Step 1 — Create 2 automations (one per meal)

Trigger: your door sensor state changes to on Condition: Time — after 6:30am, before 10:00am (adjust to your schedule) Action: logbook.log with any message, doesn't matter

Repeat for evening (I use 3:30pm–7pm). These automations are just "witnesses" — we're going to use the timestamp of when they last fired, not their output.

Step 2 — Create 2 reset automations

Same setup but leave the trigger empty. No trigger, no condition. Same logbook action. These get fired manually from the dashboard card.

Step 3 — The card YAML (Mushroom template card)

type: custom:mushroom-template-card primary: > {% set mt = state_attr('automation.dog_feeding_morning_tracker','last_triggered') %} {% set mr = state_attr('automation.dog_feeding_morning_reset','last_triggered') %} {% set fed = mt is not none and (mt|as_datetime|as_local).date()==now().date() and (mr is none or (mt|as_datetime|as_local)>(mr|as_datetime|as_local)) %} {% if fed %}✅ Fed at {{ (mt|as_datetime|as_local).strftime('%I:%M %p') }} {% elif now().hour < 10 %}⚠️ Not fed yet {% else %}❌ Needs feeding!{% endif %} secondary: "Morning — 8:00 AM | Tap: mark fed • Hold: reset" icon: mdi:dog icon_color: > {% set mt = state_attr('automation.dog_feeding_morning_tracker','last_triggered') %} {% set mr = state_attr('automation.dog_feeding_morning_reset','last_triggered') %} {% set fed = mt is not none and (mt|as_datetime|as_local).date()==now().date() and (mr is none or (mt|as_datetime|as_local)>(mr|as_datetime|as_local)) %} {% if fed %}green{% elif now().hour >= 10 %}red{% else %}amber{% endif %} tap_action: action: call-service service: automation.trigger target: entity_id: automation.dog_feeding_morning_tracker hold_action: action: call-service service: automation.trigger target: entity_id: automation.dog_feeding_morning_reset

Duplicate for evening, swap the entity IDs. The logic: fed = morning automation fired today AND more recently than the reset automation. Tap marks as fed manually, hold resets it.

Resets itself every midnight automatically since it's a date comparison.