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Create Home Assistant User

Warning

Create a dedicated Kiosk user. Do not use your own user, otherwise everyone with access to the tablet has admin access. You have been warned!

Go to users via this link:

Open your Home Assistant instance and show your users.

Add user:

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  • give that user local access only
  • do not give admin rights

Fill out user form

Get Home Assistant Token

Log in as that user in your home assistant instance. You can use a icognite tab by right click and choose "open in incognito window"

Open your Home Assistant instance

Go to user security for the kiosk/dashboard user:

Open your Home Assistant instance and show your Home Assistant user's security options.

Generate a long-lived access token:

Generate a long-lived access token

Give the token a name: Give the token a name Copy the token to you text editor, password manager. You need it later. Generate a long-lived access to

Token looks like this:

eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiIyZWRlNGE0ZTFjNmQ0ZDY3OTY4ODhmMTk5OGNhNWVjMSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDcxODk3MywiZXhwIjoyMTAwMDc4OTczfQ.Rd92pdzdYkC8HI3buVO6m9EVVI71Ye-MP_1nwogfOgU