I don't understand how to change a nodes' icon to one beyond the default icon set

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1,5 years ago, a mod made a comment where he provided some code that's supposed to show a node with a washing machine icon provided by icofont.com

Unfortunately, importing that code into my current node-red installation (running as a HA addon) didn't load said washing machine icon and I couldn't get it to work after some fiddling around either.

Can someone help me out with this?
Also, can't you somehow change an individual nodes' color from within the node-red UI?

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Can you post the code of your node and a picture of what it currently looks like?

Where do you want to change the colour, in the editor or on a dashboard? Again a photo would be helpful.

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Various icons are now "pre-loaded" so you just need to use the name in the associated icon label of the node (along with initial colours)

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Changing the colours programmatically has been covered lots, even recently. You can search for the various ways in the forum.

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If you are referring to a Tabs icon (in the dashboard) then the same use of icon name applies

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There is a whole section in the dashboard readme node-red-dashboard (node) - Node-RED about icons available or loadable in the dashboard.

If you really mean a node and not the dashboard then no you can’t change its colour (unless it’s a sunflower) as that is a hint as to the actual type of node so is kept constant to aid “readability” of the flow.

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I was referring to node icons and colors and failed to realize that your comment was about dashboard icons.
Didn't realize that there actually was a dashboard since I can't see one in my node-red HomeAssistant Addon.

And you can't just change a nodes' icon to one from icofront.com either?

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For individual nodes then Node appearance : Node-RED
For an existing node you can change the icon in the appearance tab of the config panel

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I had taken a look at that page before but as far as I understand, a nodes' color changes have to be made from somewhere within the node-red folder instead of from within the UI which I find impractical. Or do you perhaps know a mod or the like that allows the latter?

The same goes for icons and I don't know how to change those beyond the couple hundreds that are available by default in the UI.

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