Build A Smart Home Control Panel EASILY!

In this video we take a look how to build a Smart Home control panel or Wallpanel with Fully Kiosk and Home Assistant, or any other smart home platform. I'll take you through how to setup and install Fully Kiosk, and how to create 3 automations to help use your control panel more easily!

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[EsotericArctos]

I saw another channel using a pixel tablet to create some nice dashboards recently. Fully Kiosk Browser has been around for years and looks fantastic. I am not totally sold on wall panels myself. I prefer a dashboard to be near to where I am most likely to use it, which honestly is the coffee table near where I sit in the lounge, or the kitchen bench. I admit, wall panels use to be my aim, but I found, from personal experience, that in my use case, walking to a wall panel was, in the end, no different to walking to an old fashioned switch or thermostat.

[erikw]

Thanks!! Really awsome info. I already had 2 tablets setup with Fully Kiosk Browser and is working great. However I did not know there was also a HA integration. I learned from your video I can basically use this to assign a button to open a different webpage. I now made a button to open google shopping list and a button to open my recipebook in the tablet in the kitchen. Game changer! :)
2 extra tips here:
1) You when you enable webinterface in settings, you can go from your pc to the settings and much easier change them and also backup/restore them
2) There are settings build in, so you can use the camera as motion detector to turn on screen for x seconds. Works great! I put some semi-transparant tape over the camera, so it will only see blur for extra security.

[thecraigmcrae]

Just getting into home automation with home assistant, and this has given me a lot of hope and excitement around the possibilities. Thanks for the quality content!

[scruggs.jonathan]

Pro tip: set your low battery percentage to 75% and it will be a lot better for the battery. The nominal voltage is where lithium batteries are the most happy and have the least amount of wear. Cycling a lithium battery below and above the nominal voltage is harder on the battery vs keeping it at nominal voltage.

[NomadTomas]

Useful video as always. Really great content 👍 But, for anyone thinking about doing smart home pannel, please ditch the 3D printed frames. I also 3D print stuff that I need, because you can create things that are impossible to buy. But the looks of it isn't always great. If you're building walll panel, I recommend you get any picture frame. The design looks so much better that whatever you print. For example Ikea sell tons of them, and they laso include the carboard insert, which you can cut to exactly fit display of your tablet. And you'll get the Echo Show 15 look and feel without any Amazon limitations...

[triplerinse]

I guess I never knew you could make two triggers and then specify which action the trigger does. I always made 2 separate automations

[MrDallaskincaid]

One thing to add, you should give your tablet a static IP because if the IP changes, the full kiosk integration with HA will break. Correct?

[khaldounsallom]

You are a wizard! Thank you very much for the great instructions! I would love to see a full corse on home assistant made by you on one of the educational platforms, I will be the first person to sign up for it! your videos have a huge impact on my journey with home assistant! you made my life way easier. I can not thank you enough.

[aucard]

What was I'm my mind when planning the same is PoE wire with Type-C adapter.
Better connectivity, sleeker power delivery (no occupying the wall socket, no loose wiring)

[MajorWedgie]

OMG! I have been looking for the whole ID->Choose thing for ever. Never knew how to do it! Thank you Lewis!
Oh and of course: Awesome video, as always!

[svensvensson]

We still need the Mushroom/Minimalist wall tablet Dashboard video! PLEASSSEE

[AviDarks]

You have the option under Fully Kiosk it will run the screen in identification using the tablet camera

[tlanfer]

Cool summary!
Having tried a few of these things before, i didnt like using the navigation feature of fully to navigate to a different dashboard to show the camera feed when the doorbell rings. It just took to long to be useful, at least on a tablet thats near me and always visible. Also, you lose the context, so navigating back to where you were before is cumbersome.

Instead, i use "browser mod", which has a service you can call to show the "more info" dialog for a specific entity on any registered browser. This goes a lot faster, even on my old fire hd tablet.
My full automation is a bit more complex. I use browser mod and fully kiosk browser. I have a home assistant script called "door peek", which disables the tablet screensaver, sets the screen brightness to max, disables the screen timeout (through fully). Then using browser mod i show a popup window with my camera feed (browser mod). Then i wait 30 seconds, close the popup, and revert screen brightness and display timeout. After a 5 seconds the tablet goes back to screensaver mode, aka display almost off.

I call this script when the doorbell rings, when the letterbox is opened, and when frigate detects a person near the door. Extremely handy.

[Gizfreek]

Thanks for the great video, I have just one problem with my implementation: I can turn on/off the motion detection in HASS for the Fully Kiosk Browser but I've got no motion entity to use in automations. The integrated motion detection from the Kiosk runs fine and turns off/on the screen but I'd really like to have the integration into HASS for that. Anything I missed setting it up?

[grzehooo]

I'm getting to wall tablet for about half year already, thanks for vid.

[alexminsky]

Fantastic tutorial, Lewis! Now, I have a wall-mount panel for my HA :)

[bluethunder]

Awesome and very usefull info! I am currently using a couple of Fire Tablets with Sharptools and will be looking into going this route if it can do everything I am currently doing in Sharptools - since I am already licensed with Fully Kiosk on both of my tablets, this would actually save me money for not having to pay for Sharptools licensing yearly. Thanks for all the work you put into these videos!

[jaysprenkle]

Kudos for the battery minder, good idea

[PaYtrIxHD]

Where does the motion detection sensor come from? From the companion app or the fully kiosk integration? I do not find the motion detection sensor in both of them with my fire tablet...

[petervanmeel]

Thank you for the detailed instructions!