Templating - Mushroom Entity Card - Jinja

[spring mango]

Stuggling a bit with something that seems simple.

I want my entity card to change "icon color" based on the state of the entity. Using "Developer tools" I have confirmed that the entity is lock.back_door_lock and has two states: locked and unlocked.

what am I doing wrong?

type: custom:mushroom-entity-card
entity: lock.back_door_lock
primary_info: state
secondary_info: last-changed
tap_action:
  action: toggle
hold_action:
  action: more-info
icon_color: |
  {% if is_state('lock.back_door_lock', 'locked') %}
    green 
  {% else %}
    red
  {% endif %}

the icon is showing no color as if it is disabled. I believe this is possible based on posts here:
https://github.com/piitaya/lovelace-mushroom/issues/335

[final tusk]

Try {{ iif(is_state(entity,’locked’), ‘green’, ‘red’) }}

[spring mango]

icon_color: "{{ if(is_state('lock.front_door_lock', 'locked'), 'green', 'red') }}"

that exact line doesn't work, I tried with and without the double quotes at the beginning and end, and also without the single quotes on green and red

oh, iif wasn't a typo. one sec

icon_color: "{{ iif(is_state('lock.front_door_lock', 'locked'), 'green', 'red') }}" still no luck

but for reference it definitely is that element variable

[final tusk]

Huh, it may not take a template. I use template cards for this very reason.

[spring mango]

so just build the whole thing from a template card? I was avoiding that because I'm too dumb to figure it out

[final tusk]

They aren’t hard.

[grave ore]

You might be able to bring in: https://github.com/gadgetchnnel/lovelace-card-templater to templatify the icon

[spring mango]

I'll give a template a shot. let's see

[spring mango]

I'm like 90%; only thing I can't get is the last updated time to show like it was on the lock card

I want the last updated time to show in relative terms

[grave ore]

time_since(blah blah.last_changed, 1)

[spring mango]

like that? took it off

[grave ore]

you might have to cast the last_changed to datetime first

you'll also need to add the "ago" in

[spring mango]

{{ time_since(states.lock.garage_door_lock.last_changed) }} fixed it

oh, you're right, I do 🙂

perfect. thank you two so much!

that took a lot of effort. lol. but we got it. whew

[grave ore]

but now it's done and you can leave it alone forever!

and definitely not fiddle with it incessently for months

[spring mango]

lmao 🙂 exaaactly

[final tusk]

So, one trick with the template card is that you can use entity for any calls if you have the entity defined at the top of the card.

So, for time since, you can just do {{ time_since(states[entity].last_changed) }} ago to get what you want as well.

[grave ore]

that's neat, i didn't know that

[final tusk]

It’s a real time saver.

Also applies to the mushroom template badges too.