Choose any background as a test to see if it works. Once downloaded, installed, and running, you should see a Lively Wallpaper icon in your taskbar by your clock. The first step is to download Lively Backgrounds from here: Lively Wallpaper by rocksdanister If you don’t have these setup up, refer to these links first. HASS Workstation Service, in case you didn’t know, is an application that lets you control your desktop PC from within Home Assistant. This guide assumes you already have Home Assistant running and HASS Workstation Service is already setup.

He went through the setup very quickly, and after I set this up myself, I found a few extra things he should’ve pointed out, so I took the time to document this process step-by-step. I did not come up with this idea, so all credit goes to GeekToolKit’s youtube video. In combination with Home Assistant, HASS Workstation Service, and Lively backgrounds, this is definitely possible! Have you ever thought how cool it would be to if your desktop PC wallpaper automatically changed based on the weather outside? For example, if it was raining, the wallpaper would change to a live “rainy” wallpaper, or if it was sunny, it might show a beach with moving waves.

Lively wallpaper library