Indoor horizontal temperature card with background

Who it’s for

Facility managers, building managers, and smart home owners ask “can I monitor temperature across many rooms in a compact layout where the comfort status is still instantly visible?” The horizontal background variant combines space efficiency with the full-card color signal.

What it does

A sensor reporting temperature = 21°C displays the reading in a horizontal card whose entire background fills with the comfort color: blue for Cold (below 18°C), light green for Comfortable (18–24°C), and red for Hot (above 24°C).

• Full-card background color makes temperature comfort level readable across a room without reading the number
• Horizontal layout fits more rooms per row on a multi-zone comfort dashboard
• Shows one sensor’s reading per widget; tile multiple widgets to monitor all rooms at a glance

How to set up

Data keys

Key	Role	Type	Description
temperature	Main value	Timeseries	Indoor temperature in °C; change the key name to match your device’s telemetry key

The widget ships with a simulated function datasource key labeled Temperature, so it draws random values until you point the datasource at a device and rename the key.

To point it at your own device: open the dashboard in edit mode, open the widget’s Datasources, pick the entity or entity alias, and replace the function key with the key your device reports.

Value ranges

Range (°C)	Level	Color
0–18	Cold	Blue
18–24	Comfortable	Green
24+	Hot	Red

How to customize

• To change the comfort thresholds — edit Icon color ranges and Value color ranges; set the same boundaries in both so the icon and the number always agree.
• To change the background colors — edit the background color for each comfort level in the widget settings.
• To switch units to °F — change the Units field and adjust the thresholds accordingly in the widget settings.

Tips

• A row of horizontal background cards, one per room, lets the facilities manager immediately identify which spaces are outside the comfort range during a building-wide incident — a bank of red cards on a hot afternoon pinpoints which zones have lost cooling.
• Use consistent comfort colors across all temperature widgets: green is comfortable, blue needs heating, red needs cooling.
• For tenant sign-off after a planned HVAC commissioning test, the colored row provides an instant multi-room clearance check that all zones have reached the target comfort band.