Tile Card features visibility based on state

[theandouz]

Would be great to be able to set conditions of visibility based on entity state. Primary use case is for lights and hiding there dimmer while off. Helps keep dashboards small for mobile while offering greater functionality while devices are in use.

Currently using a tile card, mushroom light card, conditional card and stack in card to get the same functionality but would be great to have as a built in feature.

[marcinbauer-ohf]

So basically Mushrooms "Collapse controls when off" ? This may have a side-effect where if you'd be looking at a dashboard and somebody or an automation would turn on lights the dashboard would shift because the cards would need to change size.

[theandouz]

Yes exactly like that, It's a side effect for some yes but I see it as a feature, my dashboards are primarily used on my phone and so getting as small of a dashboard when devices are off is preferable. It helps get an overview faster when I'm checking if I left anything on, especially for rooms that have a lot of devices. Having it as an optional toggle or yaml only override would also be good so it wont be on by default.

[marcinbauer-ohf]

I get your point. This could be solved in different ways, though. For instance, in Apple home devices that are considered "on" have a card that is white, as opposed to an "off" state one which is black.

[marcinbauer-ohf]

@piitaya ? :)

[piitaya]

Cards new have a fixed size in the grid. Having conditional sizes may broken the grid layout (1 row vs 2 rows when on for example).
For example, how do you expect the grid to be if you turn off the first light in this example?

It will look like that :

The layout shift can be worst if you decide to turn on/off multiple lights

[theandouz]

Sorting lights by having more frequently used lights would prevent some disarrangement in the grid however my current custom cards still maintain the grid while collapsed. I find typically there's no more than 4-6 lights in a room and so the overall shift isn't that noticeable.

Thank you guys for taking the time to review my suggestion, and I appreciate the work you’ve done on the mushroom and now tile cards.