HOW TO - Create a Raspberry Pi Smart Home Kiosk (Home Assistant)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video I run through the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi kiosk for Home Assistant. I'm using the Sunfounder TS7 Pro kit in this video but the process will work for any connected screen or touchscreen for the Pi.
A smart home kiosk is a great way to glance at info and interact with your smart home.
Grab yourself a Pi, Grab a Touchscreen and give this a go!
Although I'm using the TS7 Pro, this video is not sponsored or related to Sunfounder.
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0:00 - Intro
0:17 - Todays Video
0:19 - What is a Kiosk?
0:49 - The TS7 Pro Kit (You can use any - doesn't need to be this one)
2:20 - Other bits of needed hardware
4:00 - Quick look at the TS7 Pro
4:50 - The Pi Imager
5:04 - Flashing our SSD
6:57 - SD Card Flash (SSD users only)
7:23 - EEPROM Update (Bootloader change)
8:28 - Commands to setup our Kiosk
13:51 - Home Assistant on the Kiosk
14:53 - Some Kiosk tips for Home Assistant
15:35 - Issues with this Kiosk
17:17 - Summary
17:41 - Outro
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I sure would like to see the other kiosks that you have used and how you've created your dashboards.
Thank you for yet another great video.
Really great tutorial. Love how you adress everything, without any BS.
I appreciate that! :)
Moving into a new home, this is going to be perfect!!
Worked perfect with an elo touchscreen monitor. Thank you for a great video and tutorial.
This was great Mark. Thanks!
Hey! Thanks so much for this video!
I would love to put a few of these around my house and run Room Assistant on all of them. That would be sweet!
I love the way you present your project , they are all well explained and detailed !
I will give it a try just for fun. I was looking to buy a tablet and put it on the wall, I will use this project to be my « pre-prod » and then use a tablet later on the wall.
Maybe more fun with this and I’ll go direct with a 24 touch screen ^^
Thank you! Really appreciate the feedback. I’m glad you enjoy the presentation style.
I think wall panels are great and I use a couple in my house. This little screen fits well on my desk but I have a plan to embed it in a Kallax unit (maybe a future video 🤪).
Deffo a fun one to play with :)
I already have some Ethernet switches hidden in some of my walls with some displate (metal poster) in front of the metal plate.
This is giving me some ideas. Just need to find a hack to shutdown the screen ( same as the sonoff ) and then you can have a more powerful devices in each important area that is not just an intel nuc hidden somewhere
It is a great project, worthy to try it, but it won't work and Home Assistant will never loaded in the screen. Slight details are still missing in the video.
Dear Mark, thanks for this video. Just completed and working. One tiny thing, i couldn't get it to boot properly unless i selected "Desktop autologin" from raspi-config. Again, excellent video and glad i can avoid paying for something like the kiosk browser. Keep up the great work.
Great instruction
Hi Mark, thanks for this video. I'm thinking of doing this project and i have a noob question; i'm wondering behind the reason of disabling the dpms and screen blanking? Thanks.
Dude I’ve been looking everywhere for a video that does exactly this. Got my kit on the way.
I saw another video where a guy just plugged in an external ssd but I’ll probably go for the Nvme approach looks tidier. 😊
Thanks for this vid. I’ll be back to follow along. Cheers
Thank you for the video, I installed HA from etcher with its default like. my hardware looks similar to this, is it possible to get to the screen from terminal? thank you
Thank you very much for this video! Have you tried streaming from a camera connected to the kiosk and gpio ports? I can't find how to do it.
Another great video. Thinking I should sell some of my spare pi
Sitting on a gold mine haha
Haven't finished the video yet but running this and room assistant could work pretty nicely if using multiple ones, would be a good follow up video!
+1 for the room assistant followup
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Mark. Love your video and content. Can you do a video about esphome ir remote climate? Step by step for dummies like me.
Do you have a tutorial for running HA on the same Raspberry Pi, I have a Pi4 8GB? Thank you for your videos
Man.. I love you!
Hi man. Very good job explaining this. It's now working fine for me. Only thing i want to see changed is how to hide the side scroll bar. I know it's in your instructions , but that's for the 7 inch touchscreen. I'm using a 15 inch hdmi screen. So can you please explain me what i need to do?
Ok, beautyfull guide, thank you, but, is there a way to add video output, not just a terminal on a home assistant device (pc or raspberry with HAOS)? My target is use only one device to monitoring my home an show it on a display. Thanks
Hello, very good video as always.
