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Animated solar water heater icon for Home Assistant

A rooftop solar collector with a horizontal tank: while heating, the collector tubes run hot amber with water rising into the tank, the tank window warms and the gauge fills; on electric boost the heating element glows and the boost LED lights.

3 states: idle, heating and boost. 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 solar water heater icon

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

  • IdleResting state, shown when the device is off or idle.
  • Heating
  • Boost

Which Home Assistant entities fit

  • Any entity that is simply on or off, such as a switch or input_boolean: on shows heating, off shows idle. Entity states named like a state below (for example boost) 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 Solar water heater 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.solar_water_heater
icon: solar_water_heater

Mapping words yourself looks like this:

states:
  "on": boost

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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.