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I would like to start using floorplans/maps with various device actions on them. This means I need locally stored images, that can be seen over the network.
I managed to upload images to HA, but as they need to be accessed with a token, I either need to refresh the token every day (no), or have an image with a long-lived token (also not a good idea).

How have other people done things?
Is it worth spinning up an http image host?
Or maybe throwing files into an nginx folder inside HA?

Thoughts on a postcard :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For many years, I've used Weebly to host images, docs, etc, on our website URLs, but they're just static. When I need to do work on my phone or laptop and need that synch'd elsewhere, I use the Microsoft suite, but those are normally Excel charts or Word docs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I'm more interested in what people are doing for internal hosting, not external hosting services. Thanks for the info, however.