iPad On The Wall: move back to /home/ after x minutes: Free Script

This community helped me so much over the last weeks, I wanted to share a script I built tonight.

The script uses a toggle button to turn on “Refresh Mode”. If turned on, the frontend opens up /home/ or any other view you set up, after X seconds / minuts.

When you have a multi view dashboard (think floors, rooms etc) on the wall, the family of course doesnt leave it after usage back on /home/.

This script solves this. Every 10 minutes it moves back to /home/ and when you walk by the ipad: you alwas see the front page.

Features:

  • If you use the ipad during the time, the timer to move back to /home/ is re-set after every touch/blick. Hence, you will never be moved back to /home/ while using the iPad.
  • The script checks every x seconds, if you changed the toggle - hence if you want to turn off the script for some time, simply toggle the button in the frontend.

I put everything together in this repository, maybe it helps someone:

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