HASS Iconset Generator for Font-Awesome

This is a dotnet 5.0 program that generates iconsets compatible with Home Assistant after 0.110 (https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2020/05/09/custom-iconsets/). It is designed to support Font Awesome icons (V5 and V6), but should be easily extendable to other SVG files.

Only tested in Linux, but should work on other platforms.

How to use

If you are looking for free/open iconsets check the js folder first. This project already has generated files for a few of those.

For all other iconsets, the easiest way to use this app is to use one of the already provided configuration files.

• v5-free.conf.json: Free V5 version of FontAwesome
• v5-pro.conf.json: Pro V5 version of FontAwesome
• v6-pro.conf.json: Pro V6 (currently alpha) version of FontAwesome
• simpleicons.conf.json: Configuration for the simpleicons project.

Steps

1. Make sure you have dotnet core 5.0 installed https://dot.net
2. Download the Desktop version of FontAwesome (free or pro).
3. Unpack the SVG folder in icons/v{5|6}-{free|pro}
4. Run dotnet run v{5|6}-{free|pro}.conf.json
5. Generated files will be inside the js folder

Format of config files:

To process other svg iconsets, a custom config file can be used:

{
    "outputPath": "js/v5-pro", // Where should the generated JS files be written.
    "iconsets": [ // An Array of iconsets to generate.
        {
            "directory": "icons/v5-pro/brands", // The path in which the .svg files can be found
            "name": "fab" // The name of the generated iconset. Used both for the js file and the ha prefix
        }
    ]
}

How to install in Home Assistant

1. Add the generated files to the config/www folder.
2. Reference them as Lovelace resources. URL: http://{homeassistant-url}/config/lovelace/resources
3. Done!

Future Plans

I'm looking to port the HASS custom component by thomas-loven to add automatic support to HA. Pull requests welcome