[FeatureRequest] Select you own icon for a device

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Hi,
some technical details about device icons and how our apps are using it (or bypass :-)):

  • Fixed icon: You add a svg file to your app and define the file path in your driver JSON file.
    Then the device is showing this icon (and only this).

  • The indivudual upload is done in this way:
    The app offers an upload view.
    If selected, a user svg file is uploaded into the /userdata/ folder of the app named unique for the device.
    The device definition gets this file path&name on pairing. So the device loads the uploaded file.
    In such a file is replaced, simple the file is replaced with another one. It’s not possible to change the device icon path afterwards

  • The HA Comminuty app has a MaterialDesignIcon access. Harrie (MqttHub) allowed me to copy from his app. It uses a font file including icons to show the list. After selecting an icon, it’s downloaded from materialdesignicons.com (or https://pictogrammers.com now).

  • So Homey could add a default pair view for device icon selection using https://pictogrammers.com like HomeAssistant is doing

  • Or as small solution: The device definition (device JSON) could hold an array of svg’s and the device settings could allow the selection of one of them. I already suggested this on Slack to Emile.
    grafik

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