show_empty in Sections view

[woniol]

If show_empty is set to false, card is shown in the Sections view, taking additional space.
Not sure if this is for auto-entities card or the new Sections view case?

[luisleonardo]

I can confirm and provide a screenshot.

The space in the middle is created by 6 card with "show_empty: false".

[Drun555]

These gaps driving me crazy. It seems more like Sections bug due same situation with conditional card right now.

🙏

[luisleonardo]

Any news? I still can't use the sections due to this bug and I don't even know if the problem is from auto-entities or Lovelace :(

[spartan117aut]

Hi @thomasloven,
I have the same problem. The problem with conditional cards has been fixed here, but empty auto-entities cards still occupy space. See attached screenshots.

Edit mode:

Actual display:

[igorsantos07]

I was going to open a bug on HA, as a follow-up to home-assistant/frontend#20352 (where they state the solution for the problem is using the new Visibility option, but that effectively causes us to recreate and duplicate the filters from auto-entities; not a solution). My thesis was that they should reduce --row-height and/or make it themeable, so we can fix it for our specific scenarios...

However, while writing it, I realize the default entities-filter does not show this behavior. Thus, I guess this is a bug with this custom card, which should not generate an empty card component on the UI (instead of generating an empty one).

[skynet01]

Any updates or solutions to fix this even if manually?

[christian1986]

Any news on this? Highly limit the usage of the card😕

[MrAdam]

I've made a PR that fixes this issue - I hope @thomasloven has time to look at it 😄

[pmharris77]

@MrAdam It seems the latest version of HA has fixed this for me

[MrAdam]

@MrAdam It seems the latest version of HA has fixed this for me

Same here! Well, that's great, since it looks like @thomasloven is not active at the moment 👍
I'll leave my PR though, as it makes the code mimmic how other components does it.

One thing I did notice, is that if it's empty, I can't see it in edit mode, which makes it hard to edit using the GUI.
I might look into that if this repo ever becomes active again 😄

[jackwilsdon]

It looks like this is still an issue if a hidden auto-entities card is the only thing in a section:

The large gap in the top left is where the auto-entities card is.

[MrAdam]

It looks like this is still an issue if a hidden auto-entities card is the only thing in a section:

The large gap in the top left is where the auto-entities card is.

Can you try the fix from my branch and see if it works? If yes, then maybe we should get it merged.

[sambarre]

I saw a mentioned in the thread that this was fixed by an update to HA itself, but I still seem to be having the issue

This gap in my vertical stack card is a few auto entities cards that are hidden most of the time

How would I go about testing this branch if I wanted to?

[jackwilsdon]

@MrAdam sadly it doesn't fix it.

Tried with the card both inside and outside a section.