I have a fire tv HD 7 tablet that I changed to android but still it is not useful because it won’t display any custom Lovelace cards. Therefore I am tired of trying to use it so just want to get a pure android tablet.
My question is does anyone have this tablet and is it good enough?
I would go for at least 12 inches for the display size. I use a Trekstor Surftab Theatre 13.3 inch. It is not the fastest with a 4 core Atom, but well capable of running lovelace and with 200 Euros quite affordable.
Is it just me or would any Tablet suffice?. I mean if you run HA in a web browser and you would buy a normal"ish" tablet from Aliexpress you would get pretty far.
You really want the most recent version of android you can, so you get a browser modern enough for HA. It’s to do with webkit (I think that’s the name).
For example, there are lots of tablets on aliexpress with android 4.4. Avoid. But I can’t say what to aim for as I am using hadashboard at present, which is not so demanding.
This does look like a good buy. It is available in the UK at around £80 and appears to be well reviewed (4.5 stars, 62 reviews).
I might take a chance on it.
Also I saw this one at slightly less money and far fewer reviews.
I myself thought this as well but as others have said and my own experience with fireOS you need to have a modern web view to support all the custom cards if not they won’t display.
I haven’t tried installing any other OS since I changed to android on the fireOS but it’s true android.
I did this back when I was in smartthings and wanted to use action tiles with fully kiosk. But I noticed it was very slow and also fireOS doesn’t permit fully kiosk to have the fill privileges to bypass the lock screen and prevent home button from doing anything. So I kinda want something I don’t have to root or change as doing the rooting or changing something can brick the tablet.
Going to look into the process of doing this. Personally I would prefer not to root or install anything else but it’s not like I’m using this tablet for anything.
Yes it does. No guarantees for the future of course, but if you get a recent Android version it’ll be supported for a good while. Don’t get Android 4.4 or something like that
Thanks for the link. I did search though and there is only a mention of the Fire 2nd generation. I have the 7th and no indication the process would work for that, highly doubtful. Which version of the Fire is supported and do you have a link ? Thanks !
