I have sent a support request to amazon as to why touch is not working. I have been waiting for an answer for 2 months.
just in general?
Mine is still running in silk.
I’ve tried setting up various stuff to make it run smoothly - but not all is well.
it won’t always open silk via my automations - and sometime the resolution changes… I haven’t dug into trying to figure out why.
I am still blocking updates (even though my device is updated beyond the sideload block) so not sure if any updates have done anything good.
Mine is working, I’d say 85+%.
Wallpaper works great. Kuddos to the developper (Jan Schneider) who picked up and enhanced it, it’s aweome. Especially the screensaver with pics and the ability to display something over it. I have Time (in big) and Weather in one floating box.
Mine is flush on a wall with the power hidden behind it.
I created an Amazon App that would open Silk everytime someone passed/stood in front. Good experience but the delay was bothering me. And I prefer to see my photographs (Wallpaper) from afar than Alexa’s default. So I killed it.
I added 2 cameras on the front loading page so now it stays open all the time.
The 15% loss in the experience is the “freezing”. I did not sideload anything or prevent updates.
My quick work around is smart plug I installed on the outlet in the back of it. Now, every night, Alexa shuts down at 11pm and starts fresh in the morning 6h30. Most days the touch screen works all day. If not, I can reset it by toggling the smart plug on/off.
Even with this &^%#*^( annoyance it has the wife appreciation factor…
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Hi,
I tried to use just add the iframe to my page, but since I’m using the floorplan, it kept making my floorplan very small. So I set the position using card_mod, and that seems to work:
- type: iframe
url: https://dagammla.gitlab.io/keep-silk-open/iframe.html
aspect_ratio: 0%
cardStyle: |
:host {
width: 0%;
height: 0%;
background-color:#FFF;
}
card_mod:
style: |
:host {
position: absolute;
transform: translate(0, 0);
right: 0px;
top: 0px;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
}
I still didn’t mount mine. Its remarkable how well the fireHD tablet i have running fullykiosk works - too bad I can’t get fullykiosk on this device. Would be super nice!
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Just wanted to chime in as I never really contribute to this place and only take knowledge.
I currently have three fire tablets around my house running 24/7 as HA dashboards that work great and have basically zero hiccups unless I do something to disturb them. I come into this thread once a month to check the progress as I one day hope to replace those tablets with the 15’s.
You guys do crazy cool stuff and idiots like me get to reap the benefits of your hard work. We appreciate it. Carry on…
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Yeah I really like my fire tables as keypads on my wall. I wish I could find something more attractive vs a 3d printed tablet holder.
I remodeled and I was hoping to have a nicer look - with the Echo Show but the unreliability doesn’t make me want to cut a hole in my wall to mount a device that is going to be a thorough pain in the butt!
No updates here? Whats peoples status before i cut a hole. I REALLY would like to run this thing as a beautiful keypad.
Mine was working fine with SILK and the keep SILK alive script until about 4 weeks ago. Now it will only stay on 24 hours ish until silk crashes. I then have to reboot the whole thing because the app browser to launch SILK wont even open. I left the same page open on my PC and left it open a couple of days and there was no memory leak so i have no idea what is going on. 
Yeah it’s a dud. I can’t rely on that device. What a shame. A solid package with just lousy software.
I also recently have some issues with Silk, using keep silk open + the MyPage skill to close at night and open in mornings
Such a shame - the product is a great package - just bad software for our purpose. I guess it wasn’t designed to be used like we want to but its very locked down to make it virtually impossible to be used for anything else.
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I’ve tried to apply your suggestion if i swipe the url bar didn’t disappear so I’ve to use the wallpanel component and set the full-screen to true but every time i select a button the silk browser show the banner “show the url bar” anyone have the same issue?
Yeh that never goes away, every touch makes it show.
In the end i replaced the keep silk open hidden script with a live video feed (i just chose a random web cam and made it small:
- type: iframe
url: >-
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UYCMrgERcyA?si=Vbw95WmnxsVhj2tJ&autoplay=1&mute=1
aspect_ratio: 50%
wp_style:
scale: 1
position: absolute
bottom: 11px
right: 10px
height: 1px
width: 1px
Its been 1 week now without crashing or reverting back.
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Thats encouraging. Too bad no one has jailbroken this darn thing.
I know, I am suprised its still not been cracked, I guess its just not popular among the people who normally do the jailbreaking
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I don’t know if some have the same problem as me.
I do have a live camera, so most of the time HA stays on. But not all the time.
However my biggest problem is that sometimes, randomly, the touch stops working. Everything else seems to keep working as the dashboard keeps updating, or it returns to the home screen and this one keeps changing. But I can’t do anything else as the touch seems disabled.
Only way to recover is to reboot, either using the app on my phone, or the physical buttons. I haven’t tried my remote (virtual), but I guess it would work…
Anyone else with this problem, and maybe a solution ??
Mine when it dies (I have a live stream as well) it either goes back to the app selection screen or goes back to the home screen but like you said touch stops working. I can get back to the apps list with the controller though.
Hi there
I also using Silk with MyPage to temporary show the departures of my public transportation and so far its working except the annoying address bar. Its only an optical issue but it looks not nice.
I tried
window.onload = function() {
setTimeout(function() {
window.scrollBy(0, 100);
}, 1000);
};
and
window.onload = function() {
setTimeout(function() {
window.scrollTo(0, 100);
}, 1000);
};
but it doesnt work on the Show 15.
document.documentElement.scrollTop = 100;
scrolls the page but the address bar is still there
Is there any other code I can try ?
Did someone test external hardware like a Fire Remote or Bluethoth Mouse to emulate a scroll ?