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Animated mailbox icon for Home Assistant

A classic post mounted mailbox: empty with the flag down and the door shut; with mail the red flag swings up and the door stands slightly open showing letters inside.

2 states: empty and mail. Part of the garden & outdoor icons in the Animara Full Pack.

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

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

States of the mailbox icon

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

  • EmptyResting state, shown when the device is off or idle.
  • Mail

Which Home Assistant entities fit

  • Picked automatically when the entity or device name contains "mailbox", "letterbox", on switch, input_boolean, binary_sensor or sensor entities.
  • Any entity that is simply on or off, such as a switch or input_boolean: on shows mail, off shows empty. Entity states named like a state below (for example mail) 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 Mailbox 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.mailbox
icon: mailbox

Mapping words yourself looks like this:

states:
  "on": mail

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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.