Auto add entities based on wild card search (or device-class) and add filer option to exclude some of them

Finally, a battery card!

Any change your card can get a wild card for entities and attributes? And an exclude value option (some sensors like FIbaro can also be wired, the battery value is then defaulted to 4)

Cheers.

My cuurent setup:

card:
  show_header_toggle: false
  title: Sensor Battery Status
  type: entities
filter:
  exclude:
    - state: '4'
  include:
    - entity_id: sensor.fib_*_battery_level
      options:
        style: |
          :host {
          --paper-item-icon-color: 
           {% if states(config.entity)|float <= 20 %} 
             red
           {% elif states(config.entity)|float <= 35 %}
             orange
           {% else %}
             var( ---state-icon-color )
           {% endif %}
           ;
           }
sort:
  method: state
  numeric: true
  reverse: false
type: 'custom:auto-entities'

[mdegat01]

FYI @Tom-ahawk this card works with auto-entities. I’m using it right now like this:

- card:
    show_header_toggle: false
    title: Battery levels
    type: 'custom:battery-state-card'
    color_gradient:
      - '#ff0000'
      - '#ffff00'
      - '#00ff00'
  filter:
    exclude:
      - state: Ok
    include:
      - entity_id: sensor.*_battery_level
      - entity_id: sensor.*_battery_health
  show_empty: false
  sort:
    method: state
    numeric: true
  type: 'custom:auto-entities'

So @maxwroc its up to you if you want to implement this yourself in your card or simply point people to auto-entities as a solution to this problem.

[maxwroc]

Interesing idea with the wildcard entity search! I’m slightly concerned it can be a bit slow if you have a lot of entities in your HA.

HA updates the cards “every time” (probably it is throttled) when any antity state changes (even if it’s not used in the card). So in this case I would need to iterate over the entire collection of entities and get their state. But since you’re saying that you have almost similar setup for the other card I will give it a try.

If it is ok perfwise I will add it in similar way as you have it in your example. If not I could do some kind of discovery mode in which list of found entities will be printed on the card - you would be able to copy it over to the configuration.

I don’t see any problems with state filtering so I will add it for sure