Automation Monitor Card

Features

• Two cards: a full Automation Monitor Card and a compact Automation Monitor Mini Card
• Overall status at a glance: all good, the number of problems, or "Sensor unavailable" when a sensor of the integration cannot be read (its counter then shows a dash instead of 0)
• Counters of failed automations and unavailable linked entities; a list is only shown when it has something to show
• Failed automations: name, time of the last failure, error message, failed step and consecutive failures
• Trace and Edit buttons opening the automation's trace and editor in Home Assistant
• Clear a failure (or Clear all) with the integration's automation_monitor.reset action, with confirmation
• Unavailable linked entities: name, entity id, how long it has been unavailable and the automations, scripts and scenes that use it (click one to open its editor)
• Refresh button in the header of both cards, rebuilding the list of linked entities (automation_monitor.rebuild_linked_entities)
• Detail button at the top right of the mini card: it switches to the full card and back; a click anywhere outside the card brings the compact view back
• Failed automations and unavailable linked entities are folded by default: click the section title to unfold them; long lists are cut to a configurable number of items, with a "Show more" button
• Click a counter, an automation or an entity to open its Home Assistant more-info dialog
• Trace, Edit, Clear, Clear all, Refresh and the editor links under Used by are for administrators only: other users don't see them (a Used by item opens its more-info dialog instead)
• Visual editor in the dashboard UI for both cards (no YAML needed)
• Narrow cards (6 columns of the Sections view, the mini card's default size, down to ~156 px on a phone) stay readable: below ~384 px Clear all shows only its icon and the counters stack; the icon gets smaller below 320 px and is hidden below 280 px, so the status chip keeps its whole label; below 245 px the chip shrinks to its dot (its text stays in the tooltip)
• Light and dark mode, English, French, German, Spanish, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Italian, Dutch, European Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Danish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Latvian and Greek
• Single file, no external dependency

Supported integrations

Prerequisites

The Automation Monitor integration must be installed and configured (it is available in the Marketplace, added from a link), with Home Assistant 2024.8 or later.

Configuration

Visual editor#

Edit a dashboard, click Add card and search for Automation Monitor Card or Automation Monitor Mini Card. There is nothing to pick: the sensors of the integration are found automatically. Set an optional title, choose the sections to display, whether lists are expanded by default, the action buttons, the number of items per list and the language. The preview updates live, and options left at their default are kept out of the generated YAML.

Minimal#

type: custom:automation-monitor-card

type: custom:automation-monitor-mini-card

Full options#

type: custom:automation-monitor-card
title: Automations
show_failed: true
show_linked: true
expand_failed: false
expand_linked: false
show_details: true
show_controls: true
max_items: 5
hide_when_ok: false
exclude_devices:
  - Garage door sensor
  - 4f1c2e9d8b7a6c5d4e3f2a1b0c9d8e7f
exclude_entities:
  - automation.test_*
  - sensor.guest_room_temperature
language: fr

type: custom:automation-monitor-mini-card
title: Automations
show_failed: true
show_linked: true
hide_when_ok: false
zoom: true
language: fr

Options reference#

How it works

The integration exposes two sensors: Failed automations, whose automations attribute lists the automations whose last run failed (error message, failed step, time, consecutive failures), and Linked entities unavailable, whose entities attribute lists the entities used by automations, scripts and scenes that have been unavailable longer than the configured threshold. The cards find both sensors in the entity registry by their translation_key (failed_automations, linked_entities_unavailable), so they work even when the entity ids are translated or renamed.

The Trace and Edit buttons use the automation's id: they work for automations created in the UI (or with an id: in YAML). Scripts and scenes listed under Used by open their editor the same way.

Clear calls automation_monitor.reset for one automation, Clear all for all of them: the failure disappears until the automation fails again. When exclude_devices or exclude_entities hide some failed automations, Clear all only clears the ones listed (one call per automation) and leaves the hidden ones untouched. Refresh calls automation_monitor.rebuild_linked_entities, useful right after editing a script or a scene.

What counts as a failure, the unavailability threshold, the exclusions and the Repairs issues are set in the integration's options: see its documentation.

Support

If you find this project useful, you can support its development:

Fixes

• Translations: the cards are defined once the page's language file has arrived (at most 1.5 s; Home Assistant builds a card when its element gets defined), so the first render is already translated instead of English then redrawn; until a language file is in, a missing text reads the English one wherever the card has no fallback of its own.

Performance

• Translations load on demand: the bundle keeps English only (123 KB → 74 KB) and each other language is its own automation-monitor-card.i18n.<lang>.js file next to it, fetched the first time a card needs it. Home Assistant loads every dashboard resource on every dashboard, so each page used to download and parse all 22 languages to use one. Until a language file has arrived (a few milliseconds), texts fall back to English, and the cards redraw once it is there.

Maintenance

• Build: scripts/i18n-split.mjs splits the built bundle and rebuilds every table from the split files to check them (the build fails on any difference); src/ keeps every language as before.
• Release: every file of dist/ is attached. Manual installation copies the translation files too.

Fixes

• Cards: the Refresh and detail buttons, which only show an icon, now have an accessible name, the detail button tells screen readers whether the full card is shown, and the confirmation popup is announced with its message.
• Cards: only the filter of the current Ignored entities value is kept in memory, instead of one per value ever used.

What's new

• Cards: Ignored entities (exclude_entities), in the visual editor of both cards: entity ids or patterns with * and ? (e.g. automation.test_*) whose failed automations and unavailable linked entities are left out of the lists, counters and status.

Security

• Cards: the Trace, Edit, Clear, Clear all and Refresh buttons and the editor links under "Used by" are only shown to administrators; other users open the more-info dialog from "Used by" instead.

Fixes

• Full card: Clear all no longer clears failed automations hidden by exclude_devices or exclude_entities; it then clears only the listed ones.
• Cards: the date and time shown when hovering a failure time follow the 12 / 24 h setting of the Home Assistant profile.

Documentation

• README: images and links use absolute URLs, so the screenshots, icons, badges and links display in HACS (relative paths broke there).
• README: screenshots get a display size, so cards no longer show oversized in HACS and on GitHub.

Added

• Added Romanian, Danish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Latvian and Greek translations: ro, da, sv, bg, ru, uk, hu, sk, cs, sl, lv and el, picked automatically from the Home Assistant language and offered in the editor's language list, with their plural forms for the counters ("2 проблемы", "5 problémů", "2 težavi"…).