Alarm chip icon color not honored

[piitaya]

Alarm chip icon color not honored

[piitaya]

The chip color is only applied when entity state is active (armed for alarm for example). It's the same behaviour than entity card.
Maybe we should edit the label or display this info in the editor.

[piitaya]

It's a documenation issue, this should be fixed when #73 will be done

[bemble]

@piitaya maybe we could create an alarm chip, like the light chip?

[brandensilva]

@piitaya I see. Why not support both colors? Similar to how we think about "on" and "off" states having two distinct states, it seems like it would be beneficial if the colors could support both of those to cover all the use cases around that.

[piitaya]

For entity chip, the rules are :

• entity is inactive (off, disarmed, not_home) : non-colored state
• entity is active (on, playing, armed, home, etc...) : colored state

For entity card, the rules are :

• entity is inactive (off, disarmed, not_home) : disabled state
• entity is active (on, playing, armed, home, etc...) : colored state

I think we must create an alarm chip as proposed by @pierrecle to have the same color rules than the alarm panel card.

[brandensilva]

I gotcha. I'm less familiar with the code base at this point but out of curiosity why do entity chips function differently than entity cards regarding their color states?

I'm not opposed to an alarm chip either but it seems like it is always a necessity to make new chips to accommodate the behavior people might be expecting to function similar to entity cards.

[piitaya]

Today we have the same behaviour for entity chip and entity card : only two state and two colors (colored when active, uncolored when inactive)

Your alarm is disarmed so it's considered as inactive for entity card and chip => uncolored

Alarm card have multiple state and colors :

• triggered : red
• armed : green
• disarmed : blue
• unavailable : grey

If we want chip with these colors, we need to have an alarm chip because entity have only 2 states : colored when active, grey when active (like entity card)
What behaviour do your want with your chip?

[brandensilva]

Ah right for some reason I thought I was using an alarm chip but you are right, it's just an entity chip for the alarm control panel entity. My mistake.

Yeah, I think the alarm chip should operate the same as the alarm card then with the 4 colored states. Because I only use the alarm chip for knowing the state of something and rarely have to change it myself (due to automations handling that side) it would be useful to have it as it's a much more compact form of displaying the needed alarm info as shown: