Simple Weather Card

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

Install

Simple 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=0.3.0
       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/v0.3.0/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=0.3.0
       type: module

(Optional) Add to custom updater

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

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

   custom_updater:
     card_urls:
       - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kalkih/simple-weather-card/master/tracker.json

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=0.3.0
       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.
secondary_info	string	precipitation	v0.2.0	Secondary info displayed, precipitation, humidity, wind_speed.
backdrop	boolean/object	false	v0.1.0	Colored background, takes true/false or a backdrop object.

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.

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"

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.