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Enter the Home Assisant Page at Boot¶

Experience the full-screen self-boot interface first. Please close the already open Home Assistant URL and run chromium-browser --start-fullscreen "http://localhost:8123".

If you want to automatically display the Home Assistant interface in full screen after booting, then do the following.

  1. Go to the autostart folder.

cd /home/pi/.config/autostart/

Note

If the autostart folder does not exist, you need to create a new one.

sudo mkdir -p /home/pi/.config/autostart/

  1. Create chrome_start_fullscreen.desktop file.

sudo nano chrome_start_fullscreen.desktop

  1. Edit the chrome_start_fullscreen.desktop file as follows.

[Desktop Entry]
Type = Application
Exec = chromium-browser --start-fullscreen "http://localhost:8123"

Save and exit: Ctrl + X, Y, Enter.

Note

If you want to cancel the full-screen self-start, comment out the contents of the .desktop file (by "#" )and restart the Raspberry Pi.

cd /home/pi/.config/autostart/
sudo nano chrome_start_fullscreen.desktop

  1. Exit full screen.

computer:

Method 1: Press F11.

Method 2: Move the mouse to the upper column of the screen and click the exit button that appears.

Method 3: Right-click the pop-up menu, select "Exit full screen".

Touch screen:

Long press the blank space to pop up the menu, click the exit button at the top of the screen or select "Exit full screen".

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