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  • Variables can be a mapping, and template cards can be nested Two fixes landed in the card that these pages had backwards. Variables written as a mapping used to lose every key after the first, so the wiki told people to use a list and Troubleshooting listed the mapping form as a cause of stray placeholders. Both shapes now work everywhere, so Variables shows both, Troubleshooting drops that cause, and the reference says so. Template cards were only found at the top level of a view, so Defining Templates saying 'any view' was not quite true for one tidied away inside a stack. It is now, and the page says as much. The card editor's message for a variables block that is neither shape changed with it.

    @tempus2016 tempus2016 committed Aug 18, 2026
  • Document the card in full: 18 pages with worked examples and screenshots Covers installation, a five-minute quick start, the two ways to define templates, all four content types (card, badge, row, element), variables and their substitution rules, cross-dashboard template sharing, visibility conditions, styling, the visual editors, a configuration reference, ten recipes, a migration guide and troubleshooting. Screenshots are captured from a real Home Assistant instance.

    @tempus2016 tempus2016 committed Aug 18, 2026