HADashboard carousel?

Third party integrations HADashboard
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Hi,

I have defined several HADashboards and display them on mounted tablets throughout the house.

Is there a way to slide through a set of dashboards in an automated / timed manner ? I would like to see a kind of carousel view of a set of dashboards.

Example:
Main-dash-> delay 10sec -> Weather-Dash - delay 10sec ->Light-Dash -> delay 10 sec -> Presence-dash -> delay 10sec -> Main-dash

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you will get a shitload of network load and it will put a strain on the machine you run AD on, but its possible.

create a new dashboard
add 1 iframe widget with a 10 sec refresh that fills the whole screen.
add all your dashboards to the urllist.

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Thanks for the update … I will definitely try it.

I’m aware that this is generating a load of web requests but maybe with a 1min cycle it will be ok

Thanks a lot

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I’m interested in this too.

@ReneTode Your suggestion wasn’t very clear as far as how to do the automating of switching dashboards. The iframe tag doesn’t have a urllist attribute, and the existing cards I can find don’t seem to be relevant (Webpage Card - Home Assistant, )

Are you suggesting having an iframe on each dashboard with an iframe that has a src attribute which has a link to the next dashboard? I think that would work, but it would be hard to maintain.

Another option might be this:

Slideshow card can accept a list of cards to cycle through, of any type. It would make for a pretty hairy config, but you could use Grid cards with Slideshow Card and then have each dashboard configured in the grid.

A better solution is probably some sort of AppDaemon solution. It may be possible with an automation/blueprint, but I haven’t thought it through.

If anyone has a simple and elegant way to cycle through dashboards periodically, for example for use with a tablet/kiosk setup, please let us know!

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I haven’t tried it but why not use an AD app that fires a navigate event? You can provide the AD app with a list of dashboards within the YAML and write a py file to handle firing the events. Dashboard Creation — AppDaemon 4.2.2 documentation

Alternatively, if you’re using a kiosk app that can subscribe to an MQTT broker, you can probably accomplish the same thing by sending MQTT messages.

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this topic is about the original HAdashboard from Appdaemon, not about home assistant dashboards.
and in HAdashboard the iframe widget has an urllist attribute.

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I don’t know, if this fits with HAdashboard, but shouldn’t browser_mod be able to do this?

Navigate to a different view or panel.

Works like the navigate tap_action.

Parameters:

navigation_path - the path to navigate to

service: browser_mod.navigate
data:
navigation_path: /lovelace/1

Note: navigation_path does not have to be a lovelace path. All paths in Home Assistant works. (E.g. /states, /dev-info, /map)

There is a service call to navigate, so you should be able to configure an automation, that switches between views/dashboards.

How this fits into HAdashboard idk, but it should work, as long as you have a browser displaying the dashboards.

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there are always different ways, you can do it with appdaemons HAdashboard or with browser mod and most likely with a lot of different programs as well.

as long as you have a browser displaying the dashboards

i dont think there is any other way then a browser (or a program with browsing functionalities) to show dashboards, because they are all html pages :wink: