Here is a very simple tutorial to change the picture of a room in MyHome page. Vera acts as a web server serving files from the /www file system root. we take advantage of this to get custom images for this page, this is how it works
BASIC
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Choose an image or take a picture
a. recommanded size 300x213 , edit your image if possible to make sure it is optimized size-wise -
Note down the ALTUI ID of the room image you want to change
a. Example 0-7 -
Name your image file R_0-7.jpg
a. Warning capital letter matters. Capital R , lower case .jpg -
Connect to your VERA via SSH
a. For example using winscp tool on windows
b. You must know your root password to connect to vera -
On your vera goto the folder /www
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Upload your image file there
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Verify that a direct web access to the image works by using the following url:
a. http://192.168.1.32/R_0-7.jpg -
From now on, the MyHome page should show this image for the room ID 0-7
Older documentation : http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,33308.msg299150.html#msg299150
Changing the picture location
if you want to change the picture locations on your vera, for instance, let’s say you want to store pictures under /www/localcdn. in that case :
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put your picture in /www/localcdn folder on vera
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set the “ImagePath” variable of your ALTUI device to be : “…/localcdn/”
a. note that the leading “…/” is necessary to make sure it works when used in Remote Access mode
b. the capital / lower cases letters matters !
c. verify that http://192.168.1.32/localcdn/R_0-7.jpg gives you the image
