pardon meā¦ forgot to go there. my bad.
After upgrading to 0.111 I needed to clear my cache on my tablet fully kiosk browsers. No problem there and Iām back up and running. Thank you for the quick fix / updates.
but
After clearing the cache in my fully kiosk browser the deviceID changed. In order to correct that I had to update my configuration.yaml in Home Assistant. To get that to be updated and used I had to restart Home Assistant. This would be fine but my Z-Wave takes 15 minutes to come back online.
Two things:
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If I purchase a Plus license for fully kiosk browser will the licensing become broken if I clear the cache on the device?
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Is there a way for me to update the device aliases in configuration.yaml without restarting Home Assistant? My automations use the alias. In the example below my auto notifications are setup in a group.
browser_mod:
devices:
b1a7c97c-0b3a9454:
name: office_panel
panel_announcement_group:
name: Panel Announcement Group
entities:
- media_player.office_panel
thank you
The deviceID really isnāt meant to ever change in FKB, can you check if you get the same DeviceID as the one displayed in the FKB settings?
The deviceID in fully kiosk browser settings is Device ID e8a2438-f7288463
I test in Home Assistant by toggling the Light. I am able to control the device in Home Assistant using b1a7c97c-0b3a9454
I am not sure where the disconnect is. I have had this problem since I first started using fully kiosk browser. I just today realized that it was a problem and the fully kiosk device id should not change.
Thanks for the help.
Iāll try to charge my old android tablett and see if I can reproduce this.
I can reproduce this with Chrome on Windows 10 and also fully kiosk browser on an Amazon Fire tablet that has been slicked with LineageOS.
I guess Chrome is understandable since clearing the cache on that would create a new device ID.
I need them to come out with fully kiosk browser for Windows!!
hey, iām trying to set this add on via hacs, but canāt find it when i search by name, if i want to add the repository i get the following message: Repository āthomasloven / hass-browser_modā exists in the store.
Is this and known problem? I prefer to work with hacs to keep up to date with updates etc. Or do I just overlook something and make a stupid mistake?
cheers and tnx for the help!
Hello guys, just found out this awesome custom component! Thanks a lot for the developement 
Iām trying to achieve something with HA.
I want my automations to be able to automatically play/ pause any media that is playing in chrome browser on my PC, so that I can pause youtube video if I get a phone call for example
Iāve tried the media component of this custom component, unfortunately it doesnāt seem to be able to control media on other chrome pages? Do you think I might have setup something wrong?
A nice feature of chrome browser is this button:
Thanks
Thatās not possible with browser_mod.
The browse_mod player is just an audio player running in the Home Assistant frontend. It canāt control other things on your computer.
Firt of all, Thanks for making this awesome component.
iām trying to get the popup card working. followed the instructions on github and at a moment it worked. But then i changed something in the card config and now i canāt get it back to work.
iām definetly missing something in the config.
this is my card config.
aspect_ratio: 4/1
entity: media_player.spotify
name: Play Spotify
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: browser_mod.popup
service_data:
card:
- cards:
- entities:
- entity: input_select.spotify_playlist
- entity: input_select.spotify_speakers
title: Spotify Test Card
type: entities
- aspect_ratio: 4/1
entity: script.spotify
icon: 'mdi:spotify'
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: script.spotify
type: 'custom:button-card'
- conditions:
- entity: media_player.spotify
state_not: idle
type: conditional
- card:
artwork: full-cover
entity: media_player.spotify
hide:
controls: false
power: false
progress: false
source: true
volume: false
info: scroll
style: ''
tap_action:
action: more-info
type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
type: 'custom:stack-in-card'
title: Spotify player
deviceID:
- this
- dashboard
type: 'custom:button-card'
It is based on this:
aspect_ratio: 4/1
entity: media_player.spotify
name: Play Spotify
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: browser_mod.popup
service_data:
card:
entities:
- light.bed_light
- light.kitchen_lights
- light.ceiling_lights
type: entities
deviceID:
- this
- dashboard
title: Popup example
type: 'custom:button-card'
Which is also not working.
can someone help me to check the code?
I think the answer is no but can you use browser mod with a google home hub to turn the hub to home assistant when motion is detected? I canāt seem to see the hub as a binary sensor but have the others which is why Iām thinking it might be noā¦
Hi Thomas - does this DEFINITELY work? Because now it turns out itās not just me - thereās another chap who never managed to get it to work either. Just wondering. LOVE the card and what you do but just wondering if thereās maybe an undetected bug here?
I donāt use browser_mod myself, and havenāt actually tested it for a very long time.
Itās quite possible that something has broken about the hack that makes - this work.
You could try deviceID: this instead, until I have time to fix it. Thatās a bit more stable.
Can someone who is using fully kiosk browser try something for me?
Iām solving for a discrepancy between the deviceID shown within fully kiosk browser and what is shown in my Home Assistant configuration.
When I clear cache on my fully kiosk browser the device id changes in Home Assistant. It remains the same in fully kiosk browser.
This is a problem as I have to restart Home Assistant to capture the new device alias whenever I clear cache on the device.
I can duplicate this personally on amazon FireOS, LineageOS both with fully kiosk browser installed.
The deviceID is shown in fully kiosk browser here
Settings / Other Settings / Device ID
thank you
One of the android app on a tablet doesnāt seem to be working. When I do browser_mod.debug from the developer tools from my PC browser, my PC browser and mobile phone (android app) will get a popup with the device ID.However on the tablet (android app) nothing is popping up. When I go into the developer tool on the tablet (Android App), and do browser_mod.debug it will cause the popup to showup on every other device except for the tablet. Iāve tried reinstalling the app, clearing the cache and data but nothing seems to be working.
The only working thing is that if I use a browser(firefox) on the tablet will I see a popup.
Other notes: Android app is using the most up to date app, Tablet android OS: Android 7.1.1
Does anyone have any solution to the problem of the android app not showing a device id popup when I do browser_mod.debug ?
Thanks!
This tablet did not have chrome browser installed, which made the app not work with browser_mod. After enabling it I can see the deviceID now.
Does anyone know how you first CHECK the current path before ānavigatingā ? I know how to read the path
{{ state_attr('sensor.7d8111b8_a8211111', 'path') }}
but I donāt know how to assess/compare in a template/condition
thanks!