AlertTicker Card for Home Assistant

A custom Lovelace card to display alerts and notifications based on entity states. Supports 52 visual themes (including 4 dedicated timer themes, 8 spectacular 3D themes, and 2 weather forecast themes), 12 transition animations, card interactions, entity filter, device class auto-discovery, grouped alerts with expand/collapse, alert history, snooze, secondary entity values, timer countdown, full Jinja2 template support, vertical layout, HA global theme adaptation, global overlay/toast notifications visible from any dashboard view, per-alert time windows, per-alert user visibility, manual alert navigation, animated weather/clock clear widget, 7-day weather forecast widget, media player mode with album art and playback controls, Text-to-Speech announcements (standard TTS, Alexa, Google Home), mobile push notifications, live camera snapshots in the overlay banner, and a complete visual editor — all without writing a single line of YAML.

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Community Contributors

A special thank you to @edwardtich1 for contributing the full Russian (RU) language translation — covering all card labels, editor UI, theme defaults, and operator names. (#53)

A special thank you to @vdt2210 for contributing the Vietnamese (VI) language translation. (#12)

A special thank you to @kgn3400 for contributing the full Danish (DA) language translation — covering all card labels, editor UI, theme defaults, operator names, and overlay strings. (#57)

A special thank you to @feixm1 for contributing the full Czech (CS) language translation — covering all card labels, editor UI, theme defaults, operator names, and overlay strings. (#74)

A special thank you to @Bsector for contributing the Portuguese / pt-BR language translation — providing the core card runtime strings that formed the basis of the full pt-BR support now included in the card. (#90)

A special thank you to @yunusuztr for contributing the full Turkish (TR) language translation — covering all card labels, editor UI, theme defaults, TTS prefixes, operator names, and overlay strings. (#134)

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Video Tutorial

A big thank you to SmartHomeJunkie for making a dedicated video about AlertTicker Card!

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Features at a Glance

Feature	Details
Themes	50 visual themes in 6 categories (including 4 timer themes and 8 new 3D spectacular themes)
Animations	12 selectable transition animations between alerts
Per-alert theme	Each alert has its own independent theme
Multiple entities	Unlimited alerts per card
Priority system	4 levels — Critical, Warning, Info, Low
tap / hold / double-tap	Standard Lovelace card interactions per alert
Attribute triggers	Trigger on any entity attribute (e.g. battery_level)
AND / OR conditions	Multiple entities must match (all or at least one)
Numeric conditions	Trigger on >, <, >=, <=, != for sensor values
on_change	Trigger on any state change regardless of condition — with optional auto-dismiss
time_range	Restrict any alert to a specific time window (e.g. 22:00–07:00, midnight crossing supported)
visible_to	Restrict alert visibility to specific HA users (admin, non_admin, or by display name)
secondary_entity	Live entity value shown below the message
Jinja2 templates	Full HA template syntax in messages — rendered server-side with live updates
Jinja2 in state	Trigger threshold driven by a helper entity via {{ states(...) }} template
entity_filter	Text filter — one alert per matched entity, with exclude list and wildcard * support
device_class	Auto-discover all entities with a given HA device class (e.g. smoke, , )

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🔊 Text-to-Speech Announcements (new in 1.2.2)

Make Home Assistant read your alerts aloud the moment they trigger — on any speaker, Alexa Echo device, or Google Home.

# Standard HA TTS (media_player + TTS engine)
alerts:
  - entity: binary_sensor.smoke_detector
    state: "on"
    message: "Smoke detected!"
    theme: fire
    tts: true                            # enable TTS for this alert
    tts_entity: media_player.living_room # speaker to use
    # tts_engine: tts.google_en_com      # auto-detected if omitted

# Alexa Echo (via notify service)
alerts:
  - entity: binary_sensor.front_door
    state: "on"
    message: "Front door open"
    tts: true
    tts_notify_service: alexa_media_echo_dot_kitchen
    tts_message: "Attention — the front door is open"   # optional custom sentence

How it works

• Enable tts: true on any individual alert.
• If no tts_message is set, the card auto-generates a natural sentence from a built-in dictionary in 10 languages, based on the alert's theme category. For example, a critical theme in Italian produces "Allarme critico: Sensore fumo cucina".
• The spoken language is read from hass.language and falls back to English automatically.
• Set a global master toggle (tts_enabled: false) in the General tab to disable all TTS at once without losing per-alert settings.

TTS service options

Method	When to use	Config
Standard TTS	HA media players, Sonos, Chromecast	tts_entity (speaker) + optional tts_engine
notify service	Alexa, Google Home via notify, mobile push	tts_notify_service (any notify.* service)

Per-alert fields override global card-level defaults, so you can have one speaker for most alerts and a different one for critical alerts.

Card-level TTS options

Option	Type	Default	Description
tts_enabled	boolean	true	Master toggle — set false to silence all TTS globally
tts_entity	string	—	Default media_player.* speaker entity
tts_engine	string	(auto)	TTS engine entity (auto-detected from first tts.* state)
tts_notify_service	string	—	Default notify service for Alexa / push
tts_language	string	—	Language code passed to tts.speak (e.g. it-IT)

Per-alert TTS options

Option	Type	Description
tts	boolean	Enable TTS for this alert
tts_entity	string	Override the global speaker for this alert
tts_engine	string	Override the global TTS engine
tts_notify_service	string	Override the global notify service
tts_message	string	Custom spoken text (supports {name}, {state}, Jinja2)

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📱 Mobile Push Notifications (new in 1.3)

Send a push notification to any Home Assistant