Fully Kiosk Alternative

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Hi everybody…

i wrote an app thats somehow an alternative to the fully kiosk app…

Currently no additional features than

  • display a website fullscreen in landcape or portrait
  • stay alive / awake if motion is detected by camera (which i could only test on 2 physical devices, so feel free to check it out)

All source codes are open, the app will stay free and without charge, so please use it and if you like it, leave me a note…

→ Release APK

The App is designed in material 3 standard, implemented i18n, theming, fine configuration for all parameters, …

Will be pushed to playstore ans apple store soon, but google requires me to submit VIDEOS, how i use the camera… ??? Will figure this out

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Looks interesting. Any plans to have the ability to have HA send request to turn display on and off? Also, ability to specify which dashboard view to display?
thanks!

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You can define the url in the settings, so no problem to deeplink to your dashboard-view…

Yes, i really thought about the possibility to communicate with ha.

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New Release 1,0,1:

  • Added choosable language (en, de, fr, es, pt) in settings
  • added first mqtt client configuration to post motions to HA or get commands from HA…
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Thanks, but what I really meant is the ability to send a command from HA to change to a different dashboard or view.

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Ok, perhaps via mqtt?

Or do you mean something like websocket? As that is a webview with javascript enabled, you could do it also in the views.

Perhaps explain me exactly what you mean, i could try to implement it…

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You could use Browser Mod which can control the screen.

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I am currently using the Companion App to display my dashboard on a tablet. I can change the dashboard/view like this in an automation or script. I use different views based on various factors:

So something similar, MQTT would also work.
thanks

      - action: notify.mobile_app_samsung_tablet
        data:
          message: "command_webview"
          data:
            command: "/lovelace-tablet/tablet"
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Ok, sounds like a good starting point…

The app is not only HA centric, but you could view every website fullscreen with it.

But ok, mqtt client is implemented in about 30 minutes, incl. listener… so you also could use this app as kind of “motion tracker” in ha…

Will figure out the paths and the syntax this evening.

Thanks for your input

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how to have HA send voice notification to it?
for example, with Fully Kiosk, HA would announce: “it is now 6:30am, time to wake up!”

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This is a great attempt but it never sleeps on my both tab s9 fe and tab a9 samsung tablets. It always keeps screen on. Do you I need to do anything to fix this?

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Same here - it never sleeps. If I close the app, the tablet sleeps. But when it’s running, it stays awake. Seems like a great solution if that could be fixed!