Novastar H Series Card

Lovelace frontend card for the Novastar H Series Home Assistant integration.

Prerequisite

This card requires the HA-novastar-h Home Assistant device integration to be installed first:

https://github.com/tedr91/HA-novastar-h

Features

• Displays a primary controller entity state.
• Supports optional status, brightness, and temperature entities.
• Includes a visual Lovelace card editor in the dashboard UI.
• Ships as a single HACS-distributed frontend module.

Install via HACS

1. Add this repository as a custom frontend repository in HACS.
2. Install Novastar H Series Card.
3. Restart Home Assistant.
4. Add the card to a dashboard.

Manual Install

1. Run npm install.
2. Build with npm run build.
3. Copy novastar-h-series-card.js to your Home Assistant /config/www/ folder.
4. Add resource:

url: /local/novastar-h-series-card.js
type: module

Card Configuration

type: custom:novastar-h-series-card
title: Novastar H Series
display_mode: full
controller_entity: sensor.novastar_h_series_controller
status_entity: sensor.novastar_h_series_status
brightness_entity: sensor.novastar_h_series_brightness
temperature_entity: sensor.novastar_h_series_temperature

controller_entity is required. All other fields are optional.

display_mode options:

• full (default): full card with status/controls plus layout preview.
• layout: layout-only output (screen layout and layer source interaction only).

show_title_in_layout options:

• false (default): hide the title bar in layout mode.
• true: show the title bar in layout mode.

Layout-only example:

type: custom:novastar-h-series-card
title: Novastar Layout
display_mode: layout
show_title_in_layout: true
device_id: YOUR_DEVICE_ID

Development

• npm run build creates a production bundle in the repository root.
• npm run watch rebuilds on file change.

Windows PowerShell note

If PowerShell blocks npm with an execution policy error for npm.ps1, run commands with npm.cmd instead:

• npm.cmd install
• npm.cmd run build

You can also run cmd /c npm install and cmd /c npm run build.