I have been exploring the possibilities to use Fully Kiosk as a way to facilitate a few (up to 4) of my old android phones as a switch panels.
My target:
Mounting an android phone on the wall to provide my not-so-smart-home-savvy family members with a simple set of switches. For example: I’d like to have a simple switch panel with big fonts in the garage with switches like “all on” “all off” “garage inside” “garage outside” switches. So I want to create as much of an “analog” feeling as possible to my family members who just need to switch on the lights (…) in a certain place.
My problem:
While I have found a lot of information as of how to implement special functions and REST-URLs for the android etc, I still did not quite find how I can provide the kiosk app with one URL for one predifined tab of a dashboard of some sort. I have seen I can give access to certain users to tabs, but is there a way to just provide one single link to a simple tile layout dashboard?
If I understand correctly, you just need to enter the lovelace address of the dashboard page you create for that device.
ie - you add a tab to your lovelace called Garage that has the needed button or switches as you desire. Then your URL to enter into FKB would be something like
http://hass-ip:8123/lovelace/garage
You can find the exact URL by navigating to the tab on your computer and copying the URL from your browser. It’s the same one. You will then paste that URL into the device and sign into Home Assistant as whatever user you want for that device/view.
thank you! Yes, I kind of want to do this, but I would imagine that a URL would be leading just to one “isolated” website without any HA menu, just the controls of the dashboard I define for it.
You can use Custom Header (available in HACS) to get rid of any navigation from the view. I have a specific user for pages with no navigation and use Custom Header to block the sidebar and header from that user. I am in the process of setting up exactly what you are talking about for mini control panels throughout the house.
this sounds great! I’m still wondering how you are planning to design the dashboards? so you mean this one specific user will have access to all of the dashboards but you will define different start urls to every device?
I have a user named “panels”. I used that user when signing into Home Assistant from the cell phones / tablets I am using as controllers. I then use the tools built into HA and Custom Header to control what that user can see.
I have this running in File Kiosk Browser on am old Galaxy S5. I plan on mounting it directly above the double light switch for my dining room and hallway leading to kids bedrooms. It also controls the light for our entryway that leads into dining room and the light for the fishtank in the dining room. I had a black space so I figured that was a good place for the weather forecast until something better presents itself.
I read that too and I use Custom Header extensively throughout my setup. I’ll be sticking with .115.6 for a while until I find a replacement or other solution. I am really not looking forward to redesigning all of my lovelace.
