Binary sensor alert card state

[csuich2]

This introduces a variable that specifies which state icon_alert and icon_info_alert should alert on. This is useful when you want to alert on a state other than "on". For example, I use this to alert when my automation is "off".

Need to setup a test environment, but this is a handy change that I've had in a local custom card. I figured it made more sense to put into the base cards than a custom card.

If you're open to this change then I can setup the dev environment for a full test.

[basbruss]

Hi @csuich2

Thank you for improving this card.

Binary Sensors can only have three states: on; off; unavailable. Therefore to make it more user-friendly and less error-prone you can consider changing the added variable to a boolean variable that can revert checking for the on state to the off state by setting true as the value for the variable.

Example:

value: > 
  [[[ 
    var check_state = 'on'
    if(variables.ulm_icon_alert_revert_state){
     check_state = 'off';
    }
    if (entity.state == 'unavailable' || entity.state == check_state){ return true; } 
  ]]]

[csuich2]

@basbruss Great point! I've updated with a boolean flag and verified the behavior with a devcontainer.

[basbruss]

@csuich2 Works perfect!

It will be available with the next release!