How do I assign a device tracker photo?

Configuration
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I’m using the Owntracks integration to track devices. The documentation states that the known_devices.yaml file is deprecated and not used by the Owntracks integration anymore. However, I havent found any information describing what I’m supposed to use instead?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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This thread contains a working solution:

I had to “re-enable” the old way so I could get the required data for the icon, but it worked after that was done.

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Now you link it all to the ‘person’ entity from ‘Configuration’ - > ‘Users’
Choose under the user what entities are used to track this person.

Then, in customize.yaml add (as for me):

person.stigh:
  entity_picture: /local/TheStigh.jpg
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Thank you. Where does /local/ point to though?

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root-config-directory/www

The ‘www’ directory is not part of the default installation and you will have to make it yourself.
For the system, the path to ‘www’ is

local/

Did it make sense ?

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Makes perfect sense. Thanks.

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I added the appropriate entry to customize.yaml but the profile photo when I log in to HA still shows the placeholder letter. Is it possible to change this as well? The map picture is still unchanged too. (I’ve restarted HA)

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I would need to see some code examples before I can help further, to many unknown factors here :slight_smile:

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Sure, but not entirely certain how much code there is to share.

customize.yaml:

person.dave:
  entity_picture: /local/dave.jpg # image shows up when accessed through the URL
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ah, remove the first forward slash so it becomes ‘local/dave.jpg’

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No difference.

I also tried assigning it to the device tracker:

device_tracker.dave_phone:
  entity_picture: /local/dave.jpg

a 200x200 jpg should work, right?

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still, you have one forward slash too much

Here is part of my entities-card:

              - type: entities
                show_header_toggle: false
                entities:
                  - entity: person.stigh
                  - type: divider
                  - entity: sensor.battery_stigh_huawei

Then I have assigned my ‘device_tracker.stigh_huawei’ (from owntracks) to me as person (Configuration->Persons).

In customize.yaml I put the

entity_picture: local/TheStigh.jpg
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leading slash or not doesnt seem to make any difference for me.

I havent manually configured the entities card. I just assigned the tracker to the “person” entity in the web interface.

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Where do you expect the image to appear then?

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If you just created the www folder you have to restart ha for it to be seen.

Why not just use the front end to assign the image?

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Is doing it through the front end any different than through the customize.yaml file?

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Just summarizing what worked for me (Thanks to @TheStigh for the customize.yaml part)

In customize.yaml the path I used is what was originally in the known_devices.yaml:

person.angelo:
  entity_picture: /local/avatar_person1.jpg

In configuration.yaml

person: !include_dir_merge_list persons/

In my persons directory I have:

- name: Angelo
  id: angelo
  user_id: my_user_id
  device_trackers:
    - device_tracker.axon7

In my www directory i have a file with the name of avatar_person1.jpg

I no longer have a known_devices.yaml anymore as I am gpslogger. I completely removed the file and was getting the blank avatar until I added the customize.yaml entry.

In case this helps, because I had tried adding the same person in yaml and then in the UI, I had two entries for “Angelo” so the 2nd one (the one actually tied to my device) was showing up as angelo_2. I removed the entries from entity config file and then everything started working as expected.

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So the problem on my end was that I was missing the following in my configuration.yaml:

homeassistant:
  customize: !include customize.yaml

Works fine now. Even with a leading path slash :wink:

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Hi
what you mean “person directory” ?
its same folder ? or yaml file ?

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I have my config split up where i have a directory called “persons” in my .homeassistant directory. In this directory i have two yaml files…one for me and one for my wife. You could just put it in your configuration.yaml if you prefer like this:

person:
  - name: Angelo
    id: angelo
    user_id: my user guid
    device_trackers:
      - device_tracker.axon_7
      - device_tracker.angelo_phone_wifi
  - name: Sara
    id: sara
    user_id: wife's user guid
    device_trackers:
      - device_tracker.galaxy_s9
      - device_tracker.sara_phone_wifi