Time Picker Card

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Overview

This is a Time Picker Card for Home Assistant's Lovelace UI.

Supports a Time entity or an Input Datetime entity 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.

!Visual Editor

Examples

Default config - card name shown, 24 hour mode

!Default theme with card name

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

Custom config - hidden card name, 12 hour mode

!Default theme with no card name

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

time entity

type: custom:time-picker-card
entity: time.alarm_time
minute_step: 5

The card reads the time entity's HH:MM:SS state and updates it using time.set_value.

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

!Default theme with single hour mode

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

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

Dark theme, embedded layout

!Dark theme embedded

Dark theme, thin layout

!Dark theme thin layout

With a custom lovelace theme

!Custom theme

Options

| Name | Type | Requirement | Description | Default | | ----------------- | ------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | | type | string | Required | custom:time-picker-card | | | entity | string | Required | Time entity or 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 | | 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:

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 for details.

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