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I still have a Google Home in the kitchen, but what I really want it to display is data from my weather station, transit info, the time, etc. I can't control that damn thing at all. I've got a TidByt coming today, which I have high hopes for!

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I haven't used it myself, but Home Assistant can cast to a Google Home Hub, so afaiu, you can set up a whole dashboard of widgets and controls and use it from a stock Home Hub.

And touch interface works on the casted lovelace dashboards too!

Completely opens up these displays to be a virtually unrestricted canvas for doing or displaying anything you want.

I'm going to have to try that out, my whole apartment is mostly Google Home-based.

That said, we are building a Home Assistant integration at Tidbyt as well.

Nice! What I really want, though, is a local API! I can use a starlark script to grab entity states from my local Home Assistant super easy... but then I have to cUrl them up to a Tidbyt server somewhere, only to have it sent right back into my house. Seems kinda silly, and will break anytime my internet goes out.

Are you referring to casting a URL to open a browser on the home hub? I tried that in the past but it was kinda janky. It's definitely possible with something like https://demille.github.io/url-cast-receiver/ though

Just setup a monitor with some browser windows on it? Or one browser window with a local page that embeds the info?

Eh, Tidbyt is cheaper, easier to set up, and looks nicer:

https://github.com/pkulak/tidbyt

It ended up working great!

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