mini-graph-card

Lovelace Mini Graph Card

A minimalistic and customizable graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI.

The card works with entities from within the sensor domain and displays the sensors current state as well as a line graph representation of the history.

Install

Simple install

• Download and copy mini-graph-card-bundle.js from the latest release into your config/www directory.

• Add a reference to mini-graph-card-bundle.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-graph-card-bundle.js?v=0.2.1
    type: module

CLI install

• Move into your config/www directory

• Grab mini-graph-card-bundle.js

$ wget https://github.com/kalkih/mini-graph-card/releases/download/v0.2.1/mini-graph-card-bundle.js

• Add a reference to mini-graph-card-bundle.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-graph-card-bundle.js?v=0.2.1
    type: module

(Optional) Add to custom updater

• Make sure you've the custom_updater component installed and working.

• Add a new reference under card_urls in your custom_updater configuration in configuration.yaml.

custom_updater:
  card_urls:
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kalkih/mini-graph-card/master/tracker.json

Updating

If you have a version older than v0.0.8 installed, please delete the current files and follow the installation instructions again.

• Find your mini-graph-card-bundle.js file in config/www or wherever you ended up storing it.

• Replace the local file with the latest one attached in the latest release.

• Add the new version number to the end of the cards reference url in your ui-lovelace.yaml like below.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-graph-card-bundle.js?v=0.2.1
    type: module

You may need to empty the browsers cache if you have problems loading the updated card.

Using the card

Options

Card options

Name	Type	Default	Since	Description
type	string	required	v0.0.1	custom:mini-graph-card.
entities	string/list	required	v0.0.1	Single entity id as a string or multiple entities in a list, see entities object for additional entity options.
icon	string	optional	v0.0.1	Set a custom icon from any of the available mdi icons.
name	string	optional	v0.0.1	Set a custom name which is displayed beside the icon.
unit	string	optional	v0.0.1	Set a custom unit of measurement.
more_info	boolean	true	v0.0.1	Set to false to disable the "more info" dialog popup when pressing on the card.
group	boolean	false	v0.2.0	Disable paddings and box-shadow, useful when nesting the card.
hours_to_show	integer	24	v0.0.2	Specify how many hours the line graph should render.
points_per_hour	integer	1	v0.2.0	Specify amount of data points the graph should render for every hour, (basically the detail/accuracy of the graph).
show	list	optional	v0.2.0	List of UI elements to display/hide, for available items see available show options.
animate	boolean	false	v0.2.0	Add a reveal animation to the graph.
height	number	150	v0.0.1	Set a custom height of the line graph.
line_width	number	5	v0.0.1	Set the thickness of the line.
line_color	string/list	var(--accent-color)	v0.0.1	Set a custom color for the graph line, provide a list of colors for multiple graph entries.
decimals	integer	optional	v0.0.9	Specify the exact number of decimals to show for states.
hour24	boolean	false	v0.2.1	Set to true to display times in 24-hour format.
font_size	number	100	v0.0.3	Adjust the font size of the state displayed, as percentage of the original size.
align_header	string	default	v0.2.0	Set the alignment of the header, left, right, center or default.
align_icon	string	right	v0.2.0	Set the alignment of the icon, left, right or state.
align_state	string	left	v0.2.0	Set the alignment of the current state, left, right or center.
line_color_above	list	optional	v0.2.0	Set thresholds for different line graph colors, see Line color object.
line_color_below	list	optional	v0.2.0	Set thresholds for different line graph colors, see Line color object.

Entities object

Providing options are optional, entities can be listed directly, see example below.

Name	Type	Default	Description
entity	string	required	Entity id of the sensor.
name	string	optional	Set a custom display name, defaults to entity's friendly_name.
show_state	string	optional	Display the current state of the sensor.

entities:
  - sensor.temperature
  - entity: sensor.pressure
    name: Pressure
    show_state: true
  - sensor.humidity

Available show options

All options are optional.

