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Animated string lights icon for Home Assistant

An arc of Edison bulb string lights: when on, the bulbs glow warm with a gentle twinkle running along the string.

2 states: off and on. Part of the garden & outdoor 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 string lights icon

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

  • OffResting state, shown when the device is off or idle.
  • On

Which Home Assistant entities fit

  • light entities. The card reads the light entity's on state, and the glow follows brightness and color on dimmable lights.
  • Picked automatically when the entity or device name contains "string light", "fairy", "festoon", 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 on, off shows off.
  • 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 String lights 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: light.string_lights
icon: string_lights

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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.