Using HomeCanvas

Using HomeCanvas

Gestures

Where	Gesture	Action
Albums	long-press	start picking several for a slideshow
Photo	pinch or double-tap	zoom
Photo	swipe left / right	previous / next
Photo	swipe down	close
Slideshow	swipe left / right	previous / next
Slideshow	swipe down	exit
Video	double-tap left / right	back / forward 10s
Video	drag across / up and down	scrub / volume
Weather	tap	the full forecast
Now playing	tap	open or shrink the full player
Dashboard	swipe	change page
Dashboard	tap the current page's dot	pause or resume the page turning (remembered through a restart)

Settings

The gear at the top right.

Tab	What's there
Photos	the Immich connection, Locked Folder, slideshow, photo cache
Music	now playing, the visualiser, Spotify
Home	weather, Home Assistant, the television, the camera
Display	the screen turning off, brightness, the dashboard
Volumes	Do Not Disturb, and separate volumes for notifications, speech, the news reader and timers
Sharing	the share inbox, senders, reading notes aloud
System	restart, power off, and About

The dashboard editor

Open http://homecanvas.local (or http://homecanvas.local:8090) in any browser at home: phone, tablet or computer. There you can:

• drag widgets onto the grid and resize them;
• set each widget up (select it to see its settings);
• add pages, and pages or widgets that only show at certain hours;
• pick a theme, fonts, and an optional photo background;
• change the brightness and the volumes, live.

Press Save and the panel updates. See Widgets for what each one does.

Do Not Disturb

The bell switch in the top bar (also at the top of Settings → Volumes). It mutes everything the panel says or plays by itself: the share chime, notes read aloud, the news reader, timers and bin reminders. Turn it off and each comes back at the volume it had.