Picture for person component and Zone naming Enhancement for "home" and "not_home"

Feature Requests
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It would make sense to be able to set a picture for the person component as per devices

I know it can be acchieved using customize for a specific entity using entity_picture, but due to the origin of the component, it would make perfect sense to be able to assign an image directly to it as we can already do for known_devices entities.

Another thing I have noticed is that the zone names are correctly picked up:
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But once you are home or away it doesn’t show nice naming as the device tracker do
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To make it clear, device tracker say “Home” and “Away” while person say “home” and “not_home”.

The device tracker way is much “nicer” to see when integrated in Lovelace for visualization

2

Well, just installed 0.89.0 and the home/not_home Home/Away thing has actually been fixed.

A picture is still missing so I guess that FR remains :slight_smile:

3

You can set picture via customization section in your config file.

4

Yes, I know and I wrote it, this a FR because a picture should be part of a “person” entity as it is for the devices in known_devices

5

Did you have an example? In the config.yaml or customization.yaml?

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customize:
  person.andrey:
    entity_picture: local/images/andrey.jpg
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Awesome! Thanks!

8

Thanks for posting this. I had previously tried to customize Person.xxxxx to show an image by overriding the “icon:” setting which did nothing at all. Did not know about this “entity_picture” parameter. It works!

Seems like this FR isn’t needed, but a documentation update sure is.

9

Don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but this isn’t working!
Below entry in cusomize.yaml
Person.lance:
entity_picture: /local/Lance.jpg

I’m able to add the picture using /local/Lance.jpg in know devices for the tracker Ariela creates, but can’t add the picture to the tracker Owntracks creates

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My experience to help if anyone makes my own mistake:

First I added in customize.yaml

person.claudia:
  entity_picture: local/Claudia_192.jpg

without the slash before local. Weird behaviour, the icon showed correctly in the Person card but not in the presence badge.

Adding the slash, as in

person.claudia:
  entity_picture: /local/Claudia_192.jpg

the picture started showing also in the badge. A restart was needed to pick the change.

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You can also change this in the UI:

Configuration > Customization, select the entity, then click on “Pick an attribute to override”.
Select “Other”. In Attribute name, type “entity_picture” and in the Attribute value type “/local/image_name.png”. Don’t forget to click “SAVE”
Shouldn’t need to restart to see the change

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Yes, I made a mistake also that way… :grin: at first I put “entity_picture:” (with the semicolon) as Attribute name. Ended up with something like this (not working) in customize.yaml:

person.claudia:
  "entity_picture:": local/Claudia_192.jpg

That made the configuration editor go crazy (showing the configuration two times, not saving the changes), I had to edit the file directly.

13

Hi, I can not find the entity “person” in the list of customization page: I did the customization on the device_tracker entity.
Is it normal?