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Animated energy flow icon for Home Assistant

A compact solar panel, house, grid pylon and home battery joined by short cables: idle rests calm, and soft light pulses run along the cable that carries power, from the sun to the home, from the sun to the grid, from the grid to the home, or from the battery to the home.

5 states: idle, solar to home, solar to grid, grid to home and battery to home. Part of the energy icons in the Animara Full Pack.

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Preview recording of the real artwork, about 2.5 seconds per state. The icon in the pack has no watermark.

States of the energy flow icon

The card picks the state from your entity, so the icon always shows what the energy flow is doing.

  • IdleResting state, shown when the device is off or idle.
  • Solar to home
  • Solar to grid
  • Grid to home
  • Battery to home

Which Home Assistant entities fit

  • Any entity that is simply on or off, such as a switch or input_boolean: on shows solar to home, off shows idle. Entity states named like a state below (for example battery_to_home) are used directly.
  • Works with any entity whose state you map: pick this icon in the card and map your entity's own state words to these states with the card's states: option.

How to use it in Home Assistant

  1. Install the Animara card: one link install, HACS as a custom repository, or copy animara-card.js to /config/www.
  2. Edit your dashboard, choose Add card, then Animara.
  3. Pick your entity. Choose Energy flow in the Icon list if it is not detected automatically.
  4. Paste your Full Pack license key into the License key field once per dashboard.

Prefer YAML? This is all it takes:

type: custom:animara-card
entity: switch.energy_flow
icon: energy_flow

Mapping words yourself looks like this:

states:
  "on": battery_to_home

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Get the Full Pack · $24Free sampler on GitHub

One time payment, 14 day refund. The free sampler has 12 icons and the same card.