I mounted a tablet to the wall, showing an HA dashboard via Fully Kiosk.
The design goal is that it goes off (to protect the screen and save a little bit of power) when nobody is around, and turns on when someone is in the vicinity.
To accomplish that, I have an movement sensor nearby, which triggers whenever someone walks past it. An HA automation responds to this event and turns the screen
switch of Fully Kiosk to on
. In Fully Kiosk, I’ve configured the screen to automatically turn off after two minutes.
This works okay, but it expectedly fails when there’s movement for more than two minutes. The HA automation cannot ‘extend’ the timer of Fully Kiosk. So after 120s, the screen turns off and with the next movement, back on.
Is there an elegant solution to this? Some kind of ‘wake lock’ in Fully Kiosk to trigger instead of the screen
switch?
Or should I just disable all screen management in Fully Kiosk and instead implement everything in HA: the ‘on’, the timer and the ‘off’ event?