Reopening Why cant we set on/off icons in the UI (and entity_picture.....)

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

WTH, why cant we add an on And off icon in the UI

instead of only being able to set a single icon in the UI, it would be really very nice to be able to set an ‘on’ and ‘off’ icon. material design icons has a boatload of -off icons we could use, and, ofc besides a few device_classes these now are not used in core HA, nor Frontend. So, please add the option to set 2 icons for a single entity in the UI, or backend yaml. belastend: add on/off options for icon · Discussion #13700 · home-assistant/frontend · GitHub

because we still can not do so freely, besides the various device_classes.

Please add the UI option to

• set state dependent icons (start with on/off),
• add an entity_picture (for which we still need to use yaml customize…