Insert local image into html template

[Steve-Mcl]

Files should not be served from your desktop.

To serve a file(image/whatever) the file must be in a served location.

This has been asked and answered many times on the forum. There is also a section in the node-red documentation.

Search the forum for httpStatic.

Here is one such result...

httpStatic and image

Aside from the precise location of the settings file, which is important to confirm, when you say: httpStatic: ' home/pi/personal/ ', did you mean: '/home/pi/personal/' - the slash at the front is quite important. Also, you need to restart Node-RED whenever you edit the settings file.