Gravatar for device trackers not possible anymore?

[jeppper]

I used gravatars for pictures in the old known_devices. Is this not possible now after known devices aren´t used anymore after 0.94?
Using “gravatar: email” in customize.yaml does not work.

[Adorem (aka Christophe)]

Same question here. Someone have a solution?

[nicknick (Nicholas Booth)]

I have the same question. Have tried adding to customize.yaml, and “name: <custom name>” works, but as indicated, I confirm that it doesn’t take any notice of gravatar: <e-mail>. This means that an icon consisting only of an intial letter shows up in the map display, and a generic person icon shows up for an device entity in a glance card in Lovelace.

[Adorem (aka Christophe)]

Following this thread I success to get it working:

Owntracks as a Person tracker not working

I did follow the instructions and I too have had success with local pictures, just double checked now and realized that gravatar: actually had its own reference in known_devices.yaml and was not used after picture:, sorry about that, maybe that’s the reason edit: and I just have found out that using entity_picture and full path (link) to gravatar works, known_devices.yaml uses short syntax gravatar: email.address only

And especially this part:

and I just have found out that using entity_picture and full path (link) to gravatar works

I have for the moment not access to my config but tell me if you do not success I will give you more details.

[Xilt]

Assuming that your known_devices.yaml file is still in place you can find the full path to the gravatar path using your GUI. Navigate to Configuration - Customization and find the entity which was referenced in know_devices.yaml as the device tracker. Then locate entity_picture(JSON formated) which shows full path to gravatar.

[jeppper]

This works! thanks

customize.yaml

entity_picture: http://gravatar.com/avatar/md5 hash (encoded value of email adress)

[nicknick (Nicholas Booth)]

This also worked for me. Many thanks.