as an example. It requires the specified entity to be a device_tracker as it maps states like home and not_home to different overlays. But you can add additional mappings to support for instance a binary_sensor as well using state_map, like below:

- type: 'custom:home-card'
  theme: two_story_with_garage
  entities:
    - type: car
      entity: binary_sensor.car
      state_map:
        on: home
        off: not_home

Creating custom themes

You can define you own themes quite simply using custom_themes. The basic structure looks like below (car is used to illustrate, you may add as many overlays as you like):

- type: 'custom:home-card'
  theme: my_home
  entities:
    - type: car
      entity: device_tracker.car
  custom_themes:
    my_home:
      house: house.png
      overlay_actions:
        '*':
          tap_action:
            action: toggle
        car:
          tap_action:
            action: more-info
      overlays:
        car:
          home:
            - image: car_home.png
              style:
                left: 10%
                top: 10%
          not_home:
            - image: car_away.png
              style:
                left: 40%
                top: 40%

Some notes here:

• You can defined multiple images for each state if you like (as a list is used)
• style translates to CSS style attributes, so you may use any CSS attributes here
• The theme is called my_home, so a directory with the same name must be created in the themes directory and all images placed there
• The house option is the main backdrop image and must be defined
• Overlay name (e.g. car) corresponds to type you specify under entities and may be anything you like (but try to be consistent with other themes to simply for other users in case you share your theme)
• If an entity in Home Assistant has a state that is not defined by its corresponding overlay, no overlay will be shown
• Different tap_action and hold_action configurations can be defined for specific overlay taps (like for 'car' in the example) or for all overlays using *.

Issues and imitations

• Very limited lovelace editor support
• Only one theme built-in

Getting errors?

Clear the browser cache, restart Home Assistant and make sure the configuration is correct.

If you believe you have found an error, please write an issue.

External resources

Images

This card uses some great free resources from Freepik, namely these:

• Weather Icons
• House
• Car

Other resources

The excellent clear theme is used in demo graphics, you can find it here:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/clear-theme/100464

Background image is linked from the same page as well.