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Vacuum cleaner card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI

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Vacuum Card

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Vacuum cleaner card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI

By default, Home Assistant does not provide any card for controlling vacuum cleaners. This card displays the state and allows to control your robot.

Preview of vacuum-card

Installing

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HACS

This card is available in HACS (Home Assistant Community Store).

Just search for Vacuum Card in plugins tab.

Manual

  1. Download vacuum-card.js file from the latest-release.
  2. Put vacuum-card.js file into your config/www folder.
  3. Add reference to vacuum-card.js in Lovelace. There's two way to do that:
    1. Using UI: ConfigurationLovelace DashboardsResources → Click Plus button → Set Url as /local/vacuum-card.js → Set Resource type as JavaScript Module.
    2. Using YAML: Add following code to lovelace section.
      resources:
        - url: /local/vacuum-card.js
          type: module
  4. Add custom:vacuum-card to Lovelace UI as any other card (using either editor or YAML configuration).

Using the card

This card can be configured using Lovelace UI editor.

  1. In Lovelace UI, click 3 dots in top left corner.
  2. Click Configure UI.
  3. Click Plus button to add a new card.
  4. Find Custom: Vacuum Card in the list.
  5. Choose entity.
  6. Now you should see the preview of the card!

Sorry, no support for actions and stats in visual config yet.

Typical example of using this card in YAML config would look like this:

type: 'custom:vacuum-card'
entity: vacuum.vacuum_cleaner
stats:
  default:
    - attribute: filter_left
      unit: hours
      subtitle: Filter
    - attribute: side_brush_left
      unit: hours
      subtitle: Side brush
    - attribute: main_brush_left
      unit: hours
      subtitle: Main brush
    - attribute: sensor_dirty_left
      unit: hours
      subtitle: Sensors
  cleaning:
    - attribute: cleaned_area
      unit: m2
      subtitle: Cleaning area
    - attribute: cleaning_time
      unit: minutes
      subtitle: Cleaning time
actions:
  - name: Clean living room
    service: script.clean_living_room
    icon: 'mdi:sofa'
  - name: Clean bedroom
    service: script.clean_bedroom
    icon: 'mdi:bed-empty'
  - name: Clean kitchen
    service: script.clean_kitchen
    icon: 'mdi:silverware-fork-knife'

Here is what every option means:

Name Type Default Description
type string Required custom:vacuum-card
entity string Required An entity_id within the vacuum domain.
map string Optional An entity_id within the camera domain, for streaming live vacuum map.
image string default Path to image of your vacuum cleaner. Better to have png or svg.
show_name boolean true Show friendly name of the vacuum.
show_toolbar boolean true Show toolbar with actions.
stats object Optional Custom per state stats for your vacuum cleaner
actions object Optional Custom actions for your vacuum cleaner.

stats object

Name Type Default Description
attribute string Optional Attribute name of the stat, i.e. filter_left.
unit string Optional Unit of measure, i.e. hours.
subtitle string Optional Friendly name of the stat, i.e. Filter.

actions object

You can defined custom scripts for custom actions i.e cleaning specific room and add them to this card with actions option.

Name Type Default Description
name string Optional Friendly name of the action, i.e. Clean bedroom.
service string Optional A service to call, i.e. script.clean_bedroom.
icon string Optional Any icon for action button.
service_data object service_data for service call

Animations

I've added some animations for this card to make it alive. Animations are applied only for image property. Here's how they look like:

Cleaning Docking
Cleaning anumation Returning anumation

Supported languages

This card supports translations. Please, help to add more translations and improve existing ones. Here's a list of supported languages:

  • English
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • Deutsche (German)
  • Français (French)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • Nederlandse (Dutch)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • Your language?

Supported models

This card relies on basic vacuum services, like pause, start, stop, return_to_base, etc. It should work with any robot vacuum, however I can physically test it only with my own robot vacuum.

If this card works with your vacuum cleaner, please open a PR and your model to the list.

  • Roborock S6
  • Roborock S5
  • Roborock S5 Max
  • Roborock S50
  • Roborock S4
  • Roborock E25
  • Xiaomi Mi Robot (STYJ02YM)
  • Xiaomi Mi Robot 1S
  • Roomba 675
  • Roomba 960
  • Dyson 360 Eye
  • Neato D7
  • Your vacuum?

Development

Want to contribute to the project?

First of all, thanks! Check contributing guideline for more information.

Inspiration

This project is heavily inspired by:

  • MacBury Smart House — basically, this project is a refinement of MacBury's custom card.
  • Benji vacuum card — this is where I noticed this vacuum card design for the first time.

Huge thanks for their ideas and efforts 👍

License

MIT © Denys Dovhan