# Time Picker Card

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## Overview

This is a Time Picker Card for [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/)'s [Lovelace UI](https://www.home-assistant.io/lovelace).

Requires an [Input Datetime](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/input_datetime/) that has time (`has_time: true`).

## Installation

### HACS

Install using [HACS](https://hacs.xyz) and add the following to your config:

```yaml
resources:
  - url: /hacsfiles/lovelace-time-picker-card/time-picker-card.js
    type: module
```

### Manual

Download time-picker-card.js from the [latest realease](https://github.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/releases/latest) and place it in your `config/www` folder. Add the following to your config:

```yaml
resources:
  - url: /local/time-picker-card.js
    type: module
```

## Usage

### Visual Editor

Time Picker Card supports Lovelace's Visual Editor. Click the + button to add a card and search for time picker.

![Visual Editor](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/master/examples/visual_editor.png)

## Examples

### Default config - card name shown, 24 hour mode

![Default theme with card name](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/master/examples/default_with_name.png)

```yaml
type: 'custom:time-picker-card'
entity: input_datetime.alarm_time
```

### Custom config - hidden card name, 12 hour mode

![Default theme with no card name](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/master/examples/default_without_name.png)

```yaml
type: 'custom:time-picker-card'
entity: input_datetime.alarm_time
hour_mode: 12
hide:
  name: true
```

### Custom config - hidden card name, 12 hour mode with a "single" hour mode picker

![Default theme with single hour mode](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/master/examples/single_hour_mode.png)

```yaml
type: 'custom:time-picker-card'
entity: input_datetime.alarm_time
hour_mode: 12
layout:
  hour_mode: single
  align_controls: right
hide:
  name: true
```

### Custom config - card name inside card and controls aligned right

![Default theme with single hour mode](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/master/examples/name_inside.png)

```yaml
type: 'custom:time-picker-card'
entity: input_datetime.alarm_time
layout:
  name: inside
  align_controls: center
```

### Dark theme, embedded layout

![Dark theme embedded](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/master/examples/dark_embedded.png)

### Dark theme, thin layout

![Dark theme thin layout](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/master/examples/dark_thin.png)

### With a custom lovelace theme

![Custom theme](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GeorgeSG/lovelace-time-picker-card/master/examples/custom.png)

## Options

| Name              | Type          | Requirement  | Description                                                                                               | Default       |
| ----------------- | ------------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
| type              | string        | **Required** | `custom:time-picker-card`                                                                                 |               |
| entity            | string        | **Required** | [Input Datetime](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/input_datetime/) entity with `has_time: true` |               |
| name              | string / list | **Optional** | Card name. Accepts a [structured name](#structured-names) on Home Assistant 2026.4 and later.             | Entity's name |
| link_values       | boolean       | **Optional** | If enabled, will change hour when minutes overflow. E.g. will go from 11:55 to 12:00, instead of 11:00    | `false`       |
| hour_mode         | `12` or `24`  | **Optional** | Hour format. If `12`, card will show AM/PM picker                                                         | `24`          |
| hour_step         | number        | **Optional** | Hour change when clicking arrows                                                                          | `1`           |
| minute_step       | number        | **Optional** | Minute change when clicking arrows                                                                        | `5`           |
| second_step       | number        | **Optional** | Second change when clicking arrows (only with `hide.seconds: false`)                                      | `5`           |
| delay             | number        | **Optional** | Delay in ms before updating entity                                                                        | `0`           |
| layout            | object        | **Optional** | Card Layout configuration                                                                                 | `none`        |
| hide              | object        | **Optional** | Hide object                                                                                               | `none`        |
| tap_action        | action        | **Optional** | Home assistant action to perform on tap                                                                   | `more-info`   |
| double_tap_action | action        | **Optional** | Home assistant action to perform on tap                                                                   | `more-info`   |
| hold_action       | action        | **Optional** | Home assistant action to perform on tap                                                                   | `more-info`   |

### Layout Object

| Name           | Value                     | Requirement  | Description                                                                                        | Default  |
| -------------- | ------------------------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- |
| hour_mode      | `single`, `double`        | **Optional** | Whether to show both AM/PM or just the current mode. In `single` mode, tap the value to change it. | `double` |
| align_controls | `left`, `center`, `right` | **Optional** | Horizontal alignment of the controls                                                               | `center` |
| name           | `header`, `inside`        | **Optional** | Whether to show the name as a header or inside the card                                            | `header` |
| embedded       | boolean                   | **Optional** | Render with embedded style - disables padding, box shadow, and card header                         | `false`  |
| thin           | boolean                   | **Optional** | Render with reduced paddings                                                                       | `false`  |

### Hide Object

| Name    | Type    | Requirement  | Description                                       | Default |
| ------- | ------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| name    | boolean | **Optional** | Hides the card name                               | `false` |
| icon    | boolean | **Optional** | Hides the card icon (only with controls "inside") | `false` |
| seconds | boolean | **Optional** | Hides seconds input                               | `true`  |

### Theme Variables

Time Picker Card will automatically pick up colors from your lovelace theme, but if you want to customize some of them,
you can use the following variables in your theme's config file:

| Name                                  | Default                        | Description                                                                                          |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| time-picker-elements-background-color | `var(--primary-color)`         | Background color for header and inputs                                                               |
| time-picker-icon-color                | `var(--primary-text-color)`    | Arrow color                                                                                          |
| time-picker-text-color                | `white`                        | Text color                                                                                           |
| time-picker-accent-color              | `var(--primary-color)`         | AM / PM active color                                                                                 |
| time-picker-off-color                 | `var(--disabled-text-color)`   | AM / PM inactive color                                                                               |
| time-picker-border-radius             | `var(--ha-card-border-radius)` | Border radius of the card                                                                            |
| time-picker-control-padding           | `8px`                          | Padding for interactive elements. Increase for larger hitboxes of the controls. Example: `10px 12px` |

### Structured names

_Requires Home Assistant 2026.4 or later. On earlier versions a structured `name` falls back to the entity's friendly name._

Home Assistant composes an entity's display name out of its registry context
(entity, device, area, floor) rather than one `friendly_name` string. `name` can
be a list of those parts instead of a plain string, so it keeps following renames
and matches what the built-in cards show:

```yaml
type: custom:time-picker-card
entity: input_datetime.alarm
name:
  - type: area
  - type: entity
```

Available part types are `entity`, `device`, `area`, `floor`, and
`text` (a literal, written as `{type: text, text: 'Alarm'}`). Parts that resolve to
nothing are dropped. A plain string `name` keeps working exactly as before, and the
visual editor offers both modes on Home Assistant 2025.11 and later.

See the [Home Assistant developer documentation](https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/frontend/data#hassformatentitynamestateobj-name-options) for details.

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