Show your Home Assistant dashboard on a TV, signed in and without the menus

What you get

A Home Assistant dashboard on a TV, full screen or in one cell next to a clock or a menu. It opens already signed in, it fills the screen without Home Assistant’s header and sidebar, and it stays up to date because it is the live dashboard, not a picture of it.

Jun already had Home Assistant on a small box at home, with a dashboard for the kitchen: lights, the front door, the energy meter. A Fire TV Stick 4K runs Moon Suite on the kitchen TV. The steps below are what it took to get one onto the other.

What you need

• Home Assistant running on your home network, and a TV already showing a moon. We tested on a Fire TV Stick 4K with Home Assistant 2026.10.
• Home Assistant and the TV on the same network. The TV reaches Home Assistant directly, so Moon Suite never sees your Home Assistant.
• Access to your router, to reserve two addresses.
• Access to Home Assistant’s settings and, for step 3, its configuration.yaml file.

Below, Home Assistant is at 192.168.1.50 and the TV at 192.168.1.60. Yours will differ.

1. Use the IP address, not homeassistant.local

Names ending in .local are found by a method called mDNS, which a TV’s web view can’t use. http://homeassistant.local:8123 loads on your laptop and fails on the TV.

1. Find Home Assistant’s address. In Home Assistant, open Settings > System > Network, or look at your router’s list of devices.
2. In your router, reserve that address for Home Assistant, so it never changes. Routers call this a DHCP reservation or a static lease.
3. Use http://192.168.1.50:8123 wherever the guide says the address.

2. Allow Home Assistant to be shown inside another app

Home Assistant tells browsers not to show it inside another page. A Moon Suite cell is another page, so it shows an error. Turn that off with the Home Assistant setting use_x_frame_options, set to false.

Where it lives depends on your version:

• Home Assistant 2026.10 and later keeps its HTTP settings in its own storage, after a one-time move from configuration.yaml. The http: block in the file is ignored. We have not checked whether a settings screen offers this option yet, so use the websocket API, as we did on 2026.10.4: 1. In Home Assistant, open your profile, then Security > Long-lived access tokens, and create a token as an administrator. Treat it like a password. 2. Save the script below as ha-http.mjs, with your address and token. It needs Node 22 or later. 3. Run node ha-http.mjs. Home Assistant restarts itself after the change; the script waits for it and then makes the setting permanent, so it survives recovery mode.

const URL = 'ws://192.168.1.50:8123/api/websocket'
const TOKEN = 'YOUR_LONG_LIVED_TOKEN'

const open = () =>
  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const ws = new WebSocket(URL)
    let id = 0
    const pending = {}
    ws.onerror = () => reject(new Error('cannot connect'))
    ws.onmessage = (e) => {
      const m = JSON.parse(e.data)
      if (m.type === 'auth_required') ws.send(JSON.stringify({ type: 'auth', access_token: TOKEN }))
      else if (m.type === 'auth_ok') resolve((msg) => new Promise((res) => { pending[++id] = res; ws.send(JSON.stringify({ ...msg, id })) }))
      else if (m.type === 'auth_invalid') reject(new Error('bad token'))
      else if (pending[m.id]) pending[m.id](m)
    }
  })

const send = await open()
const current = (await send({ type: 'http/config' })).result
const { created_at, error, error_message, ...stable } = current.stable ?? current
await send({ type: 'http/config/configure', config: { ...stable, use_x_frame_options: false } })

let back
while (!back) {
  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 5000))
  back = await open().catch(() => null)
}
console.log(await back({ type: 'http/config/promote' }))
process.exit(0)

On older versions, set it in configuration.yaml and restart Home Assistant:

http:
  use_x_frame_options: false

3. Make a display user and sign the TV in by itself

You can type a password on the TV with its remote, and it works, but you’ll type it again after the app’s data is cleared or the session expires. A wall display shouldn’t ask.

1. In Home Assistant, open Settings > People > Users and add a user for the TV, for example moonsuite. Leave Administrator off and turn on Can only log in from the local network.
2. Copy that user’s ID, from the user’s details.
3. In your router, reserve an address for the TV, here 192.168.1.60.
4. In configuration.yaml, add this, with the ID you copied:

homeassistant:
  auth_providers:
    - type: trusted_networks
      trusted_networks:
        - 192.168.1.60/32
      trusted_users:
        192.168.1.60: <the user ID>
      allow_bypass_login: true
    - type: homeassistant

1. Restart Home Assistant.

The trusted_networks block must come before - type: homeassistant. If it comes after, the TV still gets the login form.

The /32 means exactly one address, the TV’s. Every other device keeps the normal login.

4. Hide the menus with kiosk-mode

Home Assistant draws a header and a sidebar around every dashboard. On a TV they are in the way.

1. Install kiosk-mode (NemesisRE/kiosk-mode) through HACS, Home Assistant’s add-on store, and reload.
2. Open the dashboard you want on the TV, and note its full address, for example http://192.168.1.50:8123/lovelace/0 or http://192.168.1.50:8123/dashboard-kitchen/0.
3. Add ?kiosk to the end: http://192.168.1.50:8123/dashboard-kitchen/0?kiosk.

Use the full path to a dashboard and its view, not the bare address. The bare address redirects, and the redirect drops ?kiosk.

5. Add it to a moon

1. In the editor, open the moon for that TV and add a Web page widget.
2. Paste the address from step 4 into Page URL.
3. Leave Reload every at 0 so the page isn’t reloaded. Home Assistant updates itself.
4. Make the cell as big as you like; a whole screen works well. Publish, and the TV shows it at its next check.

When it doesn’t work

Each message below is what the cell shows, and what to change.

Keep it safe

• Anyone on the TV’s address gets the display user’s access. Trusted-network sign-in trusts the address, not a person. Reserve the TV’s address, trust only that one, and don’t use the display user for anything else.
• Keep the display user small. Not an administrator, local only, and its own dashboard.
• Don’t open Home Assistant to the internet for this. The TV reaches it over your home network.
• Plain http:// stays inside your home. Don’t use these steps for a Home Assistant you reach over the internet.

About the story. The people and businesses in these guides are made up. They show how we expect a moon to be used, not the experience of real customers.