How to assign entity picture, for use with tile card for example

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I’m trying to use the show_entity_picture in the tile card, and can’t quite figure out how to make it work. Please correct me if I’m misunderstanding, but it’s a simple way to show a local image instead of the icon in ha-icon, right?

I’m wondering how I assign the actual entity picture, and how I can then test if the assignment “took”, because I’m not seeing it on the card.

I have this in my configuration:

homeassistant:
  customize:
    cover.gluggatjold_bordstofa:
      entity_picture: /local/png/dining_room.png
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Turns out I had this ALMOST right, just had to change entity_picture to picture in the configuration. Leaving this for posterity.

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Hi Frank,

Looks like I’m attempting to do the same thing and am looking at your code above. This may be a silly question, but is the code you list above added to configuration.yaml, or some other config file? I tried something just the same with an entity within my configuration.yaml, and I couldn’t get it to work

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The simplest way - all code is added into configuration.yaml.
And one day this file becomes huge.
A feature called “splitting config” allows you to use many files - even in a tree-like folders structure.
Google in community about splitting.
Or use this.

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Thank you, that is a great suggestion and will plan to use “splitting configs”.

For just trying to get the entity picture to work for just one entity, I am still having problems that it isn’t working.

My code is:

customize:
fan.family_room_family_room_ceiling_fan:
picture: /local/Icons/family-room-ceiling-fan.psd

however when doing and turning on show entity picture on the tile, it isn’t changing. Would like to get this to work before I start splitting configs.

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First, you posted a code without using a proper formatting.
Next, compare with an example posted above - the “customize” option must be under “homeassistant”.

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Sorry I included the code improperly last time. here is the code that I used. it is right under homeassistant. I did use the above code as a reference with the exception of changing entity_picture to picture. even though I do this, when I turn on the ‘Show entity picture’ option in the appearance portion of the tile card, the picture/icon doesn’t change``

homeassistant:
  customize:
    fan.family_room_family_room_ceiling_fan:
      picture: /media/local/family-room-ceiling-fan.png
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The attribute’s name is “entity_picture”.