Device_tracker entities images are not showing

Hi all,
I am a new user of 2 days in Home Assistant. Been watching a lot of tutorials and reading a lot of posts.

My problem is that device_tracker entities are showing as icons on my panels.
I am using Life360. I was using this tutorial

Everything is working correctly, I can see members, zones and tracking are working perfectly.
I have just a problem with the interface. The images that I have set up in Life360 are not coming through.

I tried to change image manually but when I go to the specific track entity I do not have the option to change entity_picture (Configuration > Customization > device_tracker entity edit.

Can someone please help me understand what I am doing wrong.
Thanks in advance.

Yes you do.

Select ‘pick an attribute to override’

Select ‘Other’

and type ‘entity_picture’ for the attribute and use a url for the value.

The picture from the Life360 app is only used the first time a member is seen (when it is added to known_devices.yaml.) If you change the picture in the Life360 app after that it will be ignored. This is a limitation of the device_tracker component level code. If you want the picture to be used you’ll have to remove the entry from known_devices.yaml and restart.

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Updating through the UI like he was trying will also work, it overwrites the device_tracker entity_picture.

Yep, understood, but not with the URL for the picture from the Life360 server, assuming he’d like to use it.

Ah yes, miss understood him.

Thanks, this solved my issue.

Hate to resurrect, but dont want to start a new thread.

I have done the customization entity_picture and i cant get it to show on the map…

I worked on my Work Van vehicle sensor
it is not working on my Truck device tracker