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

thomasloven · February 6, 2020, 8:31am

poudenes · February 6, 2020, 8:50am

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

thomasloven · February 6, 2020, 9:30am

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

poudenes · February 6, 2020, 12:24pm

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

Oligarch · February 9, 2020, 1:43pm

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 · February 10, 2020, 8:04am

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

hv71 · February 10, 2020, 10:39am

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 · February 10, 2020, 11:30am

Unfortunately I haven’t figured this out yet.

thomasloven · February 10, 2020, 1:18pm

Hej.

The device_id is stored by your browser. It’s kind of like a cookie, and is connected to the webpage via it’s domain name.
So, if you access hass via say https://hassio.local at home but https://xyz.ui.nabu.casa at not_home, you will get two different device_ids in the same browser on the same machine.
When you get back home, you will get the old device_id back.

Anonymous mode in your browser does not store the device_id between sessions.

hv71 · February 10, 2020, 1:36pm

Thanks @thomasloven - that explains a lot! So, it is even better than I thought

Alex_Yeoman · February 11, 2020, 12:20am

I’m trying to refresh my wall tablet back to my home lovelace screen after so many minutes of inactivity…Would anyone know how to trigger an automation if the “last seen” hasn’t changed in 5 minutes?

type: browser_mod
last seen: 2020-02-10T19:17:04.066973
deviceID: 08285aef-219ab0f2
path: /lovelace/home
visibility: visible

Ryan_Grandy · February 13, 2020, 10:54pm

I am having a weird result when I use this component where I want to display the “light-popup-card” in a popup card. It displays the popup card but it will also display the sun card when i click off it on my phone. It also displays 2 headers.

Does anyone know why this happens based on the code I have?

popup_cards: 
  switch.kitchen_patio_switch:
    title: "TEST"
    style:
      position: fixed
      z-index: 999
      top: 0
      left: 0
      height: 100%
      width: 100%
      display: block
      align-items: center
      justify-content: center
      background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)
      flex-direction: column
      margin: 0
      "--iron-icon-fill-color": "#FFF"
    card:
      type: custom:light-popup-card
      entity: switch.kitchen_patio_switch
    deviceID: 
      - this

Card that comes up:

When I click one of the “X”:

thomasloven · February 13, 2020, 10:58pm

Try this: https://github.com/thomasloven/hass-browser_mod/releases/tag/22

Ryan_Grandy · February 13, 2020, 11:06pm

Thanks for the quick response. However, I believe I am already on release 22, based on what HACS says. I am running HA version 0.105.2, right now.

jvaillant · February 14, 2020, 8:22pm

I’m doing style passing extensively in my popups and haven’t had any issue.
I’m doing it in custom ‘popup_cards’ and with type entities as opposed to picture-elements
but I doubt that would affect the result …
you might want to check that you’re running card-mode v12 as v13 seems to currently broken.

QbaF · February 19, 2020, 8:31pm

Why this great plugin is not available in HACS?

VDRainer · February 19, 2020, 9:07pm

It is.
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QbaF · February 19, 2020, 10:47pm

Ah, sorry, I was looking in plugins and I didn’t find that info on docs also. Thx.

daneboom · February 24, 2020, 5:13pm

Anyone know why I have three lights related to browser_mod? I would think that two were old sensors from previous sessions/cookies, but if you look, all three of the ‘lights’ have been seen today!

AhmadK · February 24, 2020, 6:52pm

their type says it all I think.
afaik they call them "virtual light’ - each browser_mod has one