Browser Mod behavior (solved: DietPi was the problem)

Third party integrations
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I have the following setup: HAOS is running on my server, a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 10 inch display with Firefox registred in browser mod as the control panel in living room. When someone rings my doorbell, the browser mod switches to the Lovelace page with the camera at the door, so everything is fine and working. But after that, the page is completely locked, I can’t click on anything, and no links are working anymore. I can’t access the menu or any other link on this site. How do I get rid of this after the doorbell triggers so I can use the page again?

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Hi,

I don't use Browser Mod anymore, so I can't check the options for you.

Would using a popup with a timeout work for your setup?

Or perhaps an automation that triggers after, for example, 1 minute and navigates back to the home screen?

3

I already tried this, then I am at the HomeScreen, but same problem, no link is working like a read only site. Like browser mod is locking the whole site.

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How do you solve this? Reboot the RPi?
Anything in the logs?

How does your automations looks like? --> That triggers the doorbell sequence
please post in .yaml

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The site is working again, if the cache from Firefox is deleted, then the browser gets a new ID, old one is not working anymore, after that, site is working again. Registering new ID and trigger doorbell/cam only one time and site is locked again.

The trigger is working, I use it for few other things as well, action is:

conditions: []
actions:
  - action: browser_mod.navigate
    metadata: {}
    data:
      path: http://192.168.xxx.xxx:8123/lovelace/doorcam
      browser_id:
        - 61b9f9476edf475dc35baa45f1eb1706
mode: single
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Try to change the path to:

path: /lovelace/doorcam
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Nope, even worse. Now after only changing to the new ID of Firefox in automation, site gets locked, not even have to trigger it, putting it back to old path, then I have to trigger to lock site. But I am a step further now, I tried the same with my notebook, there it is working fine, so it must be constellation RPI4/DietPi and Firefox ESR. Will change to RaspiOS tomorrow and test. Edit: even Midori is locked, so it must be DietPi, installing RaspiOS atm.

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With RaspiOS and Firefox it is working, so it was DietPi, for whatever reason? Now it is working as it should. Problem solved. Thanks @woempiej for help!

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