I hacked a screensaver into HADashboard. After ~5 minutes of no activity, this screensaver automatically loads. Tapping on the screen takes you back to the dashboard.
This required creating a custom theme and injecting some extra javascript and image files from an nginx webserver (I’m running it on the same Pi as HASS/HADashboard). I just drop pictures into a folder on my NAS and they get automatically added and it scrolls through the pictures like a digital picture frame. The weather slide uses the Weather Underground sensor in my HASS install. Background images change depending on the current weather conditions.
You’ll need to make some modifications to suit your environment. If there’s interest I can try to document it better and make better use of configuration variables.
I kind of avoided some (most) of the “best practices” from the documentation because I was lazy and didn’t want to take the time to learn them - but I’d love to see it in the official build and less of a hacked widget-turned-fullscreen. I’m more than happy to help, I’m just not very familiar with the inner workings of HADashboard.
May i have more documentation about how to integrate it into my hadashboard environment?
I grabbed the custom widget files but i don’t know how to modify my dashboard to have it working…
- but I’d love to see it in the official build and less of a hacked widget-turned-fullscreen. I’m more than happy to help, I’m just not very familiar with the inner workings of HADashboard.