Tile background images

Feature request. Tile background images.

Off state image shows appliance off
On state image shows on

Or

If not a separate image just display a coloured tile?

From 10 feet with my eyes I can see a tile colour but not the current state text

FYI you can do this with CSS. Check out this thread. You can use images hosted on the web as well. Post there if you need help.

Colors you can do via Settings (gear) > Templates >

The tiles should turn color, for example lights turn yellow when on, grey when off. Motion turns red when on, grey when off. Do yours not do that, or you want something different to happen?

You also can play with the font size, and tile size, to make them larger and more readable. Have you played with those settings?

I'm wondering.
Isn'it simpler to allow (@mike.maxwell ) a device variable value into the path of the pic ?

Like:
you upload in the local folder of your hub different pictures (picture.nameON.jpg & picture.nameOFF.jpg)

if switch1 is ON/OFF, display (in the background image link) http://[Hub.IP.address]/local/picture.name%switch1.value%.jpg

If switch is ON, the background picture would be http://[Hub.IP.address]/local/picture,nameON.jpg

If switch is OFF, the background picture would be http://[Hub.IP.address]/local/picture,nameOFF.jpg

Same for temperature (seems more tricky):
upload room.temperature20.jpg room.temperature22.jpg room.temperature24.jpg etc
and the background will change related to the temperature.
Ok, what display if the temperature is 21 (in my example) ?
A default pic ? I have no idea...

but it was my thought about this.

no app, no css mod, just a plain simple link. Is it possible to implement this ?

fan-STOPPED
geo-COOLING
geo-HEATING
geo-BLOWING

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That's almost exactly what I'm doing on my custom dashboard but managed in Javascript to switch out images named like you indicate (on/off, day/evening/night etc) :smile:

But for normal HE dashboards, maybe consider using the app I posted above? You can change dashboard backgrounds and tile images with RM using that.

I will for sure today.
But reading posts and being a fervent adept of the KISS concept, sometimes I have ideas. Not obligatory useful or easy or ... Just ideas flowing out of my mind. So, it was like that, an idea. :smiley:

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