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running on an SSD and I would like to know, what should I configure if I decide to buy this display?
I hope I have made myself understood.
Thanks in advance.
Regards from Dominican Republic.
How can I edit the whole menu system to my own? Is there any program like squareline studio or lvgl? I would like to make a GUI for a terrarium (temperature, humidity,light, co2 control). Thank you :)
Great tutorial but I still want to know procedure on home assistant to shutdown remote pi using shell command.
Got it up and running straight away thank you. What would be the process in adding pinhole to the kiosk pi?
Glad you got it working :)
For Pi Hole or other services you could just install them as background services.
I've rarely seen this approach with the open box configs work out of the box, including with this setup on a fresh RiPi 5. Curious why not use sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart which should always work out of the box?
Is it possible to modify the NSPanel using alternative software so that it can display information from the Homeassistant dashboard from the PV infenter? I would like the NSpanel to display information about the battery charge status and current power?
Hi mark, thanks for the video. Can I ask you how did you set the width of the columns of your dashboard so that the two columns are not split 50% each? Thanks!
Thanks dude.
That dashboard is a nice and simple one and it’s actually part of standard HA. It’s just an alternate dashboard view type called sidebar. It’s the same one that’s used in Energy Dashboards.
Would this project be possible with a Pi Zero?
Can it be used in Wifi? Or do you need the Ethernet cable?
Possible with nvidia jetson orin nano
Another awesome video Mark that will see my tied up in the lab for another 3 days! Would you mind sharing your code for the shell command that reboots a Pi?
Thanks Peter. It’s a fun little project with lots of possibilities.
I will add it to my todo list for the morning and update you when it’s done 👌🏻.
@@MarkWattTech Thank you. I've wanted to periodically reboot a Pi from HA but it's always stumped me.
Hey Pete. I've just updated the GitHub file for this tutorial. It's linked in the description. I've added the command and also found a written guide (linked in the document) for the process which will give more info if you need it.
If you need anymore help etc give me a shout and I'll do my best to get back to you.
Cheers.
@@MarkWattTech Legend Mark, thank you!
Amazing. I have done this with a 15 inch touchscreen and works wonderfully. The only thing that I have a question on now is how to setup a screensaver. On my kindles that I use Fully Kiosk Browser on I can put on a screensaver with a slideshow of pictures. How can we do that on this?
i would search on google or on youtube as a lot of people cant be botherd to reply to youre comment
Hi Mark thanks for the great video, I have the Raspberry Pi official 7 inch display could I use that for the project? I didn't want to spend any more money and have yet another monitor, please let me know if this is possible? and anything I need to know to get the Raspberry 7 inch screen to work correctly, thanks for a great looking project
Heya :)
This should work with any touchscreen setup. Deffo best to make use of parts than buying new ones :)
Nice video Mark. Regarding blanking the screen. You can use Hacs Browser mod but I've found you get the faint glow that doesn't get approval from the wife. If you can find a more suitable way to dim the screen with maybe a python script, they'd be a fair few of us that would be grateful
I did think of that but haven’t given it a go. This screen I’m using has physical buttons that allow you to control brightness so I was going to see if I could hook into that.
Other than that ive just been shutting the pi down with shell commands. Im still working on this project so potentially another video in the future with better tips and ideas :)
What I'd like to see is a smaller form factor, like an iPod Touch to mount next to bedroom doorways. Ideally, it would have an ESP32-WROVER running ESPresence for room tracking and squeeze-lite for network audio. The minimalist Home Assistant companion app would be perfect for this kind of device. I was hoping to pick up an Android iPod Touch clone cheap but not even Apple are making one anymore 😭
a Sonoff NS Panel can help you out with that!
I feel like a 50-80 dollar phone might be a better option in many ways for the sort of things a small control panel would be used for. Keeping control panels and sensors separate as much as possible feels better to me than integrating them into a single monolithic system, even if that system is modular.
If you can 3D print whatever case you want, you can always make room behind the phone for an ESPhome, or even a pi zero, doing whatever you need to do in the sensor range.
Has anyone a idea how to rotate the display & touch interface on a connected generic touch screen? And thank you mark for the absolute detailed instructions
Heya :) for screen rotation you will need to add a little accelerometer. You can get one for the gpio pins. This will allow you to rotate the screen and have it automatically switch orientation.
