🔹 Browser_mod - turn your browser into a controllable device, and a media_player

[lalamite (Chris)]

Thank you very much for this mod @thomasloven ! Love it so far.

Just one question:
I’m using Fully Kiosk browser on an android tablet and would like to turn off the screen (light.tablet) 5 minutes after no interaction on the device. Haven’t found which trigger I need to use to get it done.
Could you please help?

[thomasloven (Thomas Lovén)]

There’s a setting for that in the FKB app somewhere. That’s better than to rely on hass to do it for you.

[lalamite (Chris)]

I know but I would like to deactivate the screen only at night.
That’s why I’m asking

[Raku (Łukasz)]

I use this command to display a camera image on a tablet, what to do to make a photo from the camera appear instead of a movie

auto_close: true
command: more-info
deviceID:

• dce9ca7a-98b720e2
  entity_id: camera.streaming_enabled
  large: true

[csula]

Hi,

First-things-first, thanks for this wonderful plugin! I realy love it, but I have a little problem with camera.

I’m using Hass.io with browser_mod on a Huawei tablet Fully (PLUS) with enabled camera access, javascript frontend, and almost everything what i can enable. In the HA configuration.yaml:

browser_mod:
prefix: “browser_”
devices:
mydeviceid:
name: my terminal device
camera: true

In the HA log, browser terminal there is no error, and I can reach every other sensor, binary sensor from this device. Even motion detection!
I have several other generic cameras and those are configured and present in system. Only the camera.my_terminal_device is not showing.
Of course I’ve rebooting the Hass.io and the tablet after every change.

In the Fully, (or even in Chrome) the HomeAssistant website is not asking permission for the webcam and/or the microphone. I use it on http.

What am I missing, what I can do to access camera?

Thanks,
Gabor

[thomasloven (Thomas Lovén)]

Browser_mod - turn your browser into a controllable device, and a media_player

For fully kiosk I recommend not using camera: true. The built in functionality is better in every way.

[csula]

Thanks, the direct camera access by Fully is working!

[jvaillant (Jean-Luc Vaillant)]

First let me say thanks Thomas for all the amazing components you have created.
I do have a major problem with the popup function though (which my UI design depends heavily on).
Whether I override a more-info dialog with a popup_card OR use browser-mod.popup, the card does work as intended BUT all the other “vanilla” info cards no longer appear (the screen gets greyed out but the standard popup does not appear). I can reproduce the problem on iOS HA app, Safari and Chrome.
Only way to “restore” the normal behavior is to force reload the page.

Any idea what could be happening? Thanks

[perryw (Perry)]

Whether I override a more-info dialog with a popup_card OR use browser-mod.popup, the card does work as intended BUT all the other “vanilla” info cards no longer appear (the screen gets greyed out but the standard popup does not appear).

I’ve been setting up browser_mod yesterday / today and this answers so much. I’m also experiencing this bug on Firefox and I’ve been trying to fire out what’s been going on and why things aren’t working. I now see it’s also reported on github - more-info does not work after browser mod pop up · Issue #56 · thomasloven/hass-browser_mod · GitHub

[scstraus]

Hey, is there some way to get a camera stream to pop up in fullscreen mode rather than windowed? I have some portrait orientation cameras that don’t display nicely unless they are in fullscreen streaming. I tried it like this, but can’t get it to open with fullscreen…

- service: browser_mod.command
  data:
    command: more-info
    entity_id: camera.back_stream
    deviceID:
      - !secret kindle_kitchen_deviceid
    large: true

[jvaillant (Jean-Luc Vaillant)]

Oh thanks Perry! That was indeed the bug and with the upgrade to 0.105 everything is working great again!

[poudenes]

Hi All,

Im trying to use the camera part. But really don’t know how to do this.
The camera: true is added in configuration.yaml in browser_mod part.

Do I need something enable in FKB ?

[thomasloven (Thomas Lovén)]

Browser_mod - turn your browser into a controllable device, and a media_player

[poudenes]

Ok Thanks. But still not clear how to get the camera of the tablet into HA then… or do I ask something stupid

[thomasloven (Thomas Lovén)]

There’s a rest command to get a camera snapshot. That can be used with the generic camera i hass.

[poudenes]

I saw already some http links to do some remote access things. WIll config this and see if its handy for me !

[Oligarch (Oleksandr)]

Can I somehow pass a style variable in Browser Mod Popup?

EXEMPLE (using card-mod):

type: picture-elements
image: /local/test.png
elements:
  - type: image
    image: /local/test1.png
    entity: switch.test
    style:
      filter: brightness(var(--brightness))

style:
  .: |
    ha-card {
      --brightness: {{  '0%' if... else... }}

The code above does not work with Browser Mod Popup

[atebeta (Christopher Stokkmo)]

@ASNNetworks

Unfortunately that did not help. I removed all style and it did center but was cropped, so I think I have to tinker with the style.

Did you ever figure out the formatting for this? I’m running into the same issue.

[hv71]

Hi - great mod!

Will the “device id” always be the same from a given browser regardless of it moving networks/IPs etc.? I have trouble understanding if some of my browser plugins confuse the plugin…

[ASNNetworks]

Unfortunately I haven’t figured this out yet.