Remote Assist Display

This project is meant to be an alternative to browser_mod for building dashboards controllable from Home Assistant, specifically for use with ViewAssist.

The project consists of two components - the Custom Component in custom_components and the gui app. In order to effectively use RAD, you'll need to install BOTH components. Below are the recommended methods of installing the Home Assistant integration, but for alternatives, see the alternative installation directions. For instructions on installing the application, please refer to that repo.

QuickStart

Install the Integration With HACS

• Install HACS if you have not already
• Click
  to add this as a custom repository, or add it manually.
• Click "Add" to confirm, and then click "Download" to download and install the integration
• Restart Home Assistant
• After the reboot, add the integration via the integrations dashboard or click here: .

It's possible to set default dashboards on a per-device basis, but if you'd like to use the default dashboard on all of your devices, you can sest that now from the integration's configuration page. Otherwise, new devices added will default to using the default lovelace dashboard, and can be individually changed.

Configuration

• Once you've installed the application on a device, go to Integrations, find the "Remote Assist Display" integration, and click on it. You should see your new device. Click on that device and look for the section at the top that says "Controls", with an input box for "Default Dashboard". Type in the name of the default dashboard for that device. It will be saved and the device will be updated as soon as that text box loses focus (so click somewhere else on the page, hit tab, etc.).

Usage

Services

The integration provides two services:

• remote_assist_display.navigate is meant to be a browser-mod-compatible service. It takes a target (the device), and a path (relative to your home assistant base URL).
• remote_assist_display.navigate_url is different in that it can accept any URL, not just a home assistant one.

Event Bus Integration

The integration has the ability to listen to the event bus for messages containing conversation responses from a specific device (ie, the assist satellite to which your Remote Assist Display is paired) and update an automatically-create sensor with the result of the conversation. This does require the usage of a conversation component that emits assist pipeline events to the service bus, which Home Assistant does not natively do. This conversation component can be used either as-is, or as an example for modifying a conversation component of your own. If this PR gets merged, this project will be updated to work with that by default.

To configure this, go to the Remote Assist Display integration's Configuration page and set the event_type you want your devices to listen to (for the custom conversation integration, this will be custom_conversation_conversation_ended). On each Remote Assist Display Device's device page select the corresponding Assist Satellite in the dropdown.