# \[FeatureRequest\] Select you own icon for a device **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Tags:** featurerequest\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-select-you-own-icon-for-a-device/41473 "2021-01-20T09:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 72
**Author:** ![RonnyW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ronnyw/32/10879_2.png) [@RonnyW](https://community.homey.app/u/RonnyW)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-select-you-own-icon-for-a-device/41473/72 "2024-07-04T14:17:09Z")
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](http://materialdesignicons.com) (or [https://pictogrammers.com](https://pictogrammers.com) now). - So Homey could add a default pair view for device icon selection using [https://pictogrammers.com](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](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/f/6ffee41c74f9e75fb3c8a219e4263ca86eb5e745.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-select-you-own-icon-for-a-device/41473)._