Issue with image reading using a Samba mount

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Hello,

I’ve mounted a network share to read images, I can see them well using the web page and navigating to:

Media → My Media → MEDIA → picture.png

However, I cannot add the image to an image card:

yaml

type: picture
image: /media/MEDIA/photo1.png

In SSH, I can see the folder here: ls /media/MEDIA/picture.png

I’m getting a 401 error when inspecting the page.

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Images are served from /config/www as /local.

You would have to set a symbolic link in /config/www pointing to your share. But, see in this topic that the HA devs won’t allow it to be included. You can see in the topic that it is doable, but you would have to make the change locally after each HASS update.
How to follow symlink in www folder - Configuration - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

Alternatively, I store the images I want to host in HA in /config/www/images.

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Now I’ve copied everything to /config/www/media/photos.

I can view the photos fine; I’d like to use WallPanel to display my photos.

With this configuration:

yaml

wallpanel:
  enabled: true
  hide_toolbar: true
  hide_sidebar: true
  fullscreen: false
  image_order: random
  display_time: 30
  image_url: /

It works, but it takes all the other photos. Which path should I use here to only use this directory: /config/www/media/photos?

Thank you

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/local/media/photos