Kiosk Mode in Home Assistant - How To - The Right Way!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Kiosk mode in Home Assistant is useful if you want to run Home Assistant on a tablet on the wall. It is also useful if you only want to give certain people in the house access to one dashboard and you want to hide the top and side menus. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up kiosk mode in Home Assistant and how you can quickly switch between kiosk mode and normal mode yourself by means of shielded buttons on your dashboard. Let’s get started right away!
Note:
I use Mushroom cards and the Navigate tap action to navigate between different tabs. If you use kiosk: true, the tabs are not shown anymore. If you'd like your tablet to still show the tabs in a dashboard, then you can use hide_header: false and hide_sidebar: true instead of kiosk: true.
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00:00 Introduction
01:40 Install Kios Mode Integration
02:14 Activate Kiosk Mode in Home Assistant
03:16 Watch Kiosk Mode
03:34 Create buttons to enable or disable Kiosk Mode
06:26 Test the buttons
06:59 Activate the Kiosk on and off button
07:54 Hide the buttons for non-administrators
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As a new user to Home Assistant your videos have been extremely helpful! You have learned me a lot and I have become more than a "ordinary user" thanks to you. Thank you! 😀
You tutorials are amazing, clear audio, clear instructions very informative, clear video and you explain everything very well without overloading with information. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, very much appreciated!!
Thank you for your compliments! 🙏🏻
Hello, your are one of the best of Hass teacher. All your videos are clear, simple and easy to do on our personal configs of Hass. Thank you for that
Thank you for this BIG compliment. 🙏🏻
After a ridiculous number of hours trying to work it out, after watching many of your videos, I got what I needed in 20 minutes. Thank you SOOO much for all of the hard work that you do to make these wonderful home assistant videos.
Thank you so much for your kind words.
Thanks, another good home assistant TH-cam tutor. This will help me a lot.
Thank you very much. I am setting up my first wall mounted tablet controller and this is exactly what I needed to get my display looking right and lock it down for random users. Have a GREAAAAAAAAAAAAAT day! 🤓
That's great to hear! Have a great day too!
Hi, how did you lock it dows for a random user ?
Thank you. Really easy video to follow. Powerful stuff!
Thanks for the tutorial. Fantastic . I have learned what would have taken me a whole day.
I didn't know him but he has one more subscriber from Spain
Thank you for this video!
I was looking for something specific on this. Now I gotta try it out so ther rest of family slowly gets into my freaky home assistant world
Cheers!
Thank you for posting this. It has helped me to set up my Nexus 7 tablet as a wall-mounted cooker controller. 👍🏻
That's great to hear!
Ik ben heel benieuwd naar je dashboard ziet er heel mooi en overzichtelijk uit!
Now you can create the “Kiosk Mode” yourself for your tablet or your other family members. Let me know in the comments if it worked.
does the code still work and do I have to pay 4 euros to use the code?
@@tonysanderson7741 Yes, it still works. You can choose to copy the code from the screen for free, or if you want to save yourself some time, download it by sponsoring my work.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks
Will kiosk mode stop working at every New update ?
@@theattorney6072 Hahaha. It really shouldn't. A lot of things stopped working after the latest update 2023.4. It was not specifically kiosk mode related.
Brilliant, perfectly paced and well presented Thank you so much
Very nice Ed, I watched the video twice
One for the configuration and one for the montage 👌🏻,
I was in the first focusing on the configuration and forget the video editing 😂
(((chapeau bas)))👍🏻
Thank you Sevag!
Great video Ed. Thanks for answering my question from yesterdays live stream (even before I asked it)
Great that you were there Tony! I think we had a great stream with a lot of questions answered.
Thanks for the shoutouts! I really hope the state-switch GUI is not too far away, but who can tell…
Thank you Thomas for all the incredible work you've done on Home Assistant! It's really awesome.
Thanks Tomas to creating this awesome tweaks and of course big thanks to Ed to highlight and explain it for us
Thank you for this great video! Keep up the good work 🙏🏻
Thank you Maarten!
