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

dcapslock · September 10, 2025, 9:09pm

Do you mean that you have a dashboard named Fusion and wish for it to be default? If you want this for all users then the best is to use a Default action using browser_mod.navigate. There is an example in the documentation.

dcapslock · September 10, 2025, 9:13pm

Hi, the recent change is that there will be an extra click to make sure that dismissing the user interaction works correctly, plus also prevents an unintended click on dashabord. So yes, an extra click.

If you don’t use remote media_player then you can set the Hide Interaction icon Frontend setting.

The latest documentation has an updated section on User interaction and why it is needed, and how to disable the icon.

laurens362 · September 10, 2025, 9:47pm

Thanks!!!

Protoncek · September 11, 2025, 7:38am

Ok, currently i have set “hide interaction icon” since i don’t use media player. Attribute “audio_interaction_required” is consequently true in my case. But, can i manually trigger this interaction (and “false” this attribute), or is it only way to re-enable interaction icon and refresh?
I know that this attribute is not important in my case, but i’m just curious if there is an option (you never know…)

dcapslock · September 11, 2025, 8:13am

Only way to have Browser Mod know it can play audio in your case is to have it test when it refreshes. The fact audio_interaction_required is true means that you do need the Interaction at refresh. The only devices/platforms I know that allow audio without interaction is Chrome (set audio settings to site to Always) and Fully Kiosk with the appropriate setting set.

So in summary, yes, unset Hide interaction icon and refresh.

Protoncek · September 11, 2025, 8:44am

Thanks! That’s a great info. I use edge on my PC’s, which is basically chrome, and it does have this setting (i’ve had it on limited).
I also use fully on my tablets, but it has it’s own media player and a great feature that you can play media with http address line command. But i’ll still search out for that setting…

Thanks! As always, you rock!

dcapslock · September 11, 2025, 8:46am

Thanks for the feedback. For your information, and others who may be reading, the Browser Mod panel on devices will show any Fully Setting which are not set but recommended for Browser Mod. The audio setting is one of them.

sebpro · September 11, 2025, 1:22pm

I made a sensor to check if any user is in edit mode, checking all browser mod instances and “browser_path:” states but they all drop the “?edit=1” part of the url. Why is that and can I somehow get it to register the full url?

dcapslock · September 11, 2025, 9:46pm

The Path sensor uses window.location.pathname which does not have search strings applied. What I can suggest is that new attribute gets added to the Panel sensor which is editMode. This is straightforward and can be in the next version. If this works for you please put in a Feature Request on GitHub. Thanks.

thorshammer · September 14, 2025, 9:02am

SOLVED

I am so sorry. I had completely missed the “Full user interaction” option.

Here’s the original text:

I have been facing a problem with the media_player ever since I upgraded from January’s version of browser_mod (Jan 4, 2025).

When I recently found a warning in the HA logs after updating stating that my old version of browser_mod was going to stop working soon, I upgraded browser_mod a week ago (2.5.2). Since I was facing problems, I upgraded again today (2.5.3), but the problem persists.

Setup:
Several Raspi 4 devices with Touchscreen running Firefox in kiosk mode (firefox --kiosk).

Problem:
The media_player will not work, giving me a “Please interact with the browser first” error instead. browser_mod.navigate works, media_player.play_media does not.

The error does not occur on one (!) of the devices which is identical in setup with the others. Also it runs well on my local browser, all making this very mysterious to me.

I never had this problem before with the January version or previous versions.

Steps tried:

Refresh browser - tap browser_mod finger icon in the lower right hand corner of the screen.
Stop Firefox, delete .cache/mozilla and .mozilla, reboot Raspi, restart Firefox, register device with browser_mod, refresh screen, tap finger icon.

In Browser Mod -> Device config icon the controls list the device as “off” or with a “muted audio” icon. Klicking the “turn on” icon next to it does not seem to have any effect (I would have expected the finger icon to appear again on the Raspi, instead I get `Failed to perform the action media_player/volume_mute. Validation error: Cannot unmute browser: 07e99d68-1abe4cca. Please interact with the browser first.').

