Implementing Image Caching for brands.home-assistant.io

[steverep (Steve Repsher)]

FYI, there is a historical discussion on this topic from Month of "What the heck?!" (2020)

WTH - Why are brand icons a cloud dependency?

The fact that the brand icons are hosted on a different server has a few issues: It breaks offline use It breaks due to heuristics in privacy-focussed add-ons such as Privacy Badger It’s an external dependency It enables the collection of anonymous usage statistics with no way to opt-out I’d propose to either include all icons in each HA install or provide another frontend: option which allows the user to specify a custom icon server base URL. Edit: Rephrased the issue since including all ic…