I need some help. I really tried to get this to work, tried everything.
Using a Kindle Fire 8 HD, using the fully kiosk integration which is great, but the screensavers are sort of static. So I’m using wallpanel from HACs to handle the screensaver function.
The timing and pictures loaded from a URL work great, but I can’t get the weather display info no matter what I do, no matter what entities I use.
I’ve installed openweathermap integration as my source of weather and entities. I’ve created the code including a weather card in the section of wall panel at the top of my raw owed for my kiosk menu.
And the screensaver comes on, but all I get is an error that the “Entity not available weather.home”. I don’t have an entity called weather.home. Where is it getting it from? You can see from the code that I’m using one of the openweathermap entities.
So how do I get my Toronto Ontario weather working in a wallpanel screensaver running inside of fully kiosk? I’m happy to add a bounty, a $25 coffee for someone who can get it working using the current setup.
Have you refreshed/reloaded the page in the Fully Kiosk Browser after making the change in the wallpanel config to use weather.openweathermap?
I have just tested using the custom:weather-card on a dashboard using the openweathermap entity (weather.openweathermap) instead of the default weather.home and it loads it fine for me.
I have exited and re-started FKB a dozen times, likely re-booted the tablet a few times as I’m in the early stages. Is there a distinction between reloading a page and just re-starting FK?
Does the weather-card work ok when not using FKB? I have just tried installing FKB on my phone and the weather-card on the wallpanel screen saver updates immediately for me when I change the weather entity on the dashboard page on my PC.
I do have a weather.home entity provided by the Met.no integration, so maybe something is stuck trying to load that entity. You could try adding that integration to get the weather.home entity created and then you can try setting the weather-card to use weather.home to make sure it loads then change it back to weather.openweathermap.
I only suggested to try setting up Met.no to try and have a weather.home entity created to see if it works as I do have a weather.home entity on my HA setup
For me, the wallpanel screensaver weather-card is working fine using weather.openweathermaps so its definitely not hard coded to the weather.home entity.
Does the weather-card work for you when using it on a normal dashboard and not on the wallpanel screensaver? If it works normally but not with wallpanel then maybe its something on wallpanel causing this. I see you have already raised an issue with the developer. Lets hope they can help you with the problem.
Click on your dashboard weather card, then on the preferences symbol: here you can change the enitity id to weather.home and you have to update the name in the wallpanel config as well. (see images below)
hope it helps and thanks for the link to the github issue