Solar Chart Card

Solar Chart Card

custom:adaptive-cover-pro-solar-chart-card

The Solar Chart card renders the sun-elevation-vs-time chart on its own — the same "Sun Today" curve the Panel Card and the Sky Compass Card already draw, lifted out for dashboards that want the elevation timeline without the compass wedge, decision strip, or cover bars around it. Like the Sky Compass Card and unlike the Decision Strip Card, it takes one or more config entries at once: pick several Adaptive Cover Pro instances and each contributes its own sun acceptance angle timing onto the shared curve.

It is the fifth card in the Adaptive Cover Pro Card bundle; installing the bundle once registers all five.

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When to use it

• You want the sun-elevation timeline on a dashboard without the compass, decision strip, or override controls the full Panel Card carries.
• You're already running the Sky Compass Card for the polar azimuth view and want the elevation timeline broken out onto its own card instead of toggling show_elevation_chart on that one.
• You want to overlay several ACP instances' sun acceptance angle windows on one shared elevation timeline — the same overlay model the Sky Compass Card uses, minus the polar plot.

If you only have one instance and want everything at a glance, the full Panel Card is usually the better fit.

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What it shows

• The sun's elevation over the next 24 hours: a horizon line, 0°/30°/60°/90° gridlines, a "now" cursor, and a sun dot colored the same way as the rest of the card bundle — gold with a soft glow when the sun is actually hitting a window, plain gold when it's inside a window's sun acceptance angle but not yet counted as a valid hit, light yellow when it's above the horizon but outside every window's FOV, and dim grey below the horizon.
• The curve itself depends only on your Home Assistant instance's latitude and longitude, so it's identical no matter how many entries you overlay. What varies per entry is the sun acceptance angle timing drawn on top of it.
• One entry selected: a header line above the chart states the times the sun sits inside that window's FOV today (or says it doesn't), plus the automation schedule window when the integration's control_status sensor reports one. The FOV band is drawn directly on the plot, clipped to the window's elevation limits when the integration reports them (dashed gold lines).
• Two or more entries: the FOV bands move off the plot into a stacked ribbon — one row per entry, anchored just above the time axis — each colored to match that entry's palette or override color, with the exact in-FOV time range shown on hover. The header line drops the per-entry FOV summary (the ribbon already carries it) but keeps the schedule line.
• compact: true hides the header line entirely and shrinks the chart's aspect ratio, for dense dashboards.

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Configuration

Drop the card onto a dashboard and the visual editor walks you through it. Or edit YAML directly:

type: custom:adaptive-cover-pro-solar-chart-card
entry_ids:
  - KITCHEN_ENTRY_ID
  - LIVING_ROOM_ENTRY_ID
# optional:
title: Sun today
compact: false
cover_colors:                  # per-entry overlay colors, aligned to entry_ids order
  - '#4f9eff'                  #   Kitchen   (omit or null to keep the palette default)
  - null                       #   Living room → keep default

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
entry_ids	string[]	(required)	One or more ACP config entry IDs. Each contributes its own sun acceptance angle timing to the chart. Must be a non-empty array of non-empty strings.
title	string	unset	Optional header text above the chart.
compact	bool	false	Smaller chart; hides the header row (title, FOV summary, schedule line).
cover_colors	(string | null)[]	palette	Per-entry overlay colors for the FOV ribbon, aligned to entry_ids order. null (or an omitted trailing entry) keeps that entry's automatic palette color.
tooltips	object	enabled	Card-owned floating tooltip behaviour, shared with the other cards. See Tooltips.

Visual editor

The editor lists your Adaptive Cover Pro config entries as a checklist — tick as many as you want to overlay. Below it, an optional title field; once at least one entry is selected, a color swatch appears per entry (each defaulting to its automatic palette color) with a reset button to clear a manual override back to that default; and a compact-mode toggle at the bottom.

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Single- vs multi-entry mode

The card follows the same rule as the Sky Compass Card: with exactly one entry_ids value, the chart reads like the Panel Card's own elevation strip — FOV timing is summarized in the header and drawn as a single band on the plot. With two or more, the FOV overlays move into the stacked ribbon so multiple entries' timing don't collide on one band, and the header stops repeating what the ribbon already shows.

An entry whose sun-position sensor hasn't populated yet (a deleted entry, or the integration still warming up after a restart) is dropped from the chart and listed in a small "entries not found" line beneath it. One quirk worth knowing: the chart checks only the first successfully-discovered entry for a populated sun-position sensor before it draws anything — if that one entry hasn't reported yet, the whole chart shows a loading placeholder even though your other entries are ready. It clears itself as soon as that entry's sensor updates.

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Finding your entry_ids

Open Settings → Devices & Services, click each Adaptive Cover Pro instance you want to include, and copy the value from config_entry=… in the browser URL. The visual editor lists every instance with a checkbox, so you don't normally need to look these up manually.

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Compatibility

• Home Assistant: 2024.5.0+
• Adaptive Cover Pro: v2.14.0+ — no new integration minimum for this card
• Card bundle: ships in the same JS file as the Panel Card, Tile Card, Sky Compass Card, and Decision Strip Card; installing the bundle installs all five. See Dashboard Cards → Installation.

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Reporting issues

Card issues → https://github.com/jrhubott/adaptive-cover-pro-card/issues

A browser devtools console screenshot almost always gets the fastest fix.