Hassbian - how to launch web browser in kiosk mode at startup using HDMI output

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Hi all,

Trying to build a home automation control centre based upon Home Assistant. Have built most of what I want through the various tutorials etc (amazing forum, thanks all!) however the last step really is to build the “front end” interface. Home Assistant has the great web GUI which is perfect, however I don’t want to use another PC (or pi etc) to run that front end - It’d be great to have it just available through the raspberry pi touch screen running in Kiosk mode…

Anyone got any experience here?

I’m running Hassbian… on a raspberry pi 2 model B

Thanks!

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I believe Hassbian is based on Raspbian lite, which does not have any front end packages installed.

You can install them all yourself (if you do sudo apt-get install firefox it should get everything you need), but you would be in more charted territory if you just installed HA on a full rasbian HD card.

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For a customized version of the front end - for something that small - I would use HADashboard and create your own.