Best of the best as always.Thanks from Greece
Thank you!
Your videos are the best! You have a great way of explaining things
Thank you so much for your compliment. I really appreciate that you took the time to respond. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great video! Thanks so much!
Thank you for a great video!
Brilliant! Many thanks!
I've seen a lot of your videos. Your channel is legit.
Thank you Richard!
Great video. One hint: Visibility of cards is now a basic feature of Hass since 2024.6
Great! Let me try it tomorrow!!
Thanks Ed, I make a comment yesterday but it disappeared I think is google issue,
Anyway the video is so good and very helpful to my question on the livestream and the video montage is awesome man thanks thanks 🙏
Been waiting to set this up for a long time - thanks for the great tutorial!!
You're welcome!
Thank you. made this so simple - thanks for the code too...
Thank you for your support!
Very useful! Thanks!
Great video. Like this type of stuff. Johnny
Excellent video. Thanks
Thank you for your kind words!
Quiet useful one thank you
Thanks. This is an interesting topic. There's a lot I can do with it ;)
Great to hear!
I tried my best and could not get it working despite you excellent video.
Thanks! This one was good, like the other one! Keep going.😉
Thanks for the compliment. I will definately try to do so!
@@SmartHomeJunkie I also discovered the blog version today in order to follow the tutorial! 🙏
Nice video! Well done!
Thank you very much!
thanks for the very helpful videos. Question, how do you get the 5 buttons at the top???
Every home assistant project: "if you follow this tutorial, it's not that bad" :) That's why we keep coming back!
Thanks, your video helped me a lot! 🚀🥳
Thank you for your kind words, I'm grateful that I could provide valuable information for you.
Nice one! I am sure going to give this a try. One quick other question, which dashboard cards are you using in this tutorial to show both the light status and the room temperature in one card?
I believe you mean the Mushroom Template card.
THANK YOU again your videos are really well done and I am learning a lot of new things ...
1) when I am in the kiosk mode as a user ..... how can I go back to that administrator if I don't have the keys ??? i'm locked as a user .. i can't go back ...
2) how can I decide which page of lovelace is viewed at start up in kiosmode .... and how can I scroll through the various pages?
Thx. Add ?disable_km to the end of your URL to disable kioskmode if you are a user
Your second question can be solved by using Mushroom cards. There is an option in the mushroom cards to go to specific urls. You can use the page urls there.
Dankjewel Ed voor deze duidelijke video
Graag gedaan Rob!
Thanks for this!
Nice work and well explained. What (free) app would you suggest to use for an older iPad Air (like Fully Kiosk) ?
The app that I use is called "Kiosk browser". It does not have the same functionalities as Fully Browser, unfortunately. But that's what you get if it's free I guess :)
Excellent. Very clear and concise. However, what about when using picture elements card in kiosk mode with View Type set to Panel? Panel only supports one card. I have a workaround with a defined tap area on the picture but it's not really admin only.
Interesting! I didn't try that yet. Will give it a go. I am currently setting up a new tablet dashboard and am experimenting with various cards. This will also be a video in the near future.
Thank you ❤️
Great tutorial thank you.
I'm glad it helped you!
Very helpful, thank you👍👌
You're welcome! I'm glad I could save you from watching another boring tutorial.
HI, thanks for your tutorials, they're great!
Is it possible to hide only 2 in a series of Chip Cards, with state-switches?
I tried but I couldn't!
Thank you 🙏🏻
great video, thank you for that! I have tried it, not sure whether i am missing something or HA has changed, but as non-admin user i am able to see left menu in kiosk mode.
I guess you missed something. It works here.
@@SmartHomeJunkie you were right, i was missing hide_sidebar: true
Vielen Dank für das Video, gerade für Neusteiger Klasse! Bedankt voor de video, vooral voor nieuwkomers! i
Wow, thanks for the double thank you! I'm thrilled that you enjoyed the video and found it helpful, especially for newcomers. It's always great to hear positive feedback. Stay tuned for more awesome content coming your way!
