I have an additional RPi (runs Raspbian with GUI) with 7" touchscreen that I use with a browser in kiosk mode to control my squeezeplayers and it also displays the HA webUI in another tab.
So it’s kind of a dashboard with just essential stuff to view & control.
The header of the HA webUI waists valuable pixels so it’s not the ideal solution.
I wonder if anybody else is using a RPi with touchscreen for HA and if yes, are there better ways/alternatives to lovelace/…?
I also have an Android 4.x tablet; any suggestions for that other then buying a new one.
Even though the solution for mobile devices is less important, thanks anyway for this suggestion but I have an Android 4.2.2 and apparently 4.4 is needed.
A solution for the RPi with touchscreen has more priority.
Anyone?
Thanks for these suggestions, first time I hear about Android Things, just recently picked up the existence of Node-Red since I started a few months ago with HA so have to see what I can get out of it.
I will have a look at it at some point.
Since I’m also using the RPi to display/control my audio system, for now a simple weather forecast page, and I don’t have any programming skills other then some batch scripting on DOS/Win and basic HTML knowledge, I guess using a tabbed webpage with iframes in kiosk mode is the obvious way for me.
For now, I start the browser manually since I’m trying a lot things.
I’m using chromium, starting from the applications menu with “chromium-browser --kiosk”
I have created an html page with tabs and use iframes to display different controls.
Out of interest too: are you also doing something with a RPi & Touchscreen in this matter?