README.md

Lovelace animated weather card

Originally created for the old UI converted by @arsaboo and @ciotlosm to Lovelace and now converted to Lit to make it even better.

This card uses the awesome animated SVG weather icons by amCharts.

Thanks for all picking this card up.

Installation:

You have 2 options, hosted or self hosted (manual). The first option needs internet and will update itself.

If you are using Firefox:

Firefox < 66 does not support all the needed functions yet for the editor. You change this by enabling javascript.options.dynamicImport in about:config. Or use the version without the editor: Version without editor

Hosted:

Add the following to resources in your lovelace config:

- url: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/bramkragten/custom-ui@master/weather-card/weather-card.min.js
  type: module

Manual:

1. Download the weather-card.js to /config/www/custom-lovelace/weather-card/. (or an other folder in /config/www/)
2. Save, the amCharts icons (The contents of the folder "animated") under /config/www/custom-lovelace/weather-card/icons/ (or an other folder in /config/www/)
3. If you use Lovelace in storage mode, and want to use the editor, download the weather-card-editor.js to /config/www/custom-lovelace/weather-card/. (or the folder you used above)

Add the following to resources in your lovelace config:

resources:
  - url: /local/custom-lovelace/weather-card/weather-card.js
    type: module

Configuration:

And add a card with type custom:weather-card:

- type: custom:weather-card
  entity: weather.yourweatherentity
  name: Optional name

If you want to use your local icons add the location to the icons:

- type: custom:weather-card
  entity: weather.yourweatherentity
  icons: "/local/custom-lovelace/weather-card/icons/"

Make sure the sun component is enabled:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sun:

Dark Sky:

When using Dark Sky you should put the mode to daily if you want a daily forecast with highs and lows.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
weather:
  - platform: darksky
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
    mode: daily