I’m running Raspbian Full Desktop, I’m trying to figure out how to set the browser to full kiosk and to automatically load the HA Lovelace page. Also to not blank the screen or go to sleep.
My idea is to have it connected to a extra TV I have installed and use it with Lovelace glance cards (Trackers, weather, sensor statuses etc.)
I’m using the custom header card to only use this view for the device with no header.
I have tried many different configurations and haven’t found anything that works the way the online guides say they will. Also trying to figure out how to set the browser to save the cookies to auto logon has been hard to figure out as well.
Does anybody have any recommendations on guides or and configuration that has worked for them?
Thanks in advance, hopefully I can figure out this over the weekend.
I think it’s because there are so many different methods and some might be outdated. So I have gotten close but never got fully what I was looking for. I wiped out the sad card last night and I’m going to give it another go!
Disclaimer: I have only had my RPi 3B+ for a week.
I personally do NOT recommend a straight install of Hassio (HassOS) even thou that is the easiest & officially recommended installation. I had lockups & stability issues when running it in a VM.
If you want the graphical desktop, plain Raspian may be sufficient unless your are need the tools for programming your Pi hardware.
If you are new to Home assistant, installing Hassio on Raspian may be best but has some customization limits in my experience.Hassio installs Home Assistant in a Docker container. To upgrade, it just replaces that container.
I just installed the Hassbian scripts on Raspian. This installs Home Assistant in a Python virtualenv ad the homeassistant user. I am still working on my config for this.
There are other manual options. If I know which way you are “leaning”, I may be able to advise further.
I have been using HomeAssistant for a bit over a year now. I’m much better then I was lol
I would like to stick with Raspbian because I also want to use Homebridge since the HomeKit component doesn’t yet support Cameras. I have been told I can still run Homebridge in Hassio but I haven’t figured out yet how to set that up.
I have tried different terminal commands from online guides but there always seems to be a few files that are outdated and makes the instillation fail or not work as intended.
The complete Raspian install on the Raspberry Pi is from NOOBS called the Full Desktop. It includes many tools to help you “hack” the Pi that are not generally needed for Home Assistant.
Due to the term “Full Desktop” I assumed they wanted to display HA on the Raspberry Pi.
And in the Original Post, it literally says he’s running Raspbian full desktop.
I’m not understanding why you went on about the various ways to install home assistant. He wants a desktop, where he can run a custom full screen page of his home assistant instance.
Exactly, the wants to display HA on the Pi. You don’t install HA on the Pi that you want to display.
Well, I guess technically you could install HA in a docker environment on the same pi that you want to display but there is no mention of that sort of info in the original post.
For what it is worth … I feel like I struck gold since I upgraded to RPi3B+ with HA loaded on Raspbian Stretch. It provides performance, a nice GUI/browser/text-editor, and a clean starting point. From my perspective, running HASSIO or Hasbian were like starting with a system that someone else had used for 6-months. You don’t know what they installed, how they configured it, if you need it, or how to uninstall it. My new system is much more reliable, and I understand how the pieces fit together.
Sorry, I was at work earlier and wasn’t able to respond. I tried different command line guides in the Raspbain terminal, but was unsuccessful. ended up with errors so I started over a few times.
