Home Assistant

Sensor card

The sensor card gives you a quick overview of your sensors state with an optional graph to visualize change over time.

Screenshot of the sensor card Screenshot of the sensor card.

To add the sensor card to your user interface:

  1. In the top right of the screen, select the three dots menu and then select Edit dashboard.
    • By editing the dashboard, you are taking over control of this dashboard. This means that it is no longer automatically updated when new dashboard elements become available. To continue, in the dialog, select Take control.
  2. In the bottom right corner, select the Add card button and select from the card picker.

All options for this card can be configured via the user interface.

YAML configuration

The following YAML options are available when you use YAML mode or just prefer to use YAML in the code editor in the UI.

Configuration Variables

Looking for your configuration file?
type string Required

sensor

entity string Required

Entity ID of sensor domain.

icon string (Optional)

The card icon.

name string (Optional)

The card name.

graph string (Optional)

Type of graph (none or line).

unit string (Optional)

The unit of measurement.

detail integer (Optional, default: 1)

Detail of the graph 1 or 2 (1 = one point/hour, 2 = six points/hour).

hours_to_show integer (Optional, default: 24)

Hours to show in graph. Minimum is 1 hour. Big values can result in delayed rendering, especially if the selected entities have a lot of state changes.

limits map (Optional)

Limits of the graph Y-axis.

min float (Optional)

Minimum value of the graph Y-axis.

Default:

The minimum sample among the displayed values.

max float (Optional)

Maximum value of the graph Y-axis.

Default:

The maximum sample among the displayed values.

theme string (Optional)

Override the used theme for this card with any loaded theme. For more information about themes, see the frontend documentation.

Example

type: sensor
entity: sensor.illumination
name: Illumination