A customizable animated bar card for Home Assistant Lovelace dashboards.
Bar-card is a custom Lovelace card for Home Assistant that displays entity states as animated, configurable bar graphs. It transforms numeric sensor data and device metrics into visual progress bars with customizable colors, animations, and layouts. The card solves the problem of creating engaging, at-a-glance visualizations for home automation dashboards without requiring complex custom development.
Home Assistant users and dashboard designers who want to enhance their Lovelace interfaces with animated, data-rich visualizations. Particularly useful for those monitoring sensor values, energy consumption, or system metrics.
Developers choose bar-card for its extensive customization options—including severity-based coloring, flexible layouts, and CSS styling—that go beyond Home Assistant's built-in cards. Its seamless integration with Lovelace and support for animations make it a versatile tool for creating professional-looking dashboards.
Customizable Animated Bar card for Home Assistant Lovelace
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Allows fine control over animation state and speed for smooth value transitions, with configurable options to turn animations on/off and set speed in seconds.
Supports defining color ranges based on value thresholds for instant visual feedback, with options to hide bars or change icons per severity level, enhancing status recognition.
Offers horizontal and vertical bar directions, entity row mode for compact displays, and multi-entity grids with column settings, providing versatile dashboard design.
Enables extensive visual customization through CSS element targeting and theme variables, though it requires the card-mod add-on for full styling capabilities.
Advanced CSS styling necessitates card-mod, an external community add-on, adding setup complexity and potential compatibility issues with other customizations.
The project shows no maintenance since 2020, as indicated by the badge, risking bugs and incompatibility with newer Home Assistant versions or features.
With numerous YAML options and settings for animations, positions, and severity, it can be overwhelming for users seeking simple, plug-and-play solutions.