NSPanel F-Droid auto start HA

NSPanel Pro
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Hello,

in the new v4.X update when installing Home Assistant on F-Droid, how do I configure HA to automatically start at boot?

Thanks

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This topic has been discussed many times on the forum. Use “Search” and you’ll find in detail that the dev team is working on what you’re asking about and has announced changes in upcoming versions. The next significant change is scheduled for the beginning of the second week of December, so it’s coming soon.

By the way, on the NSPanel Pro you don’t run HA itself. You run the HA Companion app, which is essentially a frontend. The HA instance has to run elsewhere.

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Using now the latest beta version and able to set Home Assistant as standard home app. Although it seems not to stay in the foreground and closes after some time. It might be due to the fact it is unstable/laggy? Because when I push a button on it, it might take 3 seconds or more and might even hang or crash.

How now the screensaver set? Have installed separate app for it, but I choose screen off and on touch on and see HA. What is the best option?

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Hi, thank you very much for using NSPanel Pro and sorry for the issue. Would you please send me the Device ID of your NSPanel Pro through private message?

Please submit a log on your NSPanel Pro device through Top drop-down menu -> Settings -> About -> Feedback -> Submit. The best timing is right after you notice the abnormal condition.

To enable Screensaver, you will need to:

  1. Set Sleep to some time of inactivity through Top drop-down menu -> Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Display -> Advanced -> Sleep.
  2. Choose a screen saver app (such as Clock Screensaver) through Top drop-down menu -> Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Display -> Advanced -> Screen saver -> Current screen saver.
  3. Set When to start to While charging or docked through Top drop-down menu -> Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Display -> Advanced -> Screen saver -> When to start.

To set Home Assistant companion app as Home App, the recommended way is:

Note: we recommend against setting Home Assistant companion app as Home App through Top drop-down menu -> Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Apps & notifications -> Advanced -> Default apps -> Home app.

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Is there an easy way to get a background task to run at boot? My current plan, which I have mostly setup, is to use the Automation App (on F-Droid) to start Termux (also on F-droid) on device start and then running a service script in Termux activating the package node-red which I installed using Termux.

Edit: I couldn’t get a Termux service script to work so I switched to a boot script instead. Currently I think it works but the node-red max memory is set to 256MB. At idle with no flows or nodes it uses 88MB. What would you think a more appropriate limit would be? There is about 1100MB spare without the node Red. I was thinking about changing it to 768MB which would still leave 300-400MB spare. What do you think?