Unable to show an icon for a particular calendar

[swampylee]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

I would ideally like to display an entity_picture next to the title of a calendar event card but in lieu of this option I tried to just use a regular icon. However, whenever I try and set an icon through the UI or via yaml nothing changes. I've use the format mdi:icon but nothing changes. As I said, I'd ideally like to be able to display any graphic using entity_picture customisation but would settle for just being able to display an icon. Maybe I'm doing something wrong........

Awesome card by the way, thanks for all your work on it.

Expected behaviour

As above

Steps To Reproduce

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Mode

Event (default)

Card Version

7.5.0

Home Assistant Version

2023.7.2

Configuration

type: custom:atomic-calendar-revive
name: Calendar Card
enableModeChange: true
entities:
  - entity: calendar.holidays_in_united_kingdom
    name: Holidays in united kingdom
    icon: mdi:ab-testing
    maxDaysToShow: 30

Relevant log output

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Code of Conduct

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Hello @swampylee, thank you for your interest in our work!
If this is a bug report, please provide your configuration and any screenshots that would assist troubleshooting, otherwise we can not help you.

[marksie1988]

Set the option

showCalendarName: true

Only MDI icons are supported.

[swampylee]

Hi Steven, I tried that with this code (icon: in either position) and I still don’t get any mdi icons only a generic calendar icon.  What I’m after is an image to be shown in the title of the card somewhere to identify what the calendar is. So for a list of sporting events the football team’s motif for example. If that’s just not possible I’ll pop in a feature request perhaps. Thanks for getting back to me.

[marksie1988]

Hi Steven, I tried that with this code (icon: in either position) and I still don’t get any mdi icons only a generic calendar icon. What I’m after is an image to be shown in the title of the card somewhere to identify what the calendar is. So for a list of sporting events the football team’s motif for example. If that’s just not possible I’ll pop in a feature request perhaps. Thanks for getting back to me.

That's not a valid MDI icon, please see this link for all valid icons. https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/

[swampylee]

Hi Steven, I tried that with this code (icon: in either position) and I still don’t get any mdi icons only a generic calendar icon. What I’m after is an image to be shown in the title of the card somewhere to identify what the calendar is. So for a list of sporting events the football team’s motif for example. If that’s just not possible I’ll pop in a feature request perhaps. Thanks for getting back to me.

That's not a valid MDI icon, please see this link for all valid icons. https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/

It is, it's the first one on their list - I picked that on purpose.

[marksie1988]

Actually yes you are right, I've just tested and mine is also showing the default icon instead of the correct one. I'll have to look into this bug.

[swampylee]

Actually yes you are right, I've just tested and mine is also showing the default icon instead of the correct one. I'll have to look into this bug.

Thanks!

[marksie1988]

I have done more testing today and the icons are showing as expected, are you still seeing issues here?

[swampylee]

I have done more testing today and the icons are showing as expected, are you still seeing issues here?

Still appears to be an issue for me.

[marksie1988]

type: custom:atomic-calendar-revive
name: Calendar Card
enableModeChange: true
entities:
  - entity: calendar.holidays_in_united_kingdom
    name: Holidays in united kingdom
    icon: mdi:ab-testing
    maxDaysToShow: 30
showEventIcon: true

I think I may need to spend some time simplifying some of the options and updating the docs for clarity as im not sure that was very clear on the docs.

[swampylee]

type: custom:atomic-calendar-revive
name: Calendar Card
enableModeChange: true
entities:
  - entity: calendar.holidays_in_united_kingdom
    name: Holidays in united kingdom
    icon: mdi:ab-testing
    maxDaysToShow: 30
showEventIcon: true

I think I may need to spend some time simplifying some of the options and updating the docs for clarity as im not sure that was very clear on the docs.

Thank you, that resolved it and sorry I missed that setting.

As an aside, and as per my original comment, it would be great if we could use an entity_picture as part of the card title but I'll create an enhancement request for that (if I haven't already).

Thanks for your help and for the awesome card.

[snigehere]

thanks for documenting this - I had the same issue and was able to solve it by adding showEventIcon: true as detailed here