Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

dabbler said:
It is an old mechnical rotating kWh type.
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Are you eskom direct or munic supplied? City of Cape Town munic limits your injection to 25% of the Amp rating of your supply. e.g. with an 80A supply, you can only inject 20A (circa 4.6kVA)
 
Anyone have any experience with the home assistant voice preview edition microphone?

My xiaomi speaker seems to have brain flu.

I'm looking at using chatgpt and playing through my xiaomi.
 
PhireSide said:
I put together a little combined dashboard/control panel for a Kindle Fire that I got here from @AlpineLemming60 a while ago. Still fiddling, but as it lives on my office desk it allows me to control some NB controls and see my power stats at a glance.

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Hmm I’ve got two of these Fire’s I’ve been meaning to get to.

Did you do the whole install Google Play store hack to install HA?

Or doing it some other way?
 
SauRoNZA said:
Hmm I’ve got two of these Fire’s I’ve been meaning to get to.

Did you do the whole install Google Play store hack to install HA?

Or doing it some other way?
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I used an app called Fully Kiosk Browser to load a specific webpage in Kiosk mode with the dashboard URL in HA.

www.fully-kiosk.com

Fully Kiosk Browser & App Lockdown Help - Fully Kiosk Browser

Android kiosk browser and app lockdown for interactive kiosk systems, digital signages and other unattended tablets with fullscreen and kiosk mode
www.fully-kiosk.com www.fully-kiosk.com
 
PhireSide said:
I think I sideloaded it IIRC
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Well that was far easier than I realised just downloading it in the browser.

Also turns out HA has a Kiosk Mode in the native app now so going to try that first...but how on earth do you make this Android piece of **** useable....holy crap it's slow.

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Actually let me just reset it entirely, taking the Kids Mode stuff off should already help.
 
Yeah, those Kindle Fire's are starting to show their age. Works perfectly fine as a static dashboard though, even with moving elements it seems happy.

I must look into that. I still use a Kiosk Mode plugin (that loads Kiosk mode by entering your URL with ?kiosk appended) so I can probably do away with that as well.
 
I thought this was quite nice :


It lets you combine entities from different devices into your own custom single device.
 
PhireSide said:
Yeah, those Kindle Fire's are starting to show their age. Works perfectly fine as a static dashboard though, even with moving elements it seems happy.

I must look into that. I still use a Kiosk Mode plugin (that loads Kiosk mode by entering your URL with ?kiosk appended) so I can probably do away with that as well.
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The reset improved it drastically and I suspect the kids mode layer was eating a lot of resources so not setting that up made quite the difference.

Yeah I just downloaded the HA app and set it up normally. It moaned about the full version needing the store and to install minimal instead so I did that which doesn’t seem to have the same Kiosk options as on my iOS devices so not sure if it’s a version difference or an Android difference.

Still does the job and runs full screen happily.
 
SauRoNZA said:
The reset improved it drastically and I suspect the kids mode layer was eating a lot of resources so not setting that up made quite the difference.

Yeah I just downloaded the HA app and set it up normally. It moaned about the full version needing the store and to install minimal instead so I did that which doesn’t seem to have the same Kiosk options as on my iOS devices so not sure if it’s a version difference or an Android difference.

Still does the job and runs full screen happily.
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Great success.

At least they still have some use in the modern day. Now to build a nice wall mount for it and place it somewhere central.

This will be my next project: https://community.home-assistant.io...n-app-for-wall-mounted-tablets-android/702246
 
PhireSide said:
Great success.

At least they still have some use in the modern day. Now to build a nice wall mount for it and place it somewhere central.

This will be my next project: https://community.home-assistant.io...n-app-for-wall-mounted-tablets-android/702246
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Yeah I currently use an old Google Meet kit in my kitchen for HA but that’s a constant maintenance as every update seems to break the touchscreen driver and it also loses its mind with any power trip.

So I have two of these Fire’s the kids are now tired of so reckon one will replace that kitchen unit and then put the other one somewhere else in the house, maybe the passage or the main bedroom.

But if in the bedroom it definitely needs to be motion aware or support some form of timing.

Hmm, maybe even just keep it at my desk on the stand, then mounting and power isn’t such a hassle.
 
Muttley said:
Still amazed everyday at how Claude has improved my dashboards:
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If you then click on a particular day - it gives you this:

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My mind is totally blown!
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Did you use the a Claude plugin? I need to revisit mine, so many of the entities and customizations I have are redundant, just about every dashboard has missing entities.

These days everything is so automated, I don't really use the app or front-end.
 
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