Change tile color based on text variable value

[josh]

There’s a feature request open for Color State Mapping for Custom Attributes that you might want to cast a vote on as I think it would directly cover what you’re looking for.

Style/Icon State Mapping for Custom Attributes

Request: It would be great if the Hero Attribute tile could have a State Mapping feature similar to what’s available in the Temperature Sensor tile. – This feature is now available! – The fully customizable state mapping feature is currently only for Temperature Sensor tiles. [image] Other tile types like Switch, Contact Sensor, and others with a fixed set of states have a simplified state mapping feature. [image]

In the meantime, an alternative approach would be to use a custom driver like the one noted in the following thread:

Hubitat Safety Monitor tiles

For example, you could use the Virtual Values driver along with Hubitat’s Rule Machine as a proxy for the HSM alert. Maybe have the switch state indicate if an alarm is active and could even use the number to indicate the severity or text to indicate the type of alarm. Here’s an example post on the Hubitat community where the driver is used to display a Hubitat Rule Machine global variable. The same concepts could be applied here too: [image]

Then in your rule, you could set the text attribute to reflect the state and then flip the switch on/off to indicate whether it should be active or not.

Edit: Note that the driver implements the Notify capability, so you can use that to set the text in Rule Machine without having to define a custom command for setText().