Hello
Somehow I got a background picture onto the default Lovelace Dashboard (Overview) and I want to remove it and revert to the default or even change it. I can’t figure out how to do this? I thought I’d be able to change it somewhere in “Settings” but I can’t find it. Could some one point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.
Hi Mcoulton,
As far as I know you must have tweaked the background via theme edits in your HA.
Have a look at this thread, hope this help :
Hello
I looked at the thread and it doesn’t really make any sense to me. I thought by now there would be a way via the GUI to change the background image of the “Overview” dashboard and all the tabs that are added. Is this not the case?
Hi Michael, if you edit your dashboard and then from the 3 dots at the same spot, choose 'Raw configuration editor" you get the full code for your dashboard.
In there you will find (using CTRL+F) a background, something in the lines of
background:
image: /api/image/serve/...
If you remove those 2 lines completely, the background should be gone.
For security, copy the whole contents before making a change to a txt file
Hi Nick. Thanks for jumping in to help me out. Unfortunately I tried the CTRL + F search and nothing comes up for a search on "“background” or “Background”.
Make sure your cursor is at the top and none of the options of the search function are enabled.
You could check manually if it exists.
Otherwise, check your configuration.yaml file.
Don’t you remember how you added that background?
Hello Nick
Unfortunately I don’t remember how I added the background. I did check both the raw configuration file for the “Overview” and the configuration.yaml file. I thought at one time there was something called “themes” that could be accessed from the settings file, but I don’t see it now.
Are you using the vanilla theme ? You can click on your avatar on bottom left of your home assistant GUI et check what theme you’re using.
My guess is that the background img might be setted by your theme and not your dashboard.
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You are using the Home Assistant theme.
What happens if you set it to ‘Use default theme’?
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Hello
If I change the theme, then the cards change in the Overview Dashboard, however the background image remains the same - one of a jelly fish. I’ve included a screen shot.
Using a grep command , find in which file this jpg is mentioned.
What happens when you just set another picture as background?
Hello. not sure how to use the “grep” command. ChatGPT suggests
sudo grep -r “.jpg” /
That command got rejected in terminal, so I removed the “sudo” part and got streams of lines with permission denied. Don’t know what the next steps would be. Thanks for putting fourth a suggestion.
Hi Nick.
“What happens when you just set another picture as background?” That’s the issue - I don’t remember how to set another picture as the background. Can you advise? Thanks for the help.
Do you have that same background on ALL your views from the Overview & Mobile dashboard?
Nope. Only the “Overview” dashboard has this view. The mobile one is black.
Overview Dashboard.
Mobile Dashboard
But ALL the views from the Overview dashboard?
Sorry - I didn’t understand the question. No… only the home tab has the jelly fish background; there rest don’t.
Hope this helps.
If you edit that view you can set a background picture.