Browser


The Browser integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more.
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provides a service to open URLs in the default browser on the host machine.

Configuration

To load this integration, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
browser:

Services

Once loaded, the browser platform will expose servicesA service carries out one specific task, for example: turn on the light in the living room. A service has targets and data and can be called by actions, a dashboard, or via voice command.
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that can be called to perform various actionsActions are used in several places in Home Assistant. As part of a script or automation, actions define what is going to happen once a trigger is activated. In scripts, an action is called sequence.
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.

Available services: browser/browse_url.

Service data attribute Optional Description
url no The URL to open.

Usage

To use this serviceA service carries out one specific task, for example: turn on the light in the living room. A service has targets and data and can be called by actions, a dashboard, or via voice command.
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, choose Call Service from the Developer Tools. Choose the service browser/browse_url from the list of Available services: and enter the URL into the Service Data field and hit CALL SERVICE.

{"url": "http://www.google.com"}

This will open the given URL on the host machine.