If you’ve ever scrolled past a cluttered Home Assistant dashboard — peppered with conditional cards for the freezer door, the mailbox, low batteries, and more — the Alert Ticker Card is about to change your life.
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What Is the Home Assistant Alert Ticker Card? The Alert Ticker Card is a HACS custom dashboard card developed by DJ Devil that consolidates all your Home Assistant notifications into one sleek, animated display. Instead of building separate conditional cards for each alert, this card handles everything in one place, with smooth transitions and a clean design that looks far more polished than a stack of standard tile cards.
How to Install via HACS You’ll need HACS installed first. Once you’re in, add it as a custom repository (HACS → three-dot menu → Custom Repositories), paste the repo URL, select Dashboard type, install it, reboot Home Assistant, and flush your cache.
General Settings — cycle interval, transition animation (Slide, Flip, Split, Roll, and more), history log, and a “no alerts” placeholder state.
Creating Alerts — trigger on any entity, use wildcard entity filters (e.g. sensor.battery_*_level), stack conditions, and write dynamic messages with template code. Alert themes range from info to alarm (flashing red) to fire (wiggling animation).
Snooze & Actions — assign tap/hold actions that call services to dismiss the alert and reset the underlying entity in one click.
Sound Notifications — plays a tone or custom MP3 via browser autoplay when an alert fires.
Verdict — One of the best HACS cards I’ve added to my dashboard. Easy to install, flexible, and far more polished than conditional tile stacks. If you have HACS, add this today.
