A way to specify day/ night sensor forcasts

[ando023]

I have two sensors showing the day and night weather forecasts which work fine. However to see each forecast I have to have two cards setup.

Would it be possible to add additional options in custom options to allow for time of day sensors?

Say something like this for example?

- type: 'custom:simple-weather-card'
  custom:
    - entity: 
        day: sensor.wupws_weather_1d
        night: sensor.wupws_weather_1n

[ando023]

Figured an alternate way to achieve this. Closing the issue now, hopefully this might help someone in the future.

Setup Binary Sensors

In home assistant there is TimeOfDay(TOD) binary sensors that can be created.

To achieve a Day/ Night cycle I added the following to my configuration.yaml:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: tod
    name: Night_Sensor
    after: sunset
    before: sunrise
  - platform: tod
    name: Day_Sensor
    after: sunrise
    before: sunset

After a restart of home assistant, you should now see two new binary sensors called;

• binary_sensor.night_sensor
• binary_sensor.day_sensor

Validate that each sensor displays the correct on or off function. If you have your day and night sensors showing as on or off you have configured your binary sensor wrong. Check the code and validate it again.

If you have done it correctly, you should have something like this;

Configuring a Card in your Dashboard

In the card that you want to apply this too, copy the following;

- type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: binary_sensor.night_sensor
        state: 'on'
    card:
      type: 'custom:simple-weather-card'
      name: 'Night Forcast:'
      entity: sensor.wupws_weather_1n
      backdrop:
        day: '#f6ca69'
        night: '#568bd9'
  - type: conditional
    conditions:
      - entity: binary_sensor.day_sensor
        state: 'on'
    card:
      type: 'custom:simple-weather-card'
      name: 'Night Forcast:'
      entity: sensor.wupws_weather_1d
      backdrop:
        day: '#568bd9'
        night: '#f6ca69'

Based from the on or off status of either binary_sensor.night_sensor or binary_sensor.day_sensor enables the day or night versions of the forecast cards.

As an example this is how I have my weather card setup for the day/ night cycles:

[kalkih]

Nice solution, thanks for sharing, consider checking out iantrich/config-template-card as well, could come in handy for situations like this.