It’s just a thin 3d-printed cover with rounded edges (attached with double-sided adhesive tape).
The Thinksmart logo was the only thing that my wife didn’t like about the idea of having this device in the living room.
So I needed a quick fix.
It’s just a thin 3d-printed cover with rounded edges (attached with double-sided adhesive tape).
The Thinksmart logo was the only thing that my wife didn’t like about the idea of having this device in the living room.
So I needed a quick fix.
Yeah, I was asking for the exact same use case
Are you able to share the drawings? I’ll ask a buddy to print it
Sure, here you go:
Give it some love after printing by sanding it for a less 3d-printed look, ending up with about grit 800.
That will give a relative matte look.
Continuing with finer grits will make it more shiny than the body, which might look a little bit out of place.
How do you switch between the normal dashboard and the screensaver? Are you using Fully Kiosks screensaver URL setting?
If I drop the URL of the screensaver dashboard in the settings, the ugly-bright white HA splash screen shows when switching dashboards. That’s so annoying, that I’m currently not using it as it draws unnecessary attention to the device when it switches over
I’m using a mix of Fully Kiosk and Browser-Mod to control the device.
With Browser-Mod you get the current url (so you can react with automations on it) and you can also navigate within the page like with HAs navigate actions.
That won’t reload the page, so you won’t get bugged by the ugly screen flashes.
I also use the current URL to detect if the screensaver dashboard is active and then an automation controls the brightness of the device based on the LUX value of a sensor in the living room.
Once you’re out of the screensaver view, it is always set to 100% brightness.
That’s because I like the clock to be less prominent visible and distracting, while a higher brightness makes the dashboard easier to read and looks better.
What’s currently missing is the automatic return to the screensaver after some time, so I currently use a button on the dashboard.
You can’t use Fully Kiosks integrated feature, as you otherwise use get a full page load with the flashing splash screen again.
I wrote to the Fully Kiosk developer if he might add the idle time as a value to MQTT and / or as a Javascript endpoint.
He said that he could add this in the next version most likely, so lets see …
Otherwise a custom JS loaded in the dashboard to monitor taps could also be possible, but I hope for the easier solution through Fully Kiosk.