Card settings¶
Open any card's popup and choose ⋯ → Card settings. The form shows a live preview of the card on the left: every change you make is visible there before you save. Changes apply right away after Save and are listed under Settings → Card settings, where you can reset them.
A small std marker on a choice means that is what the card gets when you choose nothing: the built-in behaviour, or what you set under Settings → Card defaults. Picking the marked choice stores nothing, so the card keeps following the defaults.
Appearance¶
| setting | what it does |
|---|---|
| Name and icon | your own name and Material Design icon (mdi:…); empty = from Home Assistant |
| Kind (door, window and motion cards) | door, window, motion or general; use it when a sensor has no or the wrong device class |
| Show | name, the line under it, the state in the corner, and the battery of the device (bottom right) |
| Bottom | the extra row at the bottom; the choices depend on the card (brightness steps, colours, today, graph, timer, cost …) |
| card-specific options | colour tint and colours for lights, album art and linked player for media, mode buttons for thermostats, live stream for cameras, power sensor and appliance features for plugs |
Behaviour¶
Tap and hold: toggle, open details (the panel's popup), Home Assistant dialog or nothing. The preview's caption shows what the card currently does.
Action buttons¶
Up to three of your own buttons on light, switch, sensor, fan and lock cards. Each has a label, an icon, a service (light.turn_on; the field suggests the services of your Home Assistant) and optional JSON data. When the data has no entity_id, the card's own entity is used. The form checks that the JSON is valid.
Advanced¶
Jinja templates, rendered live by Home Assistant:
| template | what it replaces |
|---|---|
| State | the text in the corner |
| Subtitle | the line under the name |
| Bottom | the bottom line (instead of the choice above) |
| Visible (condition) | whether the card is shown at all |
The visibility condition comes in two forms:
- Simple: an entity, a comparison (is, is not, greater than, less than) and a value —
binary_sensor.front_doorison,sensor.batteryless than30. - Template: a Jinja template; the card is hidden when it renders
false,0,no,off,noneor nothing.
Show when false inverts either. A hidden card comes back in edit mode, dimmed with a banner, so you can always reach its settings. Template cards have the same field in their definition. (Templates need an administrator account; for other users the card is simply shown.)
Panel cards and template cards¶
In edit mode a tap opens the settings of every card, also the panel's own (weather, agenda, scenes …): those only carry the visibility condition. A placed template card shows its fields here, so you can change the entity or threshold it was placed with, and its own name and icon.
Card defaults¶
Settings → Card defaults sets the same tap, hold, bottom and show options for a whole card type at once. A setting on a single card wins over the default.
Hiding a card¶
⋯ → Hide on this page takes a card off the page it is on; Page settings (hold the page title) lists hidden cards so you can bring them back.
Buttons¶
A small design rule runs through the panel: round buttons pick a value (a mode, a brightness step, a colour), square buttons do something (play, stop, up, down).