animations:

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The animations: section of your config is where you list the reusable "named" animations.

Note that while you can add animations in both the machine-wide and a mode-specific config, the list of animations is global, meaning that any animation is available in any mode, and you can't have two different animations with the same name.

For example:

animations:
  fade_in:
    property: opacity
    value: 1
    duration: 1s
  fade_out:
    property: opacity
    value: 0
    duration: 1s

The above example defines animations named fade_in and fade_out that you can use, by name, in any widget or widget_player config where you would ordinarily define your own animations.

How to animate display widgets

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