Simple Weather Card

A minimalistic weather card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI, inspired by Google Material Design.

Install

This card is available in HACS (Home Assistant Community Store)

Manual install

1. Download and copy simple-weather-card-bundle.js from the latest release into your config/www directory.

2. Add a reference to simple-weather-card-bundle.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml or through the raw config editor interface.

   resources:
     - url: /local/simple-weather-card-bundle.js?v=0.8.1
       type: module

CLI install

1. Move into your config/www directory

2. Download simple-weather-card-bundle.js

   $ wget https://github.com/kalkih/simple-weather-card/releases/download/v0.8.1/simple-weather-card-bundle.js

3. Add a reference to simple-weather-card-bundle.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml or through the raw config editor gui.

   resources:
     - url: /local/simple-weather-card-bundle.js?v=0.8.1
       type: module

Updating

1. Find your simple-weather-card-bundle.js file in config/www or wherever you ended up storing it.

2. Replace the local file with the one found in the latest release.

3. Add the new version number to the end of the card reference url in your ui-lovelace.yaml. This will prevent the browser from loading the old version from cache.

   resources:
     - url: /local/simple-weather-card-bundle.js?v=0.8.1
       type: module

Using the card

Options

Card options

Name	Type	Default	Since	Description
type	string	required	v0.1.0	custom:simple-weather-card
entity	string	required	v0.1.0	The entity_id from an entity within the weather domain.
name	string	optional	v0.1.0	Set a custom name.
primary_info	array/string	extrema	v0.7.0	Primary card information, one or more weather attributes
secondary_info	array/string	precipitation	v0.2.0	Secondary card information, one or more weather attributes
backdrop	boolean/object	false	v0.1.0	Colored background, accepts true/false or a Backdrop object.
custom	array	optional	v0.4.0	Override weather information with custom sensors, see Custom option.
tap_action	action object	optional	v0.5.0	Action on click/tap.

Weather attributes

Name	Description
extrema	Forecast high and low temperature
precipitation	Forecast precipitation
precipitation_probability	Probability of precipitation
humidity	Current humidity
wind_speed	Current wind speed
wind_bearing	Current wind direction
pressure	Current air pressure

Backdrop object options

See Backdrop example for example usage.

Name	Type	Default	Description
fade	boolean	false	Faded background.
day	string	'#45aaf2'	Background color (Day).
night	string	'#a55eea'	Background color (Night).
text	string	'var(--text-dark-color)'	Text color.

Custom option array

See Custom example for example usage. Possible entries are: temp, high, low, state, precipitation, humidity, icon-state, wind_speed, wind_bearing, pressure & precipitation_probability.

custom:
  - temp: sensor.home_temp
  - high: sensor.home_high_temp
  - low: sensor.home_low_temp

Action object options

Name	Type	Default	Options	Description
action	string	more-info	more-info, navigate, call-service, none	Action to perform
service	string	none	Any service	Service to call (e.g. media_player.toggle) when action is defined as call-service
service_data	object	none	Any service data	Service data to include with the service call (e.g. entity_id: media_player.office)
navigation_path	string	none	Any path	Path to navigate to (e.g. /lovelace/0/) when action is defined as navigate
entity	string	none	Any entity id	Override default entity of more-info, when action is defined as more-info

Example usage

Standard card

- type: custom:simple-weather-card
  entity: weather.smhi
  name: in current location

Backdrop example

- type: custom:simple-weather-card
  entity: weather.smhi
  name: " "
  backdrop: true

Custom backdrop example

- type: custom:simple-weather-card
  entity: weather.smhi
  name: at home
  backdrop:
    day: "var(--primary-color)"
    night: "#40445a"

Customize weather information example

- type: custom:simple-weather-card
  entity: weather.smhi
  primary_info:
    - wind_bearing
    - humidity
  secondary_info:
    - precipitation
    - precipitation_probability

Custom sensors example

- type: custom:simple-weather-card
  entity: weather.smhi
  custom:
    - temp: sensor.home_temp
    - high: sensor.home_high_temp
    - low: sensor.home_low_temp

Problems?

Make sure you have javascript_version: latest set in your configuration.yaml under frontend:.

Make sure you got the latest version of simple-weather-card-bundle.js.

If you have issues after updating the card, try clearing the browser cache manually.

If you are getting "Custom element doesn't exist: simple-weather-card", or are running an older browser try replacing type: module with type: js in the resource reference in ui-lovelace.yaml or in the raw config editor.

License

This project is under the MIT license.