Locally stored Background Image

[Dev_SS]

Is it possible to use a locally stored image as the dashboard background? Using a Fire HD 10. Been frustrated with google photos image being unable to connect after a 24 hr period (have been using the true image url – right click and image address)

Thanks in advance!

[josh]

You can use an image stored on your LAN. For example, if you have a NAS or an always on PC.

[Dev_SS]

Got it, thanks! So it has to be some sort of hyperlink even if it is “local”

Any idea how to solve the google photos problem? It works perfectly fine on PC Chrome browser, but the same dashboard on FKB on Fire HD 10, gives the “error loading image @&(&%(@#”

[James]

@Dev_SS, have you checked the thread below for using the image from Google Photo. I would guess the link you used previously was pointing to the image in the Google Photo “web page”, not to the image itself directly.

How To: Add photos to a dashboard

Host the photo online In order to display a photo in your SharpTools dashboard, it will need to be hosted online somewhere. You may already have your photo hosted online if you use a service like Google Photos! Note: In order to display the photo in SharpTools, it will have to be ‘publicly’ accessible. What you might be surprised to hear is that photos on services like Google Photos already use an unguessable public URL. These URLs are often upwards of 40 characters long meaning there’s billio…

[Dev_SS]

@James, thank you. I did go through that and the image (and dashboard) loads perfectly fine on Chrome on a PC. However, on FKB on HD 10, it gives that error. Has anything to do with the android web view issue with Fire OS?

[James]

Can you try this other approach by creating a share link of your image in Google Photo, open the link and copy the image address instead?

Adding logo to home page

@Devin_Morell, it depends on a couple things. 1.) is your logo photo is set to share via link. 2.) is your link actually to the image file, or just to the photo within google photo page. So you first need to “share” it in Google Photo. [image] Open the created share link, which will open the Google Photo page. Right click on the photo and “copy image address”. This will be the address for you to use as media source url. [image] Or another common way is to upload the image to https://imgur.…

[Dev_SS]

So this is what happens if I do share link and that url

• thumbnail in Media Resources: error
• Chrome: error
• FKB on Fire HD 10: error

This is what happens when using true image URL

• thumbnail in Medial Resources: looks good
• Chrome: looks good
• FKB on Fire HD 10: error

I am getting this working every time I load any dashboard on FKB on the tablet, not sure if it matters: “be aware of outdated android webview”

really appreciate all the help!

[eibyer]

So for the URL, use the local NAS ip address + path to the image?

I created simple python script to randomly copy one of the stored images I have in a folder to background.jpg every hour.

[James]

Depends on what NAS you have, I just did a quick test on my QNAP and I was able to get the photo url by selecting “Open” from my QNAP’s file manager.

The format is like this.
http://192.168.3.100:8080/cgi-bin/filemanager/utilRequest.cgi/Lucas.jpg?sid=XXXXX&func=get_viewer&source_path=%2FPhotos&source_file=Lucas.jpg

[eibyer]

Got it. I can make it work as long as it can access locally stored image. Thanks!