Thanks Ed. Very informative, clear and concise, as always. Can this kiosk mode be applied to Dwain's Dashboard somehow?
Hi Vidarg, I do not know how you can do this with Dwains Dashboard unfortunately.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks for replying. My yaml isn't great, but *something* in those files has to dictate DD's look and layout, one would think. I'll ask over at the forums someday.
Hi great tutorial as always. One question unless I missed something, if the device is logged in with a normal user how would you switch users to yourself as an administrator or would you have to restart the device with a manual button. Thanks
You can add the following code to the url to bypass kiosk mode:?disable_km
Thanks!
Thank you for your support!
Does this also work when the „normal user“ is using the Home Assistant Companion App (e.g on iOS)? Thank you!
Thank you for this great video!
I have a question can we use Kiosk Mod With Dwains Dashboard? I do not want users to use the sidebar. ore there another way to hide the sidebar with Dwains Dashboard
This is a good question. Currently, I do not know a way how to do this with Dwains Dashboard because he uses a custom approach to build a dashboard, which is different than how Home Assistant normally works.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Damn....I have spent hours making my Dwains Dashboard just like I want it to put on a table for the house to use and to now find out I cant lock anyone out of all the controls!!!
Thanks for the inspiration to finally make kiosk mode work. Unfortunately a helper is a global variable. This means it switches the mode. on all clients.
Can you think of a way at least to make it personal meaning different for every user?
Thaaks in advance
Yes, that is true. The video shows how to make a difference between admins and normal users. But it also shows how you can hide things per user using the state switch. See the documentation of the state switch.
@@SmartHomeJunkie
Thanks for answering.
But I really don‘t know what to do with that. I fact I have rather not found any documentation of HA that made much sense to me. I find documenting a programming interface by samples is really frustrating.. What i read about the state switch is just confusing.
Great video as usual! What is the best way to use this on the tablet? With the official HA app or with a sort of kiosk browser? Any good Android solutions?
The best solution is Fully Kiosk browser on Android.
@@SmartHomeJunkie thank you! Will try using that!
@@SmartHomeJunkieThanks for the tutorial and recommending full kiosk browser. I don't know if it will work for me, as I'm already encountering problems like - no keyboard on the login screen, but that's probably to be figured out.
The problems I see after your tutorial:
1. how to user(non-admin) limit visibility only to Kiosk dashboard on HA app in android? now non-admin user can see has the ability to go to any other item from side menu like: grafana, ESP home, VSC etc.
2. how to implement such a scenario: restart android-> user enters phone PIN -> after logging into the phone should start HA kiosk and no more
3. once we have the Kiosk mode fired up, how can we control the screen blanking? I mean, in HA we have some entities indicating the presence of the user in the house - and only then I want to display the screen, if the user is not at home - blank the screen.
Thank you
Ah, the sweet sound of gratitude! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment. You're the best!
Great tutorial (like all yours), though the kiosk mode work on my main phone and not on the other old one that I'd like to use on a wall. Both phones have the same HA versions installed, but the Android versions differ (v. 10 vs. 7). Might this be the case?
Android 7 is pretty old now... I can't see what that would effect it, but it could be the issue.
Have you tried loading the dashboard in a web browser instead? Might be a bit harder to lock down, but could possibly give some clues to the problem.
Hopefully it gets fixed soon, I really loved Kiosk Mode
Me too!
What is the problem with it now ? You still see the dashboard with menus right ?
@@theattorney6072 No, you shouldn't. The HACS integration is updated. Make sure you use the right repository. There's another one that is discontinued.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thx for the reply, but I did not understand what you Said ... I shouldn't update or I shouldn't see the dashboard if I update ? Yes I Saw the hacs update, and also a kiosk update that I didn't do. Could you please clarify what should be done now to have this working properly ? Many thanks.
