Home-Assisstant Interface That Runs in the Kindle Browser

What? Switch on and off devices, lights, or music in your house from a wall-mounted e-paper display.

Why? I had a kindle laying around. However, even new kindles run a 2009ish chromeium browser that does not support modern javascript, also not the home-assistant UI.

How To

create a long-lived access token to your home-assistant in your account profile. This token will be saved locally on your kindle and used to log into home-assistant.
create a group of entities you want to display on the kindle. Currently supported are sensors, switches, lights, scenes, and media players.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
group:
  on_kindle:
    name: Kindle Entities
    entities:
      - switch.kitchen_pin_3
      - sensor.bedroom_temp
      - sensor.porch_temp

clone the repository to a local computer that you can connect via USB to your kindle. Make sure that you have node.js installed.
Within the cloned repository on your machine, create a configuration file src/config.json for your kindle interface based on the example config.

// example config.json
{
  "token": "askjhdfkshdkf", // your long lived access token
  "wifi": "",  // see below
  "address": "http://hassio.local:8123",  // address of your home-assisstant WITHOUT trailing slash /
  "groupname": "on_kindle",  // the group configured above, you may choose any name
  "media_sources": {
    "media_player.your_media_player": ["Source 1", "Source 3"]  // optional, if you want to show only specific source options
  }
}

build the index.html file by running the following commands on your machine. This will create a single file index.html that needs to be copied to the kindle.
```
npm ci
npm run build
```

Copy the file to your kindle. Your kindle has to be connected via USB.

# example on Mac
cp dist/index.html /Volumes/Kindle/documents/index.html

Detach the kindle from USB and open the 'Beta-Browser'. Make sure that javascript and images are enabled. Navigate to file:///mnt/us/documents/index.html. Done. The screen reloads every 10s and will update automatically when new entities are added to the specified group on home-assistant.
Disable the kindle's screensaver such that the display stays on. For this, you need to go to the home screen and type ~ds into the search bar. More info here.

Supported Devices

Confirmed support was reported for:

Kindle Paperwhite 1 & 3

Additional Options

WiFi

You can display a qr code to let people connect to your wifi. For this, create a qr code and convert it into a base64 string (click 'copy image'). Then, add the string to the config:

// src/config.json
{
  ...
  "wifi": "data:image/png;base64,...",
  ...
}

Media Player Sources

If you don't want to display all sources of a media player entity, only put those that you want into the config:

// src/config.json
{
  ...
  "media_sources": {
    "media_player.your_media_player": ["Source 1", "Source 3"]  // optional, if you want to show only specific source options
  }
  ...
}

hermannsblum / kindle_infoscreen

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