Picture not updating

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi guys, have been searching the forum over and out but can still not understand why my picture is not updating.

I’m utilizing lovelace and have put my photo within /config/www/images/pic.jpg and it displays correct, so the path is working and it displays the photo correct. However I have replaced the pic.jpg with another photo and the old one is still displayed…even tried to removed the pic.jpg and it displays a gray area so the pic is removed but when adding the new photo again it displays the old one…
I have restarted the hass and restarted my pi with the power plug several times.

- type: picture-entity
  show_name: false
  image: /local/images/pic.jpg

Is there any cache or something else I can delete?

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Try renaming your pic to pic_1 and point it to that. Yes it is a cache issue.

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I’m asing the same problem here, also restarted and rebooted Hassio and the Pi. So I already was thinking this was a cache problem.

Even cleared the cache on my Chrome browser :stuck_out_tongue:

But isn’t there a workaround, instead of keeping to rename the files? Isn’t there a possibility to clear or reload the cache in Hassio?

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I found this post while having the same problem… in the end I solved it by combining a picture with with a camera entity.

In configuration.yaml:

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: my_image
    still_image_url: "http://<my_has_ip>:8123/local/<image_name>.jpg"
    verify_ssl: false

and in lovelace:

  - type: picture-entity
    entity: camera.my_image
    camera_image: camera.my_image
    show_state: true
    show_name: false
    aspect_ratio: '1.0'
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…2 years later I felt on this thread. I was trying to get my picture-entity (and -glance. I suppose) updated. The method in the last message, with the trick of setting the picture as a camera would work. It work, but then I could not use state_image parameter to change the picture in realtime depending on state of an enity :frowning:

Well, finally after some tests I have the perfect configurarion. Picture updated, realtime and using different states.

Applying the camera trick when also changing image by state_image, doesn’t work for me. So, here is my recipe: using the camera trick, but change picture using Ian Richardson’s great ‘config-template-card’ here: GitHub - iantrich/config-template-card: 📝 Templatable Lovelace Configurations

Sample of use:

ONE CAMERA FOR EACH PICTURE in my cameras.yaml

- platform: generic
  name: camara_sosa_1mes
  still_image_url: "http://<homeassistant_IP>:<port>/local/materias_primas/sosa_1mes.png"
  verify_ssl: false

- platform: generic
  name: camara_sosa_3meses
  still_image_url: "http://<homeassistant_IP>:<port>/local/materias_primas/sosa_3meses.png"
  verify_ssl: false
  
  [etc]

IN MY INPUT_SELECTS.YAML

grafica_sosa:
  name: SOSA
  options:
    - 1mes
    - 3meses
    - 6meses
    - 1year
    - 2years
    - 5years
    - 10years
  initial: 3meses
  icon: mdi:finance

(the input_select states match the end of each image filename used in cameras)

Finally the really short and simple card config:
CARD in lovelace (using Ian’s config-template-card):

type: custom:config-template-card
entities:
  - input_select.grafica_sosa
card:
  entity: input_select.grafica_sosa
  camera_image: ${'camera.camara_sosa_'+states['input_select.grafica_sosa'].state}
  show_name: false
  show_state: false
  type: picture-entity

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…guess what. It updates perfectly, real time, without any cached images problem and changing picture when changing the input_select states :wink:

Hope it helps somebody!.
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Shame the image property doesn’t support injecting a little dynamic querystring.

image: /local/images/pic.jpg?ts={{ now().strftime('%H%M%d') }}

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Hi,

I had the same problem … the cache … I know it is an old post but as i found it at the end of 2023 maybe others will do also and it can help them also.

I have added this “?v={{now().timestamp()|int }}” at the end of the path in order to force the picture version … and instantly this worked. See below my example:

  • type: horizontal-stack
    cards:
    • type: picture
      image: /local/CCTV_Snapshots/009.jpg?v={{now().timestamp()|int }}
    • type: picture
      image: /local/CCTV_Snapshots/010.jpg?v={{now().timestamp()|int }}
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Same issue - but your fix works brilliantly. Thanks!

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