Gauge card scaling doesn't work for battery levels

[sldewit]

Home Assistant release with the issue: 0.98.5

Last working Home Assistant release (if known):

UI (States or Lovelace UI?): Lovelace UI

Browser and Operating System: Chrome browser on Windows 10

Description of problem: The gauge card severity option assumes that the lowest is always the green. However for battery levels this is not the case. In this case the severity color cannot be used.

[VDRainer]

You just need to define the values for the severity.

type: gauge
name: With Severity
unit: '%'
entity: sensor.cpu_usage
severity:
  green: 90
  yellow: 45
  red: 0

[sldewit]

See below image what happens then:

When I define it "the other way arround":

So it seems that the logic is: If value <= green then green else if value <= yellow then yellow else if value <= red then red.

and what I need is: If value <= red then red else if value <= yellow then yellow else if value <= green then green.

For a value like CPU usage the implementation is correct since lowest value is green, high value is red. But for values like battery level it should be reversed. Op 12 september 2019 16:03:35 +02:00, schreef VDRainer notifications@github.com:

Edit: I just set it up as you said and it does seem to work. But it is weird configuration like this.

You just need to define the values for the severity. type: gauge name: With Severity unit: '%' entity: sensor.cpu_usage severity: green: 90 yellow: 45 red: 0

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[VDRainer]

Read the docs

Value from which to start ...

So if you define

severity:
  green: 90
  yellow: 45
  red: 0

Values from 0 to 45 show red, from 45 to 90 show yellow and from 90 to 100 show green.

[sldewit]

Ok. I agree. Now that I read it again it is clear. Thanks.

[ChasNelson1990]

Sorry, @VDRainer but this doesn't seem to work for me?

My card config is:

entity: sensor.coffecherry_tank
max: 100
name: Water Tank Level
type: gauge
unit: '%'
severity:
  green: 90
  yellow: 45
  red: 0
min: 0

But my gauge (which I have forced to be 20 % for testing) is uncoloured. (And if I swap green and red I get 'correct' colouring.)

Edit: Sorry, forgot to say this is Home Assistant 0.111.3 and I'm using Lovelace UI and a Firefox 77.0.1 instance on Arch Linux. Might be worth saying that I am a custom theme: https://github.com/home-assistant-community-themes/nord

[VDRainer]

Pretty sure it works with the default theme? Most dark themes don't use a redish color for label-badge-red. Create an extra theme for the gauges. Oh, and please don't post in closed issues.

[ChasNelson1990]

You are correct, my apologies.

Sorry if posting on closed issues when the topic seems to be the same (admittedly it wasn't in the end!) isn't done in home-assistant repos, I couldn't find anything that said so - my bad.