HOW TO - Create a Raspberry Pi Smart Home Kiosk (Home Assistant)

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.

▬ 🎥 VIDEO CHAPTERS: ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
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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▬ Products In The Video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Sunfounder TS7 Pro Kit

Sunfounder T7 Screen

7inch Pi touchscreen

Electrw Pi Touch screen

Fire HD 10 Plus

Raspad

Startech USB to Sata

Kingston 240GB SSD

SanDisk A2 SD card

Pi PSU (Official)

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#raspberrypi ​​​​ #homeassistant​​​​ #kiosk

[odhiambo]

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.

[marnixmeersman]

Really great tutorial. Love how you adress everything, without any BS.

[RaphaelMaunier]

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 ^^

[Sossingro]

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!

[deangraham]

GitHub not loading? where do i find the commands? Thanks for your help

[HousewerkRecords]

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

[neekster]

I would love to put a few of these around my house and run Room Assistant on all of them. That would be sweet!

[McPhailHunt]

Worked perfect with an elo touchscreen monitor. Thank you for a great video and tutorial.

[unimatrix]

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?

[fabiocasolaro]

Can it be used in Wifi? Or do you need the Ethernet cable?

[pjguibord]

Moving into a new home, this is going to be perfect!!

[matthewmalpeli]

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 😭

[Madthrax]

The final price is crazy !! a cheap tablet with fully kiosk is waaaay enough... With this no way to put 3 in your house ^^

[ViajeroAstral]

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.

[MaxStanglmaier]

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

[CrankyCoder]

Hahahahaha he said "depending on the pi you get..." LOL

[glennnorberg]

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 >

[HerwinHerwin]

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.

[AlexBoltonKing]

Add the camera and face recognition! Have the dashboard change based on the user that's infront of it.

[rulandu]

it works!!but.. with a 4k monitor and raspberry pi 4, its very laggy!! 2-3 fps, and I don't know why! ty