Hello everyone!
I’m using the clear_sky skin with a photo as a background but I would love to have an automatic rotation in it by providing a list of URL’s to photos and it would change every day or week or so? Is this possible?
Looking forward to hearing from you!
JeBy
it is possible.
you need to create a javascript that does that and include that script in the head (see upper part variables.yaml)
i think 1 of the included skins has something like that, so you might want to take a look at it.
Oh yeah why didn’t I think of that? 
Javascript rules! I’ll give it a go 
Do you think I can then link the action “change background” to a button on my dashboard if I want to change it manually?
Thanks a lot for the help Rene!
Also, I installed my skins through git but now when I try to add any of my own images in the img folder like where the original background image ‘background_1.jpg’ was, the file name turns up red and I can’t seem to link to them in the css? I’m using HASS Configurator to manage my files btw.
i never worked with hass configurator.
i can only tell you where your files should be and what to do with it.
in your configuration directory (where appdaemon.yaml is) you need to have a directory custom_css
in that directory you make a subdir for each skin.
those subdirs need to have 2 files, variables,yaml and dashboards.css
those files can be manipulated.
a button can be created with javascript, but not inside the dashboard (on the side top or bottom is possible)
in theory you could create a custom widget to change the background, but there is no existing 1 for that.
Actually, the latest AppDaemon beta included a JavaScript widget that should let you do exactly that - it lets you run an arbitrary javascript command when it is pressed. I can’t check now but I think it is in beta3, if not it will be in beta4.
its in the docs, so i guess the running version.
i didnt notice that one, but probably because of my english, i had/have no idea what to think by “arbitary javascript command”
i think we need to think about a little more explenation in the docs there. 