Feed: Home Assistant fullscreen camera popup when someone is at the door

The fullscreen camera popup opening on my tablet dashboard

In my living room I have a tablet dashboard with the weather, news and actual home data. When someone walks up to my front door, I want to see who it is right away, without grabbing my phone or opening an app.

Now the tablet automatically switches to a fullscreen live stream of the front door as soon as a person is detected, and closes it again when the person is gone.

How it works

Frigate detects a person, so a cat walking through the front yard doesn’t trigger it.
An automation opens a fullscreen popup with the HACS module browser_mod 2.
The popup shows the camera stream via the HACS module WebRTC, which converts the RTSP stream to something the browser can play.
A second automation closes the popup again once no person is detected anymore.

You can also limit the popup to one specific tablet with the browser_id property (in the older Browser Mod v1 this was deviceID).

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