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Animated plant sensor icon for Home Assistant

Soil sensor for plants: green leaves flutter gently on the display when all is well, and when the plant is thirsty the leaves wilt and a water drop blinks.

2 states: ok and thirsty. Part of the sensors 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 plant sensor icon

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

  • OkResting state, shown when the device is off or idle.
  • Thirsty

Which Home Assistant entities fit

  • sensor entities. The card reads the sensor's number and picks the state from the value.
  • sensor entities with device class moisture are detected as this icon automatically.
  • 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 Plant sensor 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: sensor.plant_sensor
icon: plant_sensor

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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.