Setting HAKIT Dashboard from Addon as default dashboard?

[Scoff123]

Hi all. I've successfully installed the Hakit addon in Home Assistant, and I am now able to view my new dashboard on my Android smartphone to do some further mobile testing. I'm showing the Hakit Dashboard in my sidebar in the companion app, so I can navigate to it easily enough, however I wondered if there is any way of setting my Hakit dashboard as the default dashboard? Under the Home Assistant User profile settings, under Default Dashboard, the picker doesn't recognise my Hakit dashboard. The same with Browser Mod - only my yaml dashboards are available in the Default Dashboard picker.

Also, is there a way of hiding the Home Assistant header or sidebar, like there is with Kiosk mode for lovelace dashboards?

I wondered about creating a lovelace 'wrapper' dashboard, which contains a full screen iframe that loads the Hakit dashboard? Then I would be available in the dashboard pickers and Kiosk mode would allow sidebar and header hiding like a regular lovelace dashboard?

[shannonhochkins]

Only way to do all you've asked is exactly your last paragraph, and iframe pointing to the HTML file for your dashboard with some css styling, I've done this before it can work :)

[Scoff123]

Thank you. I've been testing that, and it works, however I am facing issues with websocket connections if the dashboard isn't in view constantly - i.e when on mobile companion app, which get's minimised, or desktop browser window/tab which is not in focus for some time due to other windows/tabs in focus. Not to do with this particular question/issue though, so I may start another question/discussion about the websocket side of things :)

[shannonhochkins]

Interesting, I haven't seen this before and my tablet runs non stop via addon, it also turns off display / sleep mode after no detected movement or certain level of light drops too low, and i have never seen the dashboard become inactive or white so I may need you to attempt to debug this to find the potential cause so I can help fix it!

[Scoff123]

Ok so I'll create an issue and try to gather the testing info into a logical and understandable order! It sounds like I shouldn't need my connection monitor component to keep things alive, so I'll disable that and start doing some testing and explain what I'm seeing. Dev tools console quite often doesn't show any errors when it happens, and the Hakit addon log doesn't show anything.

[shannonhochkins]

https://shannonhochkins.github.io/ha-component-kit/?path=/docs/core-hassconnect--docs on this page theres an example of how to debug the connection and log out values which might paint the picture for you

[Scoff123]

Great, thanks for the link, I'll get some proper testing done. In the meantime, one thing I have noticed, is that if i leave my view on my dashboard, using the ingress URL from the Hakit addon in the sidebar, on both desktop or android app - and minimise the app or leave the tab/window out of focus for more than 5 minutes - when I return to the app or tab on desktop, the white screen shows consistently, and I get the following in HA logs:

Logger: homeassistant.components.hassio
Source: components/hassio/websocket_api.py:148
integration: Home Assistant Supervisor ([documentation](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/hassio), [issues](https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22integration%3A+hassio%22))
First occurred: 08:40:14 (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 10:05:19

Failed to to call /ingress/validate_session -

At 08:40:14 I reopened my Android HA app, which I left on my dashboard view (from the ingress URL), and saw the white screen.
At 10:05:19 I brought my Edge tab back into view, which I had left on my dashboard view (from the ingress URL), and saw the white screen.

Another one at 10:14:10

Logger: homeassistant.components.hassio.handler
Source: components/hassio/handler.py:255
integration: Home Assistant Supervisor (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 10:14:10 (1 occurrence)
Last logged: 10:14:10

Client error on /ingress/validate_session request 401, message='Attempt to decode JSON with unexpected mimetype: text/plain; charset=utf-8', url='http://172.30.32.2/ingress/validate_session'

Logger: homeassistant.components.hassio
Source: components/hassio/websocket_api.py:148
integration: Home Assistant Supervisor (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 10:14:10 (1 occurrence)
Last logged: 10:14:10

Failed to to call /ingress/validate_session -

If I repeat the same, but leaving the view on my http://homeassistant.local:8123/my-hakit-dashboard/0 dashboard URL, I don't have any problems. So the issue does seem to be isolated to letting the websocket connection die while viewing the ingress / Addon served dashboard.

[Scoff123]

OK I've done some debug testing and it looks like there might be 2 separate issues going on - one is the failure to reconnect issue, and the other is the white screen issue. I haven't been able to reliably reproduce the white screen issue yet, but I have been able to reproduce the 'Connection lost. Reconnecting...' issue, so I've created Issue 304 so we can hopefully figure out what's going on there to start with.