Originally this vide was actually on 3 Diy Kiosks and I actually show that but it was super long 🙈.
Setup everything with your guide yesterday. And it does seem to be more responsive than my previous Ubuntu desktop approach (no surprise there). A quick little section at the end of the video for bonus fancy features would be cool. Personally I don’t mind longer videos as long as they are structured. As for rotation I managed to rotate the picture via ssh but I still have to find a way to rotate the touch method with this installation. It’s hard to find because most instructions reference the old method with rp3s and older.
Where did you installed home assistant ? Do you have another pc for home assistant? Can you put everything on one pi?
Those Chinese android panels people are installing in their cars is just about perfect for this, they don't have a battery, so you can power them directly and the have convenient mounting points as well, they even come in different sizes, heck you can even run a speaker system if you want.
Everything worked for all the installs but when it reboots it says ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, does anyone know why I'm getting this error
hi, i get a ssl error when it launch HA. how can i fix this problem?
it works!!but.. with a 4k monitor and raspberry pi 4,its very laggy!! 2-3 fps , and I don't know why! ty
Worked at the first try! Thanks a lot!
Only issue I have is that the screen has a very low response with the touch imput, I have to apply a lot of pressure to it to detect anything and it's almost impossible to scroll on the screen.
Glad you got it working :)
Which screen did you use?
Hahahahaha he said "depending on the pi you get..." LOL
Anyone know how to change the resolution of the kiosk ? I use a screen with a resolution of 320*480 (Pixel).
Thx for any help :)
Hi Mark
You instructions worked to perfection and now I have a kiosk!
If you send the command below the screen will be dimmed. Valid values are 0-255. 20 that I use is the best for me
The brightness folder might be in a different location but it is easy to find.
sudo bash -c "echo 20 > /sys/class/backlight/10-0045/brightness"
Thank you very much! This was something I planned on looking at when I revisited the project. I’ll be sure to give it a go.
@@MarkWattTech I tried it on my setup and it worked without problems
@markwatttech Firstly brilliant video. Everything seemed to go to plan but I’m not getting the Home Assistant login screen. It’s just a grey screen. I’ve checked the url and all seems to be good there. Any idea what this could be? Any help would be massively appreciated. Cheers
I have completed all the steps but when I restart the pi with sudo reboot it goes to the web page but then I get the message: This site can't be reached. As far as I know, you only installed Raspberry PI OS and not Home Assistant, right? Do you also have to download Home Assistant somewhere or what?
Add the camera and face recognition! Have the dashboard change based on the user that's infront of it.
That would be really cool. And not too tricky to do 😯
@@MarkWattTech Part 2? :P
if you can manage the security cameras from this kiosk will be awesome option
With the kiosk you could access feeds directly or you could access them through HA :)
Hi. Great video. I just have a minor problem with that. I set everything up correctly, but when I turn it on, I don't see the homeassistant login box, but it says that it refuses to connect to that page. Can't I have an error, for example, in KIOSK_URL? I normally put the IP address of the raspberry pi there.
I have the same issue. I sat everything up correctly but home assistant never accept to load into TS7 pro touch screen 'the kiosk' at all. I have repeated the setup over 3 times but with the same issue. Hopefully Mark will provide us with further steps and clear guidance to resolve this issue.
It's because this video doesn't explain how to install HA, it assumes you have it installed in another host machine.
Hi Mark!
Glad to see you're back.
I had a question regarding this setup. In the video you use a dedicated Pi for running the Kiosk.
Would it be possible to run the kiosk on the same Pi as Home Assistant?
If so, would you recommend avoid doing that due to performance issues or something else?
Thanks mate!
Ultimately it depends on what and how you are running your HA instance. I wouldn't really advise using the kiosk setup on the same Pi running HA but again it entirely depends on your setup and how taxing your smart home is for the Pi.
Thanks @@MarkWattTech !
Hi mark, is there any way to code the pi to dim on curtain time and brighten it up during the day?😅
What's curtain time? :P
With some screens you can use commands to physically change the brightness. I haven't tried on this set one though (although I think you can).
Another great vid, but the video and sound seem to be lagging each other, same as the last vid 🤔 all my other youtube vid seem fine?
Thanks for letting me know Shane. I will have to look into the sync issue and do some tests 👍🏻.
I literally went away on a camping holiday when this posted. Is the issue through out?
