I have this idea of a single HA dashboard (unique from the ones we use on our mobile devices) I could load onto 32" TVs (android OS) we currently have above our primary TVs for displaying security cameras that would display four of my security cams AND have the current time & temp overlayed on top of them.
Something like this crude mock-up using images stolen from the world wide web:
I got the idea when adding camera cards to a dashboard I was making for our mobile devices when I created a card for one of our Unifi Protect cameras for one of the pages. I think I can get pretty darn close with basic templates for the cameras (other than the border issue) but I’m not sure how the overlay would work. I’m imagining it wouldn’t be very complex code to make it happen though, if the overlay thing isn’t an issue.
This would allow me to effectively combine our Show 5’s (we literally only use the displays for the time above our TVs) and security cam monitors (currently running an IP cam app) into one single device minus the voice assistant function of the Echo. This last function would then be met using the newer HA Voice devices instead which would then allow me to keep all of our data local.
The code from one of the current card/tile for one of the cameras looks like:
show_state: false
show_name: false
camera_view: live
type: picture-entity
entity: camera.garage_g4_bullet_low_resolution_channel
image: https://demo.home-assistant.io/stub_config/bedroom.png
I don’t know what that last line is and why it says bedroom. shrugs
Here’s the info from one of the cards that I use to display the current temperature:
{{ state_attr('weather.forecast_home', 'temperature') }}°F
I’m sure I’d use something similar but with “time” instead to display the temperature?
I have Studio Code Server installed for some basic edits I was making to the config file for a few things already to enable Alexa voice commands and a couple of other things. Just not quite sure the code wizardry that would have to happen to put four of those cams together w/o borders and in kiosk mode with the time/temp overlayed as illustrated above. Happy to provide additional info as needed.
Thoughts?