@@theattorney6072 Hi! You should update the integration in HACS. After this update it should work fine again.
Hello Sir, super explain, quick question may I install and use kiosk browser on the android tablet without home assistant?
Yes, no problem!
@SmartHomeJunkie Thank you, I keep watching your vlogs. There are so many positive, useful things. In the future, I dlike to start using the home assistant, im new on this topic, and now I am looking for the pc. Thanks again 👍
Thanks for the videos, they are very useful for beginners like me. I followed the steps and succeeded in everything except the last code. After replacing the code as in the video, I saved and refreshed, when I press the button I get this error: "No entity provided for more info dialog" Any advice? Thanks in advance.
I have no idea. Never saw this error message before. 🤷🏼
@@SmartHomeJunkie Another one. On my smartphone "state switch" and "mushroom" work normal, but on my tablet they don't and I get the error message "Custom element doesn't exist: state-switch" and same for mushroom-control-panel-card. Any ideea?
Hi does this still work? I installed it and set it up following your instructions and the top menu bar and side menu is still there but the cards have been moved up to the top so now the top menu is covering the cards. After having it up a few mins the cards go back down in their normal location but not in kiosk mode
Good morning, is it possible to activate the screen using motion detection from the tablet camera in this integration?
Great video as always !
Personally (and perhaps interesting for others) I use these settings :
user_settings:
- users:
- tablet
kiosk: true
mobile_settings:
hide_header: true
Settings for a certain user(s) and for mobile devices.
I've followed your tutorial and it works exactly as expected. Thank you.
in my use case, I have a series of chips across the top of my dashboard that I use as navigation. I'd like to add the kiosk mode chip to this but have that chip only show for admin users and be hidden for non-admin users. I believe this is what you did with your Stats and Server buttons, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to hide only the one chip. Can you please help?
This is the yaml for my navigation. The last entry is my kiosk mode button.
type: custom:mushroom-chips-card
chips:
- type: action
tap_action:
action: navigate
navigation_path: /dashboard-mushroom/0
hold_action:
action: none
double_tap_action:
action: none
icon: mdi:home
- type: action
tap_action:
action: navigate
navigation_path: /dashboard-mushroom/living-room
hold_action:
action: none
double_tap_action:
action: none
icon: mdi:sofa
- type: action
tap_action:
action: navigate
navigation_path: /dashboard-mushroom/bedroom
hold_action:
action: none
double_tap_action:
action: none
icon: mdi:bed-king
- type: action
tap_action:
action: navigate
navigation_path: /dashboard-mushroom/bathroom
hold_action:
action: none
double_tap_action:
action: none
icon: mdi:paper-roll
- type: action
tap_action:
action: navigate
navigation_path: /dashboard-mushroom/dining-room
hold_action:
action: none
double_tap_action:
action: none
icon: mdi:table-furniture
- type: action
tap_action:
action: navigate
navigation_path: /dashboard-mushroom/kitchen
hold_action:
action: none
double_tap_action:
action: none
icon: mdi:fridge
- type: action
tap_action:
action: none
hold_action:
action: none
double_tap_action:
action: none
icon: mdi:lightbulb
icon_color: accent
- type: action
tap_action:
action: call-service
service: input_boolean.toggle
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.kiosk_mode
icon: mdi:arrow-expand-vertical
alignment: justify
I believe the latest mushroom update adds the possibility to hide and show chips based on the user now.
kiosk_mode:
non_admin_settings:
kiosk: true
ignore_entity_settings: true
Kiosk Mode is working fine and was before watching this video, but I was curious about the helper and toggle button. It does absolutely nothing for me. I can see when clicking it that the helper is toggled on and off, but it doesn't seem to actually be linked to anything.
Obrigado.
Mi placer ☺️
Hey Ed ! The YT link at the bottom of the companion web page is broken. Thought you might want to know. 😉
Thank you for pinting that out! I fixed it!
