Week View — Glanceable Weekly Calendar

Week view in Daylight Calendar Card shows each day of the week as a column with stacked events — a clean, glanceable layout for family dashboards and wall tablets.

Week view shows each day of the week as its own column, with that day’s events stacked beneath the date. It is designed for quick scanning rather than minute-by-minute planning: you see what is happening on each day at a glance, without an hourly grid.

For a full hourly grid with event blocks positioned by their start and end times, use the Schedule view instead.

Activating Week View

Set default_view to week-compact (or its shorthand week) in your card configuration:

type: custom:daylight-calendar-card
default_view: week-compact
entities:
  - calendar.family

Both week and week-compact refer to the same view. The card normalizes week to week-compact internally.

When to use Week Compact

Week Compact is the right choice when you want:

• Family wall dashboards that need to be readable from across the room.
• A weekly overview without the visual weight of a time-grid.
• Narrow dashboard columns or sidebar placements where a full timed grid wouldn’t fit.
• Quick weekly planning — see what each day looks like without zooming into hours.

Configuration Options

week_days · array · default: "[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]"

Used by Week and Schedule. Ignored in those views when their rolling_days_* option is set.

An array of day numbers controlling which days appear as columns. Days are numbered 0 (Sunday) through 6 (Saturday). Pass [1,2,3,4,5] to show Monday through Friday only, making each column wider and easier to read on smaller screens.

first_day_of_week · number · default: "0"

Used by Month, Week, and Schedule. In Week Compact and Schedule, only affects normal week mode — it is ignored in rolling-days mode.

The day number (0–6) that anchors the left edge of the week. Set to 1 to start each week on Monday.

rolling_days_week_compact

Used by Week only.

By default Week Compact snaps to full calendar weeks. Set rolling_days_week_compact to a positive integer to switch to a rolling window of that many days starting from today, rather than aligning to week boundaries. When set, week_days and first_day_of_week are ignored in this view.

shorten_event_times · boolean · default: "false"

Used by Month, Week, Schedule, and Agenda.

When true, event time labels are abbreviated — for example 10 AM instead of 10:00 AM — saving horizontal space in narrow columns.

show_event_location · boolean · default: "false"

Used by Week, Schedule, and Agenda. Also applies to Month only when show_all_details_month is enabled (it does not affect normal Month event bubbles).

When true, the location field of each event is displayed on a second line below the event title.

use_short_location · boolean · default: "false"

Used by Week, Schedule, and Agenda. Also applies to Month only when show_all_details_month is enabled. Has no visible effect unless show_event_location is also enabled.

Truncates long location strings to a shorter form so they don’t push event blocks taller.

use_24hr_schedule · boolean · default: "false"

Used by Month, Week, Schedule, and Agenda. Despite the name, it is used by the shared event-time formatter, not only the Schedule view.

When true, event times use 24-hour format (e.g. 14:00) instead of 12-hour format with AM/PM.

hide_times_for_calendars · array

Used by Month, Week, Schedule, and Agenda.

An array of calendar entity IDs whose events should not display time labels. Useful for all-day-style calendars where exact times are noise.

past_event_mode · string · default: "none"

Used by Month, Week, Schedule, and Agenda. Controls how events that have already ended are handled across the card. Accepted values:

• none — past events look identical to upcoming events (default).
• muted — past events render at reduced opacity.
• hide — past events are not rendered.

Timed-grid options like week_start_hour, week_end_hour, lock_schedule_hours, and show_current_time_bar belong to the Schedule view. They do not apply here because Week Compact does not render an hourly grid.

Example Configuration

A Monday-to-Friday compact week with shortened event times — useful for a narrow sidebar card:

type: custom:daylight-calendar-card
default_view: week-compact
entities:
  - calendar.family
  - calendar.work
week_days: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
shorten_event_times: true

Tips

Removing weekend columns with week_days: [1,2,3,4,5] makes each weekday column noticeably wider. On a narrow sidebar card this can be the difference between readable event titles and truncated text.

Want a moving “today + next few days” view instead of a fixed calendar week? Set rolling_days_week_compact: 6 to show today plus the next six days.