v1.2.8

AlertTicker Card v1.2.8

🗂️ Grouped Alerts + Alexa Multiroom TTS

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✨ Highlights

🗂️ Grouped Alerts — collapse many sensors into one card

When a filter-mode alert (device class, entity filter, label/area) has too many active entities, it can now automatically collapse into a single summary slide instead of cycling through each one individually.

alerts:
  - device_class: battery
    operator: "<"
    state: "30"
    theme: battery
    group: true
    group_min: 3                             # collapse when ≥3 entities are active
    group_message: "{count} batteries low"   # summary text
    group_expanded_message: "{name}: {state}%"  # per-entity text when expanded

How it works:

• When active entities reach group_min, a summary card appears showing the message, all entity names, and the total count with a ▼ indicator
• Tap the card to expand into individual alert slides — each shows the full per-entity alert as if it were a standalone alert
• A ◀ chip at the bottom of each expanded slide collapses back to the group summary
• Swipe left on the group slide → snoozes all members at once
• Swipe left on an individual expanded slide → snoozes that entity only
• When fewer than group_min entities are active, individual slides are shown as usual

Message placeholders:

Field	Available placeholders
group_message	{count} · {names} · {{ states('sensor.x') }} · any HA Jinja2
group_expanded_message	{state} · {name} · {entity} · {device} · {{ states('sensor.x') }} · any HA Jinja2

Editor: all options appear in the new 🗂️ Raggruppa alert section, visible only for filter-mode alerts (device class / entity filter / label / area).

Perfect for battery monitors, door/window sensors, motion detectors — any scenario where a fleet of similar sensors can trigger at once.

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🆕 Also Added

Feature	Description
tts_notify_type	Set the notify type per-alert for TTS services. Use announce for Alexa speaker groups / multiroom setups (default: tts). Configurable in the editor.

tts: true
tts_notify_service: alexa_media_zona_giorno
tts_notify_type: announce   # default: tts

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🐛 Fixed

• Config error when enabling group alerts — active was declared const in _computeActiveAlerts but reassigned in the grouping pass, throwing TypeError: Assignment to constant variable the moment the feature was turned on. Changed to let.
• Clock/date blank on first render — clock showed nothing for up to 1 second after mount; fixed by populating _clockTime/_clockDate synchronously before the interval starts.

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📦 Installation / Update

HACS

Search AlertTicker Card → Update

Manual

Replace alert-ticker-card.js and alert-ticker-card-editor.js in /config/www/ with the files from this release, then hard-reload the browser (Ctrl+Shift+R).

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