Is there a way to get the old Logo back?

Sorry to say that, but the new logo with just the 3 soldering points looks ugly, boring, blunt and primitive.
Quite the oposite of what HA is.

So is there a way to revert back to the old buitifull filigran logo with the tree of soldering points?
That would be in the App, on the Dashboard essentialy every place where the logo is used.

Any ideas?

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@nickrout whats the point of your post?
Care to elaborate?

I believe nickrout’s point is that Home Assistant is an open-source project so you’re free to inspect its source code and modify it to meet your needs.

The first challenge is to find where is the thing you want to modify and then the second challenge is modifying it on your instance of Home Assistant.

For example, Home Assistant’s logo would be part of the UI so that’s in the frontend repository. The logo was changed recently so that helps us to find it because there are recent notes indicating its modification. I found this:

The logo is in SVG format and you would have to replace it with the older logo’s SVG.

Beyond that, someone else will have to help you because I have no experience with altering frontend code on one’s instance of Home Assistant. What I do know is that any code modifications are temporary because they’re in a docker container (3 out of 4 installation methods employ docker); the container is replaced by the next full or patch release (thereby eliminating your modifications).

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@123 has hit the nail on the head.

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So in essence you are suggesting, that I create, maintain and develop my own fork of HA just because the DevTeam neglected to give the users a choice about the logo and insted have seen fit to force everybody to look at that shity new logo that looks like it was created by a 10 year old?

Thank you very much…
But you provided an answer nevertheless.

I save my rant about the fact that a new logo made it top of the list for changes, while so many functional deficits and quality of life stuff is still missing is pretty telling for another time.

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I’m not a fan of the new logo either. Much preferred the older one so it’s not just you.

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I thought you were asking a legitimate question but I now see it was just an excuse to post another rant about the logo and to insult the person who created it.

Obviously I wasted my time attempting to help you but I won’t make that mistake again.

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Leaving aside the relative merits of the new logo, I’ve found that the best way to make this kind of change is to create a script which makes the desired tweak. Then you just have to run that script again after each update. I haven’t actually found a reason to do this with HA yet, but I have with other systems I’ve used over the years.

I agree.

I have a script I run after every version upgrade that modifies the code in the Homekit Device integration.

The integration reports illuminance values with several decimal places (i.e. far more resolution than is needed for practical purposes) thereby allowing devices to report illuminance values far too frequently. The script tweaks the code to round the illuminance value to the nearest integer.

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There is already a thread for logo opinions. Not another please!

Yeah being able to change it would be great, so would world peace and an end to climate change.

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How can I change the HA Logo from a Script?
Is there a Service that can be called?

That’s going to be operating system dependent. I haven’t done this yet with HA so I’m not a good one to ask.

For the record, I do see your point about the value of spending time changing icons when there’s so many other improvements and fixes which users are actually asking for. I’ll leave it there. It’s all been said before.

So 1 “designer” figuring out and present a handful of suggestions, which eventually lead to “implementing(change the Icon)” Deleted old, replace new, is somehow something that takes away focus, resources from other “Issues” ?

It’s like comparing a falling leave from a tree , with Sudden Fall and Winter :slight_smile:

PS: Yes i also like the “old” with many “branches” , even thou it do look “messy” as a small icon, AND most places i do see a HA-Brand-Icon, is on my browser-tab (Tiny), i think there is only 2, in the installation,1 big in the “About” Section( DONT go there ! :slight_smile: ), and 1 small, somehere, forgot where … well 1 flashing by , in a split second, if i clear the browser-cache and refresh(automatic-login)

My Windows-Desktop icon(still the same, with brims and Chimney) easy to replace with anything one wants to see on ones Desktop, same goes for the Icon In Firefox-Home/new-tab-link

Well, actually, yes. I do see your point; that it’s possible to do more than one thing at a time, and putting some effort into design is not a bad thing. But hiring someone to pretty up the UI (form) over hiring someone to work the backlog of FRs (function) is pretty clearly prioritizing resources in a very specific way.

Luckily, it’s not my call, and HA is still the best option available.

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Yes, i think i know what you mean, but i wont go into such a discussion, nothing much i/we can do about that, just hope that “still the best option” will stick and last forever

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Back to the question, does anyone know how the frontend is delivered to the system. I am guessing it must be part of the core image. But where? I can’t find it.

************************************/hass_frontend /static/icons/favicon.icu
:slight_smile: maybe

… or did you mean where it is in GitHub?

The favicon is generally what you see on the url line of your browser. I doubt that it is what you see anywhere else. (And the favicon is easily changeable by this custom component GitHub - thomasloven/hass-favicon: 🔹 Change the favicon of your Home Assistant instance)

The logo is here in github.

The legacy logo is also there (as you can see), but how to get it displayed within HA instead of the new one I do not know. I last designed a web page when it was all in html. ts is beyond me.

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I know, but you, or most people( complaining/request to revert) haven’t specified which HA-Logo you want to change/revert.

As i see it there are the about 3/4
1. the ones in the Browser-Tab(url) ( it’s also here in the forum-tab( And header) btw, surely not the same place to revert)
2. in Settigs/devices/Integration(supervisor)
3. In the About-Section
4. logon-screen

ONLY the first one is what people see most often, every time they are here in the forum, or open their HA-Instance ( some “blueish” flashing by, if one credentials are saved on the device )

Yes i know where the logo are in github, also know/have seen that custom componenet, and are aware of APP’s for Android, if one likes to change App-logos/icons

PS: it’s either an .ico or .svg , An icon/image ( usually found in an/the “icons or image-folder” in the underlying website/webapp’s file-structor . so same approach can be used to locate these ( find .ico "or " svg or png ) …

btw, did you try to “find” and copy/paste the path/icon/image in your result, one by one ( into your browser ) ?

PS2: somehow i doubt that a favicon.png i.e 1024x1024 or 512x512 is aimed for “browser-tabs” :wink: , thou ofcause i also don’t know if it’s the “actual images” or various “references” in the code people would like to fiddle with, and i haven’t tried to “replace” neither.