Hello, thx for this. Unfortunately i can't find kiosk mode on entities when I try to create the button. Did I do something wrong ? it just says no corresponding entity ...
I reply to myself, i skiped a step (creating the helper).
Thanks for the pointers on how to set user access with Kiosk Mode, though you did miss configuring the dashboard resources, also a full HA restart is required to install the front end integrations. Hopefully this information will avoid others spending hours on determining why the video guide doesn't work as-is.
I don't think I missed it to be honest...
@@SmartHomeJunkie I beg to differ, I have re-watched this many times and you never once mentioned to check that the frontend resources had been configured. The Kiosk Mode needed manual configuration but the state-switch was automatically configured, luckily the installation instructions provided the neccessary information.
@@MikeBookham As far as I recall, the frontend resources shouldn't have to be configured as an additional step. Not sure why you had to do this. Nobody mentioned this before. This video is watched a lot and kiosk mode is implemented based on this video by lot of people. 🤷🏼♂️
@@SmartHomeJunkie I fully agree that the Kiosk Mode frontend resources shouldn't have to be manually configured, if they had been I would have got to bed several hours before 01:30am this morning 🤣
@@MikeBookham Haha! I'm curious about your setup. It's always interesting to hear from other people what they come across and why it works differently from my setup.
Any idea for to setup and custom sidebar for rooms or areas please.
This does not exist as far as I know 🤷🏼
@@SmartHomeJunkie do u DBuit/sidebar-card? thats what am talking about
Congratulations for the tutorial, but I have a problem with the button to hide the top bar, if I click nothing happens. I have checked the code several times but everything is correct, what can it be?
There must be something different. 🤷🏼
Als ik de regel "non_admin_settings:" weg haal hebben dan ook huisgenoten zonder admin account een werkende button?
I followed tutorial and it works fine. There is just one issue. On my dashboard I have three views. When Kiosk mode is on, only default view is visible. Other two are not. Is it possible to allow them to be accessible?
You can choose to not hide the top menu.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I found it in meanwhile, instead of using
kiosk:false
i used
hide_header:false
hide_sidebar: true
That way header stays visible.
@@epedja That is correct!
Nice video, I followed all the instructions in the video, but in Kiosk mode only a tab (view) of my dashboard overview is shown. How do I show all my tabs (views) in Kiosk mode?
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but in Kiosk mode you shouldn't see any tab anymore 🤔
You can also choose to not use kiosk mode, but choose hide_header and hide_sidebar instead. This way, you can only hide the sidebar. See the Kiosk integration manual for that.
I use the mushroom cards and switch between tabs using the Navigate tap action. Then you do not need the tabs anymore. I guess you are not using that. In that case you can use the hide_header:true option instead of the kiosk:true option.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Ok
@@JoseBerruezo Thank you for pointing that out. I'be added this to the description in the video and the blog post now too. 🙏🏻
Can I use the Kiosk mode and use a Grafana dashboard rather than a lovelace dashboard?
Unfortunately, this is not easy to do. I "think" you might be able to do this if you can show a Grafana dashboard within an on your dashboard, but I did not look into this before.
Ed, for some reason the chip for ACTION is not working for me..... I get an error stating that "fail to call service input_boolean/toggle. must contain at least one of entity_id, device_id, area_id. .......However, I do have the Kiosk Mode entity added in the chip action....."input_boolean.kiosk_mode" generated from the helper.
I am not sure where I can send you a picture or the code for better troubleshooting...... This should be straightforward but I am missing something. Let me know if it is very obvious. Thanks (Miguel)
If you copy the code from the download link in the description, it should work.
Please clarify; the code used in the video must be purchased?
Yes, you can type it from the screen of purchase it.
is there a way to play sound on my tablet through automation etc?
I only use that with my Google Home speakers / Hub.
Hi SHJ Vraagje, wat zou je adviseren als tablet iPad of Android?
Android
Thank you so much for this but the topbar stays visible ?
