leukipp/touchkio
Home Assistant Touch Panel Kiosk application for a Linux device (e.g. Raspberry Pi) with Touch Display.
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Where it stands
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3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 49 days ago, with 10 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #46 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 23, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Creates a kiosk mode Electron app to display Home Assistant dashboards on Linux touch devices like Raspberry Pi.
- Offers seamless touch-optimized browsing with MQTT integration for remote control and real-time sensor data exchange.
- Use for deploying dedicated Home Assistant touch panels in smart home environments with easy setup and auto-start.
- Use for integrating device status and controls into Home Assistant via MQTT for enhanced automation and monitoring.
- Use for running multi-page kiosk displays on Debian-based Linux devices with customizable themes and zoom levels.
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
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- README: present
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From the README
TouchKio is a Node.js application that utilizes Electron to create a kiosk mode window specifically designed for a Home Assistant dashboard. This tool is packaged as a .deb file, making it easy to launch the kiosk application on any Debian based Linux hardware (e.g. Raspberry Pi) equipped with a DSI or HDMI Touch Display. Additional releases for other Linux systems are available as .zip file.
This implementation addresses common issues encountered when using the built-in browser running in fullscreen mode on a Linux device with Touch Display. Moreover, the device running the kiosk application also offers several Home Assistant MQTT sensors, enhancing it's functionality for automation purposes.
The kiosk application can be executed with command line arguments to load a Home Assistant dashboard in fullscreen mode. Additionally, a MQTT endpoint can be defined, allowing the application to provide controls and sensors for the Linux device and the connected Touch Display.
Before you begin, make sure that you have a Linux device configured and operational with a compatible Touch Display. This guide assumes that you are using a Raspberry Pi with the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit), along with a desktop environment (preferred using labwc). However, the .deb setup procedure is also compatible with any other Debian based 64-bit system.
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Forks
94+13
Open issues
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