Anyone willing to ELI5 the Selenium web driver please?

[Alllfff]

My council requires "URL of the remote Selenium web driver to use" but I have no idea how to do this even after checking all the links provided, it is just beyond my computer skill level. Anyone care to write a step by step or point me in some guide or video aimed at complete novices please?
Thank you

[OliverCullimore]

@Alllfff it can be installed in various ways so to point you to the right guide it would be useful to know the following:

Do you have Home Assistant installed? If so, which install method from this list did you use?

Do you have any other hardware such as a Raspberry Pi you can install things on?

[Alllfff]

Hi
I do have Home Assistant installed, as per DIY with Raspberry Pi from the link you provided.
I have a spare RPi model 2 or maybe even 3, I would need to check.
I also have iMac and a mini Mac both running 24/7 on the network.

[mrw298]

@Alllfff I found it a bit of pain also, so I knocked up a custom local addon so it could run on my HAOS instance.

In case it's useful to anyone else:

• Create a folder selenium_addon under addons
• Drop these files in, stripping the .txt file off the end
  -- stop_trap.sh.txt
  -- entrypoint.sh.txt
  -- Dockerfile.txt
  -- config.yaml.txt
• Refresh your addon repos

You should then have a local addon of selenium you can point the integration at (http://local-selenium-addon:4444/wd/hub)

[nraimo1]

I've tried this won't work, can't seem to find it as a local addon then tried turning it into a github file to load addon that way it wouldn't load https://github.com/nraimo1/selenium_addon any suggestions

[mrw298]

sorry, I followed the instructions here: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/add-ons/tutorial substituting my files and it worked for me.

[nraimo1]

whats the LOCATIOn of the addons file could you screenshot it? Mine didn't exist anywhere so I assume I create one in a directory somewhere?

[nraimo1]

I have it here "homeassistant/addons/selenium_addon"

[mrw298]

think you need it up a level