Feature Request: Allow Dashboard Background Photo to be changed via automation

[jeffehobbs]

It would be a lot of fun to be able to change the background photo(s) of your dashboard based on a Home Assistant automation; that way the image could change based on time, or day, or even weather.

It would also be a tremendously "home assistant-y" way to implement this, taking advantage of the ways that users already know how to configure and build automations within Home Assistant already.

[ildar170975]

A proper FR would be “allow using an image entity to define background”.

[jeffehobbs]

This is a good idea, but more prescriptive than I feel like being.

[ildar170975]

Automations can call services. There is no such a service - “set background”. But a possibility to get a background from an entity (which can have a templated value) would definitely solve your request. Note that currently you already can solve it by card-mod.

[Dizzybacon]

I'm using card-mod to set the background using a templated value, which works fine, but it would be much better with the new background functionality on Sections to be able to use a templated value directly in there.