Time Picker Card
Overview
This is a Time Picker Card for Home Assistant's Lovelace UI.
Requires an Input Datetime that has time (has_time: true).
Installation
HACS
Install using HACS and add the following to your config:
resources:
- url: /hacsfiles/lovelace-time-picker-card/time-picker-card.js
type: module
Manual
Download time-picker-card.js from the latest realease and place it in your config/www folder. Add the following to your config:
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.
Examples
Default config - card name shown, 24 hour mode
type: 'custom:time-picker-card'
entity: input_datetime.alarm_time
Custom config - hidden card name, 12 hour mode
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
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
type: 'custom:time-picker-card'
entity: input_datetime.alarm_time
layout:
name: inside
align_controls: center
Dark theme, embedded layout
Dark theme, thin layout
With a custom lovelace theme
Options
| Name | Type | Requirement | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| type | string | Required | custom:time-picker-card |
|
| entity | string | Required | Input Datetime entity with has_time: true |
|
| name | string / list | Optional | Card name. Accepts a structured name 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 |
| 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:
type: custom:time-picker-card
entity: input_datetime.alarm
name:
- type: area
- type: entity
Available part types are entity, device, parent_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 for details.
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