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Lights ​

The Lights card is a guided card type for Home Assistant light entities. It keeps the common light controls together, so you can choose whether a light should behave like a switch, a brightness slider, or a colour temperature slider.

Setting Up a Light Card ​

  1. Select a card and change its type to Lights.
  2. Choose the light Type:
    • Switch turns the light on or off with a tap.
    • Brightness lets you drag a vertical slider from 0 to 100 percent.
    • Colour Temperature lets you drag a vertical slider between warm and cool white.
  3. Enter the Home Assistant light entity, for example light.living_room.
  4. Set a Label if you want custom text. If left blank, the friendly name from Home Assistant is used.
  5. Choose the icon fields shown for the selected type.

Switch ​

Switch mode is a light-specific version of a normal Switch card.

  • Tapping the card toggles the light through Home Assistant.
  • The card uses separate Off Icon and On Icon settings.
  • The card lights up while Home Assistant reports the light as on.

Use this when you only need quick on/off control.

Brightness ​

Brightness mode gives the card a vertical fill bar.

  • Drag the fill bar to set brightness from 0 to 100 percent.
  • Releasing the slider sends light.turn_on with brightness_pct.
  • Dragging to 0 turns the light off.
  • The fill bar follows brightness changes made elsewhere in Home Assistant.

Use this when you want direct dimmer-style control from the panel.

Colour Temperature ​

Colour Temperature mode controls the white temperature of a light.

  • Drag the fill bar to move between the configured minimum and maximum Kelvin values.
  • The default range is 2000 K to 6500 K.
  • The bottom of the slider is warmer; the top is cooler.
  • Releasing the slider sends light.turn_on with color_temp_kelvin.

This mode needs a Home Assistant light that supports colour temperature. If a light only supports on/off or brightness, use Switch or Brightness instead.

Lights vs Slider ​

Use Lights for light-specific controls. Use Slider when you want a generic slider for a light or fan, especially fan speed control.

Requires Home Assistant actions

Light cards send Home Assistant actions from the panel. If tapping or dragging a card does nothing, check Home Assistant Actions.