Name	Default	parameter	Description
name	true	true / false	Display name
icon	true	true / false	Display icon
state	true	true / false	Display current state
graph	true	true / false	Display the graph
fill	true	true / false	Display the graph fill
points	hover	true / false / hover	Display graph data points
legend	true	true / false	Display the graph legend (only shown when graph contains multiple entities)
extrema	false	true / false	Display max/min information
labels	false	true / false	Display Y-axis labels

Line color object

See adaptive line color for example usage.

Name	Type	Default	Description
value	number	required	The threshold at where the color should apply if state is above/below.
color	string	required	Color to apply to line graph, most formats supported (hex, rgb, rgba or just the name of the color etc.)

Example usage

Single entity card

- type: custom:mini-graph-card
  entities: sensor.illumination

Alternative style

# Example
- type: custom:mini-graph-card
  entities: sensor.illumination
  location_icon: left
  location_state: center
  show:
    fill: false

Multiple entities card

- type: custom:mini-graph-card
  name: SERVER
  icon: mdi:server
  entities:
    - entity: sensor.server_total
      name: TOTAL
    - sensor.server_sent
    - sensor.server_received

Show data from the past week

Use the hours_to_show option to specify how many hours of history the graph should represent. Use the points_per_hour option to specify the accuracy/detail of the graph.

- type: custom:mini-graph-card
  entities: sensor.living_room_temp
  name: LIVONG ROOM
  hours_to_show: 168
  points_per_hour: 0.25

Graph only card

Use the show option to show/hide UI elements.

- type: custom:mini-graph-card
  entities: sensor.humidity
  show:
    icon: false
    name: false
    state: false

Horizontally stacked cards

You can stack cards horizontally by using one or more horizontal-stack(s).

- type: horizontal-stack
  cards:
    - type: custom:mini-graph-card
      entities: sensor.humidity
      line_color: blue
      line_width: 8
      font_size: 75
    - type: custom:mini-graph-card
      entities: sensor.illumination
      line_color: '#e74c3c'
      line_width: 8
      font_size: 75
    - type: custom:mini-graph-card
      entities: sensor.temperature
      line_color: var(--accent-color)
      line_width: 8
      font_size: 75

Adaptive line color

Have the line color change with the current state. When listing more than one color entry, place them in order from low -> high for line_color_above and high -> low for line_color_below.

- type: custom:mini-graph-card
  entities: sensor.sensor_temperature
  line_color_above:
    - value: 10
      color: yellow
    - value: 20
      color: orange
    - value: 30
      color: red
  line_color_below:
    - value: -10
      color: white
    - value: -20
      color: lightblue
    - value: -30
      color: blue
    - value: -50
      color: "#000000"

Development

Clone this repository into your config/www folder using git.

$ git clone https://github.com/kalkih/mini-graph-card.git

Add a reference to the card in your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/mini-graph-card/mini-graph-card-bundle.js
    type: module

Generate the bundle

Requires nodejs & npm

Move into the mini-graph-card repo, checkout the dev branch & install dependencies.

$ cd mini-graph-card && git checkout dev && npm install

Edit the source, build by running

$ npm run build

The mini-graph-card-bundle.js will be rebuilt and ready.

For convenience, you can have the source build itself on file change by running

$ npm run watch

If you plan to submit a PR, please base it on the .dev` branch

Getting errors?

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

Make sure you have the latest versions of mini-graph-card.js & mini-graph-lib.js.

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

If you have issues displaying the card in older browsers, try changing type: module to type: js at the card reference in ui-lovelace.yaml.

License

This project is under the MIT license.

Changelog

v0.2.1

• Added: New hour24 option to choose time format between 12-hour/24-hour clock
• Added: Support for showing multiple sensor states, see new show_state option for the entity object (#33)
• Added: Ability to press/click on entities in the graph legend to bring up their "more info" dialog (#31)
• Fixed: Responsive design of the graph legend
• Fixed: NaN values in extrema (#34)
• Fixed: Extrema not rendering (#32)
• Fixed: Times on points going backwards (#30)