Tile Card - Feature for "switch" entities

[ChristophCaina]

Hi,
at the moment I am redesigning my Dashboards and replace many elements with the new Tile Cards.
While I can use the tile card as a "button" (action = toggle) - I would like to see an option to use the tile card also for switch Entities.
Right - It could be done just like a button - and setting the action to toggle, but a nice feature addon would be to have the ability to show the toggle-slider like it is the case for entitie cards:

[Mariusthvdb]

wow this is ancient, and still valid...

let me bump this, we really would be able to use a Tile card with a horizontal toggle in the features (and not have to open the more-info to reveal the huge vertical toggle)

idea like the https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/features/#humidifier-toggle

and add that feature to toggled entities, like switch, input_boolean and light please?

[ChristophCaina]

just noticed, that this would also be a nice feature for the tile card, if you are using a "counter-helper".
Right now, you have to increase / decrease / reset the counter either in the "more info" dialog, via automation - or by calling the action for the counter, which means - if you want to do it within the UI:

Add the TileCard + configure a "primary action" - or place button cards next by. ...
So, having a feature like the below, would be great

features:
    - type: counter-action-modes
    action_modes:
      - increase
      - decrease
      - reset

[Mariusthvdb]

but that would be for another type of entity, so please write that up in a separate topic, not to bloat this one about Switch entities?
there is also a generic 'features for Tile card' discussion. But as you will see, it wont develop because too wide spread.

Separate topic for separate ideas works best

[jpbede]

#24325

[Mariusthvdb]

wonderful! thank you so very much

will this also work for/be added to booleans, and other on/off entities, like eg a light?

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as a sidebar:
would be cool if we would 'simply' have the toggle option, and not have to set it per device type

so in stead of:

type: tile
entity: switch.example_switch
features:
  - type: switch-toggle

do

type: tile
entity: switch.example_switch
features:
  - type: toggle

or

type: tile
entity: light.example_light
features:
  - type: toggle

and

type: tile
entity: input_boolean.example_boolean
features:
  - type: toggle

(also thinking this with modding them in mind, via card-mod. We now have to target those all specifically per device-type, while a generic feature name would suffice and be much easier/cleaner)

hui-fan-speed-card-feature
hui-humidifier-toggle-card-feature
hui-target-humidity-card-feature
etc etc

would be awesome if in the future we could see just

hui-target-card-feature
hui-toggle-card-feature

etc etc....

If you're open to that thought, ld be glad to write up a separate FR/Discussion for that. It's related to this here, but a bit more generic too.. ;-)

[jpbede]

Yea, agreed! A comment was made on the PR as well. We rename the feature and make it usable for at least input_boolean as well.