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Since Home Assistant saw version 110.+, icon handling in state-badge has changed, causing the original custom-ui by @andrey-git to no longer be fully functional.

The loss of icon_color would be a major pain, and reason enough to hold off updating Home Assistant until I would be able to globally colorize my icons again.

Second to that, it was announced that the extra_html_url config option was soon to be deprecated and removed. So things had to change.

I rang the alarmbell on this, and the core Dev team (thanks Bram and Thomas) helped me transform the 'old' state-card-custom-ui.html import into a modern JS version.

This adapted version makes it compatible again with HA 110+.

No more States, Lovelace it is

Note that this adapted version doesn't hold all options of the original custom-ui. Since that was designed for Home Assistant States, and we now live Lovelace, many of these options are no longer supported or used. These are now 'carved out' of custom-ui. Per-entity-theming for one was a major feature now defunct. As are all other features specifically used in the state-cards. Like show_last_changed. We all know how to do that easily in Lovelace now.

More-info

Coming from the original custom-ui, you may have used the Customizer companion too. We used that to hide stuff from the more-info windows. This was useful, because we could also hide the templates we set in custom-ui. However, current Lovelace broke customizer, resulting in:

templates-in-more-info

@CAB426 has changed custom-ui.js, so it again allows us to hide attributes in more-info, and even better, we can now do so using custom-ui.js only.

More-info with hide_attributes:

hidden-templates-more-info

HA 2021.6 changed frontend representation of more-info attributes once again, and custom-ui updated to follow that. Thank you @spacegaier and Bram for helping out!

Websocket update / HA 2022.4

As of Home Assistant 2022.4, the frontend will change and has another way of handling Websockets. This heavily impacts custom-ui. As of then state changes are no longer followed, but entities are subscribed to. Checkout Paulus's explanation in the 2022.4 release party on the matter.

For custom-ui this means the templates we use are no longer immediately executed, but need a view reload. Which obviously makes many templates useless, especially the ones that set an icon on state change (on/off...) or where a signal color was used as the indication of an alert color.

I did file an issue but fear that won't help a lot, as using custom-ui is on our own, and not a core HA project. @bratanon joined and he made the original minimized code more readable, and we have released a new and 2022.4 ready version.

Templating state no longer supported

As of HA 2022.4, templating state: is no longer supported in custom-ui. We now show users a warning in the console if using the none supported state: templating. This means the actual entity state itself can no longer be customized.

# !!! THIS DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE AND WILL SHOW A WARNING !!!
templates:
   state: if (state === 'home') return 'Online'; return 'Offline';

Using state IN the condition WILL WORK as that is core custom-ui functionality.

# This is STILL VALID
templates:
   icon_color: if (state === 'home') return 'blue'; return 'red';

Note the "keys" (state, icon_color) differs.

Other templating still works the same.