Very simple don’t need to use google tv u can even use an old tv without any smart is in it since raspberry pi is the machine running or even an old computer monitor, but I recommend a tv size to price ratio. Essentially you will flash android 15 onto a spare raspberry pi place your ir frame onto your tv and setup your new “android device” as normal.
For a finishing touch you could build a shadow box around your tv when down to make it look more clean like this:
But looking around for a replacement for my own aging RPi, I’m not seeing the value in that line. For less money, I’ve seen much better single-board computers, both new and used. It’s kind of a shame. The RPi is what got me into HA in the first place.
I agree. RPI was better before the price increase. I still use them for their low-power, 24/7 compute capabilities, as Ryzen NUCs would be too expensive and power-hungry. While RPI isn’t for serious compute, I was surprised my RPI5 could run a local LLM, hinting at the potential of more powerful NUCs.
There’s literally a line of tv from Samsung who market on this concept, its literally called “The Frame” and there’s tons of 3rd party picture frames for this tv.
Since the time of this post, this project of mine is being revised tremendously, the tv will now be inside the wall the frame you see i dont want, rather a flush fit with picture frame around it
I have been wanting to do this and run fully kiosk browser on it. out of curiosity do you have a webcam hooked up as well? i use the camera/microphone to wake up the tablet in the kitchen currently with fully kiosk.
I don’t have a webcam hooked up, but it works Pi running Android + USB webcam, and Fully Kiosk can use it. (idk why everyone likes fully koisk, i tried it and found its so much better having a full fledge giant tablet on the wall than just a home assistant dashboard)
After trying TV + IR touch frame, I’d just get a real touch monitor. TouchWo makes the kiosks you see at McDonald’s/Burger King:
Why not the TV setup? Portrait issues, risk of image retention, and ventilation headaches. Only trade-off with TouchWo: it’s just a touch screen monitor unless you buy their actual version of this with android built in but thats another topic as to why i prefer running android on the pi, also not a smart display so for remote on/off, use a smart plug I like TP-Link Tapo (whole home runs on it and has power monitoring.
Hey amazing work there @zodyking can you give us the setup instructions on the pi? i.e. how did you install android 15 on it and the touchscreen interface? thanks.
@zodyking Reviving this with a question. I saw both the IR frame post and the Touch screen post you made. I love the idea of a touchscreen but it’s out of my budget right now so IR frame it is since I had other stuff laying around.
With that out of the way, Did you do anything to better fit the IR frame to your TV? you noted in the Touch screen post that the IR frames are kind of a one size fits all so they don’t really fit any tv super great. The TV I have has bezels so thin that it’s nearly impossible to mount the Frame to the tv. Did you do anything to make the frame fit better? I’m thinking about making a smaller frame around the tv and using double sided adhesive strips to hold my smaller “sub frame” to the TV. With the extra .5-.75" that the subframe gives me I could then mounting the IR frame to the subframe.
Did you do something similar? or did the frame just fit right for you somehow? I looked up the tv you called out in this post and it also seemed almost bezel free so I assume you found a solution. Any help would be great! Thanks for your time putting these posts together!
Your on the right track, there’s no perfect fit when using ir frames so you fbuild an outer frame box to make things more appealing, also i did mention in the post not all tv can be mounted in portrait mode it will break and you do need proper ventilation for the tv or you’ll overheat and damage the panel.
