"Due Tasks" does not show properly

[kathytu]

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Describe the issue

When adding the "Tasks Due" entity to my Home Assistant dashboard, I choose "Due Tasks" to show as the State of the entity that I want shown. When I do that, the task that is due shows up like this rather than the name of the task: ["description"."test""binary_sensor:"binary_sensor.maint_test" ]

See example in screenshot:

Reproduction steps

1. Add "Tasks Due" as an entity in a dashboard. HA suggests tile card configuration.
2. Edit the tile card so that "Due Tasks" is configured as the state of the card.
3. See code instead of task name.

[pkolbus]

"Due tasks" is an attribute of the entity; it is not a string but actually a list (of description, binary_sensor); you can confirm this by viewing the entity's details (or Settings > Developer Tools > States):

Some manipulation (templating) would need to be done to display this in a friendly way. The tile card doesn't allow for using templates, but there are others that do, including the Mushroom Template card. Depending on what you're aiming to achieve, auto-entities may also be useful

Mushroom Template

Mushroom (https://github.com/piitaya/lovelace-mushroom) provides a template card that allows full customization. In the following example I'm taking the due_tasks attribute, selecting the "description" property from each list element, then joining all of these with a comma. Many other approaches are possible; you could take the first list element (or first few), sort the list, etc.

type: custom:mushroom-template-card
secondary: >-
  {{ states.sensor.maint_tasks_due.attributes.due_tasks |
  map(attribute="description") | join(", ") }}
features_position: bottom
entity: sensor.maint_tasks_due
primary: "{{ states.sensor.maint_tasks_due.attributes.friendly_name }}"
icon: mdi:eye

auto-entities

Since Maint also creates a binary sensor for each task that is on when the task is due, another approach would be to use an auto-entities card. https://github.com/Lint-Free-Technology/lovelace-auto-entities. This approach allows for more space. (Since Home Assistant normally includes the device in the displayed friendly name, you'll also want to adjust this in the rename tab).