New kiosk idea using Google Home Hub

[poblabs]

Just wanted to share something I came across today with using a Google Home Hub as a little kiosk. The way it works is using Home Assistant and creating a new dashboard view. The view type is 1 card, and the card is an iframe website card. Set the card to show your website.

Then use the Home Assistant cast dashboard service to cast the dashboard. Example:

service: cast.show_lovelace_view
data:
  entity_id: media_player.pat_desk_nesthub
  dashboard_path: lovelace
  view_path: wx

I guess next steps would be to adjust the CSS to make it look good.

In my spare time (which is almost none these days) 😄

[ThePeePs]

Could adjust the kiosk.html page to work for this, would only need to "shrink" the page a bit,. Or see if the hub can scale/zoom out the page to make it fit.

Do like the idea of using home assistant for it. I've been trying to think of ways of using the MQTT data to do "things" based on the archive loops. But i've got nothing yet (also just started playing with home assistant a month ago 😄

[gary-hammer]

Good idea.
Currently, I use a tablet and the PWA to just display the webpage.
I've been looking for an excuse to start with HA and have a better use for my Home Hub.

[lordratner]

This is super cool. It would make my Google Hub useful for once...

[ThePeePs]

I've been playing with panels and cards in Home Assistant as well. In doing some searching around, there is a Card Mod to enable scaling of cards. I haven't played with it yet, but looks like that might work for smaller display screens, like the Google Hub.