Home Assistant Display Platform
With Fully Kiosk Browser Component
This project is for a display platform for Home Assistant that can be remotely controlled. The initial use-case for this is to control Fully Kiosk Browser using it's built-in REST API.
Warning: This is my first platform and component for Home Assistant, so it is still VERY rough. It works for me but there is no guarantee that it will work for anyone else or their neighbors.
Installation
Simply check out the repository into $CONFIGDIR/custom_components/display:
$ git clone https://github.com/daemondazz/homeassistant-displays.git $CONFIGDIR/custom_components/display
And then need to add display: section to your configuration file with the IP
addresses of the displays you want to control:
display:
- platform: fully_kiosk
name: Kitchen Tablet
host: 192.168.1.100
password: 1234
On the tablet, you will need to enable the Remote Administration (from local network only should be fine) and set a Remote Admin Password.
Usage
Once installed, you should have a new 'displays' card on your main HA Overview page. The state card for each tablet will show some information about the tablet, such as manufacturer, model and battery status and allow the screen to be turned on and off.
Limitations
This module currently only allows the displays to be turned on or off. More functionality to follow, such as loading URLs, TTS, etc.
This module does not correctly handle the tablets being offline when HA is started.