Light Entity Card

Control any light/switch entity through lovelace

Support

For help, visit the light entity support thread here

Features

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• Works on any light and switch based entity
• Toggle on/off
• HS Color wheel
• Color temperature and white value support
• Support for configured language
• Compact card support for grouped entities
• use persist_features: true to always show entity features
• use effects_list to add custom effects list or use input_select entity
• always show or hide header and each input

Installation

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Add through HACS

Issues with the installation should be asked in the Home Asssitant forums

Configurations:

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type: custom:light-entity-card
entity: light.downstairs

type: custom:light-entity-card
entity: light.downstairs
effects_list:
  - effect1
  - effect2

type: custom:light-entity-card
entity: light.downstairs
effects_list: input_select.custom_effect_list

type: custom:light-entity-card
entity: light.downstairs
group: true

Options:

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Name	Type	Requirement	Default value Description
type	string	Required	custom:light-entity-card
entity	string	Required	The entity name of the light entity to control
shorten_cards	boolean	Optional	false show a compact version of the card
consolidate_entities	boolean	Optional	false if entity is a group you can consolidate all entities into one
persist_features	boolean	Optional	false always show entity features
effects_list	list/string/boolean	Optional	custom list of effects, an input_select entity, or set false to always hide
header	string	Optional	custom header name
hide_header	boolean	Optional	false hides the entity header of the card including toggle
brightness	boolean	Optional	true show brightness slider if available
color_temp	boolean	Optional	true show color temp slider if available
white_value	boolean	Optional	true show white value slider if available
color_picker	boolean	Optional	true show color picker wheel if available
full_width_sliders	boolean	Optional	false makes slider the full width of card
brightness_icon	string	Optional	weather-sunny change the brightness slider icon
white_icon	string	Optional	file-word-box change the white slider icon
temperature_icon	string	Optional	thermometer change the temperature slider icon
show_slider_percent	boolean	Optional	false show percent next to sliders
smooth_color_wheel	boolean	Optional	false smooth out color wheel for more colors
child_card	boolean	Optional	false remove padding/margin to make this card within another card

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