Amazon Kindle Fire Dashboard Won't Bring In HA Theme Fully

Hardware
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Hi. I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I have a 9th gen Kindle Fire 7 I want to use for a Home Assistant dashboard with the LCARS theme. I am using Fully Kiosk to keep the tablet on the dashboard page. For whatever reason, it will not go to the local HA page. It just gives me an error. I logged into the Nabu Casa website and get to my HA that way. Here’s what shows on it.

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You can see my LCARS theme is partially there, but it’s not showing the card mods. Here’s how I want it to look:
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On any other device I have (including another Kindle), there is no problem showing the full theme and card mods, but this one Kindle won’t do it. It’s driving me nuts! Does anyone have a solution? Thanks in advance.

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Have you cleared the cache on the Kindle?

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It’s highly likely you have conflicting card_mod resources causing multiple element patching which can mean elements don’t get patched. Check Home Assistant logs for any card_mod logs noting such an issue.

Two paths to go:

  1. Check out info at GitHub - thomasloven/lovelace-card-mod: 🔹 Add CSS styles to (almost) any lovelace card · GitHub and make sure your resource URL is correct. If you have followed the theme instructions you have have the example hacstags and not the correct one, which also needs to be updated with each version of card_mod.
  2. Switch to UI eXtension (UIX) which has no resource url issues as it is all managed for you. Read the FAQ for information on migrating from card_mod, which is as easy as removing card_mod and installing UIX.
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Thanks, guys. Oddly the situation has righted itself. So weird, I’ve had that dashboard on there for a good month.
dcapslock, would you say that’s true even if I can open up that same dashboard on other devices and it looks like it should? I’ve been using card_mod quite a bit. I do run into situations where it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to, but can usually find a way around it. Sometimes my other “modded” dashboard do regress temporarily, but they come back. Is that what’s causing that?

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Yes, issue will come and go depending on what the starting page is for the device app as this may be old or fresh so may have old or fresh resources - no room here to go into the details but it is also why on a device you may not get HA’s own Frontend needs an update for some time after updating HA and issues that may only go away with a cache reset.

If the issue still comes and goes its pretty much conflicting card_mod resource URLs to iron out in your configuration and manage ongoing. Recommend to migrate to UIX as this is all managed by the UIX integration.