Browser service doesn't open the webpage

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I’m trying to create a dashboard for TV shows we watch and links to different play services.

I have managed to get this kind of layout so far where each picture card calls a script that casts the show to our livingroom chromecast. (https://github.com/lindell/home-assistant-svt-play)
What I now want is to make the badges work as links to the play channels main page.

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I found https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/browser/ which means you can call a browser service, and according to the description it should open a browser window/tab with the link. But I can’t get that working. (I have added browser: to configuration.yaml)
Not in Developer Tools -> Services or in a script.

Script:

'1583841668581':
  alias: tv4play
  sequence:
  - data:
      url: http://www.tv4play.se
    service: browser.browse_url

When I run this script nothing happens. What have I done wrong?

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Yes, System does not seem to work. What can I do to make this work. It just does not surf at all.

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Don’t know, have not found a solution yet

4

Is it possible to check if there is a browser included in the OS that runs Home Assistant, maybe it was forgotten?

5

I use Developer Tools, and I choose Browser/brose_url from the list and I enter
{“url”: “http://www.google.com”} and nothing happens. The system does nothing. Why? It this a known bug?

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I did found a work aeound for my purposes. Perhaps you could work with this to Hellis81? What I needed was a way to alert my webserver. And since browser.browse_url dont work. I instead use the shell command curl.

in conviguration.yaml I put:

shell_command:
hitWebPage: ‘curl http://www.mypage.com/sensorMessage/hallwaySensor.asp’

This works good enough for me.

7

I need to open the webpage itself not just a webhook thing.
Thanks anyway…

8

This is still an issue

9

So after giving more attention to the documentation we can find that this component will open browser only on host machine - the machine where your HA is installed.