Lovelace entity_picture stopped working in 0.87.0

Configuration Frontend
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I’m using entity_picture to include some custom png picture icons for various things. In my customize.yaml file, I added entries for things like:

sensor.rob_status:
    entity_picture: local/RobIcon.png

After upgrading to 0.87.0, this icon doesn’t show on anything defined in the customize.yaml file. If I switch back to the states UI, they all appear fine.

I have the file in .homeassistant/www and the permissions look correct (644) In fact, it shows up as a “picture” directive in known_devices.yaml using that icon. Adding the device to customize.yaml (and pointing to the same exact png file) causes it not to show any more. It seems like the lovelace UI has a problem with “entity_picture” directives set in customize.yaml starting at 0.87.0.

Is there a different way to set icon pictures in lovelace or is this a bug?

2

I do it like this:

            card:
              type: picture-entity
              entity: sensor.fire_danger_level_today
              show_name: false
              show_state: false
              image: /local/icons/firedanger/low-moderate.png
3

Except that it’s an entity under a card configuration. It looks like the “entities” tag just takes a list of entities. How would I configure an entity?

entities:
  - sensor.rob_status
  - sensor.presence

Where would I add the image directive for the entity?

4

The customizing with entity_picture works for me in LL too.
What if you add a leading ‘/’ to the path?

sensor.rob_status:
  entity_picture: /local/RobIcon.png
5

Interesting… I had the leading slash and removed it while testing this, but I just added the leading slash back and now it’s working.