@@MarkWattTech I never noticed it before, I just had a quick look at previous vids, and it looks like it started on the "This Smart Valve Saved me money" vid. It could just be me 😛 maybe see if anyone else thinks the sync is slightly off 👍 Videos are still 100% watchable.
@@irelandshane1984 I have recently changed all of my setup so it could potentially be from that. Again I will have a look for the next one.
Appreciate the feedback 👌🏻😄
Hey Mark, Can I add this screen to a pi already running HA or do I need another pi ?
If your running HA OS then no. But otherwise you can. Just bare in mind it will be more load on the Pi :) a dedicated Pi would be best. This could also be done with a Pi Zero for a more form factor look (may be a little sluggish if you have a big setup though).
Hope that helps :)
How or what did you use to get your cameras grid to display like that? Mine are large and can only fit 2 horizontal.
Hey Joey. Which part do you mean sorry?
I think your after the grid card. It’s built into HA natively. You can specify how many columns and rows you want
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for the reply! I'm impressed with your camera layout. I noticed you had room temps overlaid as well as a motion icon for each camera. That is what I was referring to. I did play with grids upon grids upon grids to get their view size down but now am curious how you got the temp overlays and motion indicators. At 4:32 in your video.
hey, so Im very new to home assistant, am I right in thinking, that the PI in your video just logs into via the web UI of another PI running home assistant?
this is also my understanding
Does the screen power the Pi ? (or vice versa) Or does this setup require 2 power supplies ? Thanks.
Hey Tim, one power cable. The Pi passes power through to the screen.
Cheers :)
The final price is crazy !! a cheap tablet with fully kiosk is waaaay enough... With this no way to put 3 in your house ^^
Pi OS lite (64 bit) doesn't seem to have an audio system installed. How can I get audio from HA to play thru the HDMI 0 cable into the speakers of the 7" tablet?
Fixed: "sudo apt install alsa", and in /boot/firmware/config.txt commented out # dtparam=audio=on
Reboot.
Now sound works!
Then I set up mpd with:
"sudo apt install alsa-utils mpd"
and in /etc/mpd.conf, uncomennted out the "audio_output" section for type "alsa".
Then enabled mpd with:
"sudo systemctl enable mpd"
In HA, configuation.yaml, I added the following entry, (set your IP and Name as needed.)
media_player:
- platform: mpd
name: "Kiosk1 speakers"
host: [ ip address of Kiosk Pi.]
Now I can access the kiosk as a Media Player in HA.
Automations got real easy after this.
Funny story I tried this twice and my rasbery pi screen just loads into the terminal each time after boot. Don't receive any error though
Can I use raspberry pi Pico W for this project?
I wouldn’t recommend a Pico for this 😬
Where would you place one of these? and what kind of enclosure would you put it in? 🤔
I've put a 7" in my wall beside the frontdoor. also a pi with a 7" touch screen. But with auto-login because I don't want a keyboard there. I've done the login via xdotool. you can take a look in my video about on 20:36.
great job ,im stuck (this site can not be reached (ip,,,,,refused to connect)) please help
Which part are you stuck on?
@@MarkWattTechi have done every thing as you have mentioned its opens a web browser but it does not show the dashboard on the pi screen ,says can not connect (refused to connect ).as if the web site is down
Worked great, THX! However, HomeAssistant is always upside down, even with the flag "lcd_rotate=2" set. The bootup screen is now correct, but as soon as Chromium launches, its back to upside down. Am i missing something?
Same issue here
Any suggestions ?
This is how I fix my issue
add this to /boot/cmdline.txt, keeping everything on one line, then reboot.
video=DSI-1:800x600M,margin_right=0,margin_left=0,margin_top=0,margin_bottom=0,rotate=180
sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
And add Option "TransformationMatrix" "-1 0 1 0 -1 1 0 0 1" in the relevant touchscreen section, so that section looks like:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
Option "TransformationMatrix" "-1 0 1 0 -1 1 0 0 1"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
EndSection
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
and add
lcd_rotate=2
@@lugopc Thank you so much for the follow up, really appreciate it! Will try it out later today!
i applied this guide on a raspberry 3 but when i install chronium , after reboot the cpu fixed on 100% and all system are freezed.
Are you connecting wired or wireless? I use this exact setup with Pi3s and 4s with no problems.
My screen starts but my HA dont start it seems. I get "This site can't be reached".
What can be wrong?
Are you using your internal IP address? :)
I'm also facing the Same issue, which says "No internet". Kindly help me fix this
@@MarkWattTech I am using internal IP, something is wrong with my SSL it seems.
