Until today I didn't realize you could use animated gif's as dashboard backgrounds. Nifty!

I must be doing something dumb. I put the URL to the animated gif into the dashboard background... and nothing :-). Any ideas?

cannot link to that site, you need to download and host via file manager or somewhere else. for local file manager you can use http://YOU_HUB_IP/local/purplemountains.gif

Make sure it’s going to the gif itself not to the page or a shorturl

[image] TechMedX: I use some of these. Wow.. Those are nice

I like that they are not too over the top (most anyway). Which is good. After all it should be a "background", and not so distracting it becomes the foreground.

These files come over as .webp Any tricks to importing these via the HE file manager as GIF files?

Perfect! I was using iPad (Chrome) which didn't support save-as, so I moved to my PC, saved the gif files, imported them to HE via Settings->File Manager, and finally added the local URL to the dashboard. The difference was well worth the effort! Thank you!

[image] hmspain: I was using iPad (Chrome) which didn't support save-as, so I moved to my PC, I HIGHLY recommend doing dash edits on a computer, not iPad. However if one were chilling, looing at living stills..... Long press the image (keep your finger on the image for 2-3 seconds). When the…

Wow neato! Animated GIFs as Dashboard backgrounds!

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