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Animated TV icon for Home Assistant

Off shows a glossy black screen, playing shows a moving colorful scene, and paused freezes and dims the picture with a softly breathing pause bar.

3 states: off, playing and paused. Part of the media 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 TV icon

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

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

Which Home Assistant entities fit

  • media_player entities with device class tv are detected as this icon automatically.
  • Picked automatically when the entity or device name contains "tv", "television", "fernseher", on media_player, switch, input_boolean, binary_sensor or sensor entities.
  • Any entity that is simply on or off, such as a media_player, switch or input_boolean: on shows playing, off shows off. Entity states named like a state below (for example paused) 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 TV 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: media_player.tv
icon: tv

Mapping words yourself looks like this:

states:
  "on": paused

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Get the Full Pack · $24Free sampler on GitHub

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