Cast Home assistant lovelace on google TV for morning dashboard

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Hello everyone,

I have created a morning dashboard that includes the following items:

  • Time & date
  • Forecast, weather
  • Display of the rain on a map
  • Sleeping statitics
  • Daily news from a live YouTube channel
  • Outside and Inside Temperature chart
  • Main task to do during the day based on my microsoft to do tasks
  • Evolution of my stock market (via yahoo finance api)
  • My daily agenda fetched from outlook and google
  • Local daily news from rss subscription
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The display is very good on my computer screen (as seen above), unfortunately on my TV screen (via google TV chromecast), it doesn’t fit as well. I display the dashboard using the app TV BRO (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phlox.tvwebbrowser&hl=fr&gl=US) available on chromecast. Its a web browser.
Does anyone have an idea on how to optimize the display and ajust it so that it fits my screen?
Thanks a lot !

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Why not cast directly from HA to your Chromecast device? (and not using the TV BRO app)

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Hello, It doesn’t work in a stable way unfortunately. It was the first solution I tried but it didn’t meet my requirements.

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Hi,

I have used the Dashboard Screensaver App to display dashboards on my Nvidia Shield (more info from the developer here). It works okay for me. It might render your dashboard in a more appealing way.

I am looking for a way to display a dashboard on my TV and also control the dashboard with the d-pad on my remote so I can trigger automations and such. So far nothing I have not found anything that offers d-pad control. Do you know if TV Bro does?

Thanks

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Hello,
What do you exactly mean by D-pads? I tested TV Bro just to be able to use it a as a chromecast webbrowser. For now it does the job exepts for the sizing of my lovelace (too big font size). It doesn’t offer more control than with the google tv remote

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I use Odin Browser. The only way to have a normal size of cards and font sizes on Sony Google TV. But I have another issue. I can’t do automation with the android SDK command to open the right Lovelace.

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I did this on my television with the standard HA Cast. Works fine. My problem is that at the same time I tried to play a radiostation and that didn’t work. Are you using sound at the same time as well?

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I play a radio station on a lenovo smart clock on my bedside, I’ll try again the cast function, maybe it didn’t work correctly… Are you using the following service?

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Yes, I do.
If, in the action part of the automation, I put the radiostation on top then the cast screen. It starts the radio, stops it again and shows the cast screen.
If I do it the other way around then it shows the cast screen for a short moment and then starts the radio.
I guess this is expected behavior because the automation does his taks in the order it’s given in the automation.
I need to find a way to send the sound and the cast screen simultaneously.

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Wouldn’t it be easiest to connect a RaPi to an input of the TV and make the Dashboard available via it? It certainly could be an old Pi.
You would only need a usable Rasp. App.
Chrome Browser & Kiosk Mode?
Christian

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I’am such an idiot. Sure - there is an easy way. Just autostart HA Kiosk on an cheap RaPi.
Not sure if a zero is good enough.
But will give it a try.
Cheers
Christian