# Show random local images on dashboard
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-random-local-images-on-dashboard/41356
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [20 February 2021 17:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-random-local-images-on-dashboard/41356 "2021-02-20T17:40:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Tanner](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Tanner)
#### Post date: [20 February 2021 17:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-random-local-images-on-dashboard/41356/1 "2021-02-20T17:40:35Z")
Hi,
I am new to Node Red. May I get help from you.
On local folder I want to place 200 Images.
Named 1.png, 2.png etc. Every 10 second, a random picture 1.png or 189.png should be shown.
OK, with the "random"-node, no problem.
I try to build my complete path to the imagefile called "1.png" with concatting the output of "random"-node and my local picture path (e.g. /home/pi/Pictures/1.png) but it does not work. For some reason, I could not build the output.
And the second problem is, how can I show that image on my dashboard? It shoud be possible, that a person, who is browsing to localhost:1880/ui/(random path)
should see my imagesin fullscreen.
Thank's in advance.
Tanner
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [20 February 2021 21:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-random-local-images-on-dashboard/41356/2 "2021-02-20T21:27:07Z")
> [@Tanner](#):
>
> /home/pi/Pictures/1.png
This came up in another thread recently. It is quite simple, you have given a filing system path instead of a URL path. The two things are different and you need to mentally convert between them when you are coding.
To serve up a bunch of static files (like images are), you configure the static folder in settings.js.
Assuming you haven't changed anything else in settings.js:
If you set the static path to:
```auto
/home/pi/Pictures
```
those files will then be available on the url:
```auto
http://:1880/1.png
```
and so on.
Because your Dashboard is already served from `http://:1880/ui`, you can shorten the URL's down to `/1.png`
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### Author:  [@Tanner](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Tanner)
#### Post date: [21 February 2021 23:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-random-local-images-on-dashboard/41356/3 "2021-02-21T23:25:12Z")
Thank you very much!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [23 March 2021 23:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-random-local-images-on-dashboard/41356/4 "2021-03-23T23:25:30Z")
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