How to change an icon of an entity to a pic?

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Hi,
how can I change an icon of an entity to my own pic and not from mdi website?
for example to change the persons icon to their real photo

Thanks

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Perhaps it depends on what entity it is?
For sensors you could use template sensor as a wrapper.

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With customizing

person.xxx:
  entity_picture: /local/pictures/people/xxx.png

or

switch.xxx:
  entity_picture: /local/pictures/xxx.png
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where is that local folder?
how to transfer the pic to the local folder?

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I think it depends on what installation you have. Mine is in /config/www.

Same question. I use Samba add-on.

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so I have add the pic to: home_assistance/config/www/local/pictures/people/barak.png

and add the below row to the State attributes
entity_picture: /local/pictures/people/barak.png

and still the person entity is blanked, what I’m doing wrong?

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anyone can help?

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“/local” is mapped to config/www

If you created a local folder under www, it would be:
entity_picture: /local/local/pictures/people/barak.png

Most would not create another local folder under www. Instead, they would have:
/config/www/pictures/people/barak.png

and would reference it like:
entity_picture: /local/pictures/people/barak.png

… because /local/ points to the config/www folder.

Make sense?

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thanks a lot, I took your advice, now its working

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the second reply was posted to this topic 1 day ago… :wink:

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sorry but I didn’t understand it as solution

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any chance someone knows why the pic is rotated ?Screen Shot 2020-02-24 at 22.40.33

the original photo is straight

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I don’t know :wink:

and if you rotate it 90 degrees clockwise and upload to /www/? :wink:

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tried it but still it didn’t work

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do you mean that no matter what you upload its orientation is the same?
have you refreshed your screen/cleared cache/restarted HA?

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One option is to add a unique version to the image file name after every rotation change you try. It will force the frontend to update. I use the date and time (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS).

Ex. /config/www/pictures/people/barak_v20200224180600.png

Sometimes caching issues can be hard to overcome even with forced page reloads in a browser.

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since upgrading to 0.106 the picture is blanked
I have this in the customize.yaml

person.barak:
  entity_picture: local/pictures/people/barak.jpg
person.almog:
  entity_picture: local/pictures/people/barak.jpg

and this in the configuration.yaml

homeassistant:
  customize: !include customize.yaml

any help please

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a) roll back
b) search if there is an open issue on Github regarding your situation
c) open a new issue on Github if not b

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Add / on front
entity_picture: /local/pictures/people/barak.jpg