It shouldn't. Be sure to update to the latest version of the Kiosk integration in HACS. There have been some issues but everything is fixed.
thx found it
Wow
The kiosk mode stopped working just now, on update 2023.4.0
See the pinned comment and the description. It will be fixed asap by the developer.
I wrote te exact same code in the exact same doc , and it didn't work . Do you might have any idea why?
I guess there must be something different in your code.
the code is infact - not in the description.
I did this as admin as I am the only user logged in now I have lost the three button (top right). Help please.
Add this to the URL of Home Assistant and Kiosk Mode is disabled in that session:
?disable_km
It works on my Desktop PC but not on my mobile.
On my Desktop I can hide the menu above but in the mobile app on my android phone nothing happens if I click on the same button. Does anybody here has the same problem?
I must be blind here but I dont see any code in the description (apart from a link which asks for 2euros for the code)
That is correct. I changed the conditions over time.
Unfortunately this didn't work for me. I followed the guide succesfully but activating the kiosk button on and off didn't work. Only the menu button works still.
Still works for me 🤷♂️
I just followed this, too, and have the same issue.
@@oliverclifford1379 Did you try the additional info that I wrote in the description?
Same for me - it doesn't work, only left ha menu is reduced to icon state
This is not working on the compagnon app on android
This looks to be deprecated now and is no longer in HACS. Do you know of any other packages that have this behavior?
This is not deprecated. Add this repository to HACS in your case: github.com/NemesisRE/kiosk-mode
@@SmartHomeJunkie that's weird. when I looked it up there was a big deprecated warning on it. oh well. glad it works!
@@WillYork This version had been taken over by someone else. I think you might have seen the old repository of the initial developer.
@@SmartHomeJunkie That makes sense. It was just awkward, I would search NemesisRE and couldn't find them on github, or the kiosk-mode project. Either way I'll just chalk it up to having a bad day. Thanks again!
Hi Ed, ik heb gebruik gemaakt om je te sponsoren. Nou loop ik tegen het probleem aan dat in de admin rol dit perfect werkt, echter op android devices met Geen admin rechten is de gehele bediening geblokkeerd. Dit geldt dus alleen voor niet-admins. wat inhoudt dat zij geen lampen aan of uit kunnen zetten.
Kun je mij helpen aan een oplossing?
Aanvullend: dit probleem is niet van toepassing als ik via de pc op de gebruiker in log. dan werken de knoppen wel. enig idee?
Dit is vreemd en zou niet aan de kiosk mode integratie moeten liggen. Die doet niets met die rechten. Geen idee wat er aan de hand kan zijn.
I just get the not loaded card in hacs front end :(
You can choose for redownload in Hacs on that card. This might solve it.
So I get the message : custom element does not exist: state-switch, Any solution please ?
The error is the solution. You didn't install the state-switch integration from HACS.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks for the reply I did and had the error. Now it just disapeared by itself. Maybe needed some time to settle ?
@@theattorney6072 Ah! Might have been a caching issue!
Hi, when using the IOS app from home assistant the hamburger bar on the top left stays.
Am i doing something wrong?
I think that the hamburger menu that you see on the top left is the menu item chip you've added in the dashboard.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I did not add any chip to the dashboard.
The idea is that i can add the app to my childerens phone to let them see/do some stuff.
But they can press on the hamburger and open the settings --> actions and turn some lights on/off.
Also they can see some links like Energy.
@@dannyvanoijen6175 You must have missed a step in my tutorial, because as you can see in the tutorial, I've created it so that my son cannot see that menu.
@@SmartHomeJunkie ok i have found it and it is working now. However i notice another thing.
When using ios and when you press harder on the Home Assistant icon you get a menu. Via that menu they still can turn on lights (Actions).
why is this better than an android HA app?
Uhm, that app is not true Kiosk mode. 🤷🏼
I am not seeing State Switch Repo in the list.
nvm. I had to add js file to resource and it showed up in the list afterward.
Good to know!!! Thx.