Current entity states:

type: browser_mod
browserID: 09e3b097-d1af0955
video_interaction_required: false
audio_interaction_required: true
friendly_name: LCARS
supported_features: 152463

As you can probably tell from my report, I am a complete dilettante when it comes to exploring these problems which I apologize for.

Is there anything I can do to get the interaction with the browser reliably registered? Tapping the finger icon does not seem to be enough.

dcapslock · September 14, 2025, 9:20am

Are you hiding the interaction icon in Frontend settings? If so then the correct latest interaction sequence for playing audio automatically cannot be satisfied.

Conversely if you are not hiding the interaction icon then it’s like you need to set the Full interaction Frontend settings for the divices that won’t play.

Busy cooking dinner so can check back later once you confirm the above and perhaps try Full interaction.

thorshammer · September 14, 2025, 9:24am

Thank you so much, Darryn! I found the full user interaction option only now. So sorry about this. Anyway, kudos for everything, Darryn!

dcapslock · September 15, 2025, 3:55am

Browser Mod 2.6.0-beta.1 available for testing

2.6.0-beta.1 release notes (also included below).

New features

Refeactored size and style to popup_styles. While this is a major update, it is not breaking and all existing popup size and style conifigurations will still work. Notable information for this update:
- New Popup styles section in UI confirguration for custom:popup-card. Yaml parameter section is popup_styles. See SERVICES.md for detailed information of the popup_styles configuration section.
- New Styles documentation and examples guide. See STYLES.md
- Ability to define your own popup styles which can also include the standard styles or you own other styles. See STYLES.md
- initial_style replaces size which is now deprecated and will not show in UI if not configured in yaml.
- all popup style now replaces style which is now deprecated and will not show in UI if not configured in yaml.
- Ability to cycle between styles when tapping popup title, or with the new browser_mod.set_popup_style service, using Style sequence (style_sequence). You can cycle between inbuilt styles and/or your own. See STYLES.md for an example using custom style.
Tapping popup title will cycle between styles set by Style sequence. Default configuration is to cycle between wide and normal styles mimicing the built in Home Assistant more-info dialog.
browser_mod.more_info now supports hass-more-info view parameters of history, settings and related. See SERVICES.md for more information.

dcapslock · September 16, 2025, 11:06am

Sometimes the best thing jumps out of nowhere. Now I can have a one button solution to get straight to edit a schdule.

    tap_action:
      action: fire-dom-event
      browser_mod:
        service: browser_mod.more_info
        data:
          entity: schedule.aquatech_preset_mode
          view: settings

arganto · September 22, 2025, 3:05pm

If I open a popup “over” a screen, which has a scroll bar, than the scrollbar is disabled durhing showing the popup, which leads to a jump right and back left after closing the popup when the scrollbar is shown again.

Is this only a behavior in my browser or a general thing and is there a way to avoid this jumping, e.g. leave the scroll bar displayed in background even with opened popup?

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dcapslock · September 22, 2025, 9:32pm

I dont see this behaviour (Chrome and Safari on MacOS), though both only show the scrollbar when scrolling.

arganto · September 23, 2025, 5:24am

Can confirm on iOS and do not have a Mac to test it.

But at least on my Win11+Vivaldi (Chrome) it is like I have shown. The popup hides the scrollbar temporarely.

dcapslock · September 23, 2025, 5:44am

Win11 + Chrome for me shows what you are seeing, and I also see with standard more-info so it is inherent in the Home Assistant dialog implementation. There will be soon a transition from mdc to webawesome for Home Assistant dialogs. Things like this may change. If important you may wish to confirm that the standard more-info dialog does it for you and submit an issue to Frontend.

arganto · September 23, 2025, 6:04am

Yes, see this there now as well. Perhaps I use browser mod popups far more often than the more info or those then only within browser mod popups where it is already hidden.

O.k. Think it is something around hiding via overflow settings on the background. But if browser mod cannot tweak this and only depends on the core, then it is like it is.

dcapslock · September 24, 2025, 5:16am

Browser Mod 2.6.0 released

See 2.6.0 Release notes.