Date and time is correct and I have reinstalled SSL.
Why do you need to have a full size SSD drive? couldnt you just use a flash drive or SD Card?
SSDs typically have more storage, are faster and have better reliability. The read life of them is also much longer than a standard SD card.
Where is home assistant running from, another raspberry pi or pc in the background?
Heya. Yeah so HA runs on another machine. This pi just points chrome at it. You could do it all on the same pi but it will obviously eat up some of your processing.
Whats nice about this design is you can interface with HA and if you wanted to you could run additional services to connect to your HA machine (Pi hole etc, media servers etc)
Oh...so the home assistant is not installed on this Raspberry connected to the screen?
This basically just points at your existing HA setup. If you wanted to you could install HA on it and then have the same pi point to the instance and use the screen. Its extra processing and resource for your pi to mange though.
@@MarkWattTech do you think a pi can handle it or it's better to have 2 different pi?
It's sad how connectors (hdmi etc) make solutions really complicated to pack and make them beautiful...
Why not to buy RPi ready screen with housing? at least it will not looks ugly ... Ive used one and it power it self and power RPi ... it has touch screen and audio over HDMI ... only one wire to power up it
I have one if those for the next one :P
Would be easier to use a cheap tablet, work better too.
Easier yes. Works better… no
I’ve used many tablets as HA wallpanels. The Pi is by far the best thing to use. Its form factor is the main issue
I'd probably prefer to stick with the older 10" Samsung tablet. This design has a really low wife approval factor in my case. 💁♂
I don’t think I would wall mount these just because of the profile. But in a fancy case or in a picture frame design on a side/shelf it would definitely work :)
This could also be done with a Zero W for a more form factor design.
That's a bit overkill. If you're gonna use a Pi 4, you might as well make it *run* home assistant...
Brand new rpi4b completely unresponsive. Shows google search and that’s it. No HA. Can’t even get to the command prompt. ALT+F4 goes to blank screen and stuck. Will completely wipe this project and start again with the pi so so I can actually do something. So far I can’t recommend this.
Ummmm un tablet è molto meglio. Non che bisogno di tutti sti sbattimenti. Pure per il costo un tablet costa molto di meno del tuo progetto.☺️😉✌️
Mark, I really appreciate your videos. But this one... Just stopped watching when you started to trying to justify the cost. Everything noted in the video is still more than double the price a year ago. Not even worth it. I think the justifications provided are a big stretch for this project. But kudos none the less for providing an interesting tutorial.
Heya. I totally agree about the prices. I did mention in my post that this project is only really ideal if you already have parts etc lying around.
From an economic point of view, it can't be justified. From a "let's push this button and see what happens" point of view however..... 🙂
I think we should be honest with ourselves. Raspberry Pi has let us down. I no longer focus on our beloved Pis. Mini computers, esp32s, etc, etc. Everything except Pis. I can now buy as many gpus as I want, but a simple Pi...?
Sorry, just to help me understand, was the frustration over the supply of raspberry pi? Or something else?
@@ShaamanRyu Yes, it's hard to see something you love degrade itself. Every time someone asks me what to buy, I tell them to buy a pre-owned Dell, HP, or Lenovo mini computer. Those 1 liter computers are more powerful and cost the same. Still, I'd rather recommend a Raspberry Pi. The RPi is more energy efficient and I think you can learn more from a first install with a Raspberry Pi. But if they can't buy one, there's a chance that users will never get to know the RPi. They will never have the tinkering experience. That's hard for me. I want people to grow their knowledge.
@@EdoDijkgraaf just out of curiosity, do those ASUS tinker board things work?
@@EdoDijkgraaf how is it “degrade themselves” when the problem is just they’ve become so popular they can’t make enough of them?
@@JasperJanssen waiting six months for a sbc is not the result of proper planning. A while ago, all brands faced supply chain issues. How come I can buy almost any gpu at msrp now? Unless I'm willing to pay €114.99 for a $15.00 Zero 2 W on Amazon, I'll have to wait until the end of November. I love Raspberry Pi, but if I can't trust them to deliver I have to search for alternatives.
Hi Mark, I have directly implemented the project has worked great, you have explained it perfectly. Thank you very much! Is there a way to jump to another website If there a idle time 20sec.. In my case to Dakboard (as screensaver) and jump back to Home Assistant at activity? redirect-url -t 20