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Dashboard Options (Display enabled satellites only)

General Settings​

The dashboard options control different aspects of the View Assist display

  • Dashboard - The base dashboard for View Assist (default /viewassist/)
  • Home screen - The screen to return to after timeout (default /viewassist/clock)
  • Default Music View screen - The view to return to when in music mode (default /viewassist/music)
  • Intent View Screen - The view to display for default HA actions for displaying those entities (default /viewassist/intent)
  • List View - The view for displaying Home Assistant list type data like shopping and to do lists (default /viewassist/list)

Background Settings​

  • Background Image Source - This option is used to determine how the background image is handled. The options are:
    • Default background - Use a defined background image (see below)
    • Local file path sequence - Picks images in their sorted order from the image path defined below
    • Local file path random - Picks images randomly from the image path defined below
    • Download random image from Unsplash - Downloads a random image from Unsplash website then displays it
  • Default Background - An image path to use as default background for all satellites (default /view_assist/dashboard/background.jpg)
  • Image path - The file path that stores the predefined and downloaded images
  • Rotation interval - Time in minutes between image rotations

Display Settings​

  • Assist Prompt - The Assist prompt style to use for wake word and intent processing (default blur pop up)
  • Status Icon Size - The size of the activated status icons shown in the top right corner
  • Font Style - The default font to use for this satellite device. Font name must match perfectly and be available (default Roboto)
  • Launch Icons - Advanced option! List of custom launch icons to set on start up. Additional documentation to follow
    • Launch Icons Menu Configuration - Advanced option! Allows for adding a single menu icon that when tapped will expand to additional icons. Add the icons to show in this configuration option. Additional documentation to follow
    • Launch Icons Menu Timeout - Time in seconds before menu automatically closes (0 to disable timeout)
  • Use 24 Hour Time - Sets clock display to 24 hour time when enabled
  • Show/Hide Header and Side bars - Show or hide the header and sidebar