I have some old iPad mini’s running IOS 9.3.5 - It would be great if they could be used as a wall-mounted HA interface. There are a ton of devices like mine, and at a reasonable price.
Would it be possible to make a “lightweight version” (scrape off “advanced” features)?
No need for device tracking and other fancy stuff, just bare minimum like status, and turning on/off devices.
I know: Everything is easy, if you not going to do it yourselves
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It would also be GREAT to be able to post a serious use of old ipads in various forums with topics “Repurpose of old ipads” and also be able to say The HA community is helping the environment, by converting “bricked” devices into fully functional up-to date user interfaces for home automation
I believe its an issue with lovelace. Loading the authentication page in browser (which you have to do both from the ios app to authenticate or from just going to the HA instance in the browser) just shows a blank page in my case. I believe ther are other posts on the forum about exacty this issue. Sadly it seems there isnt a good solution to this. OThers appear to instead use something like HADashboard and appdaemon or tileboard instead (presumably to get aroudn the issues with lovelace.
Yep, same problem on an iPad 3, stuck on 9.3.5.
This problem is regularly popping on the frontend github issues.
My guess is that it is too much of a hassle to deal with these old devices.
did you found a workaround? same problem on my side with an Ipad mini 1 running ios 9.3.5. I’m looking now if jailbraking might allow me to update the browser
Just decided to brush the dust off my old iPad and turns out it’s iPad 3 iOS 9.3.5. Was excited to get it going as I used it a long time ago and now it’s not supported any solution would be nice.
I’m looking for a status only display for my kitchen and was thinking about running a standalone webserver and pushing HA data to it via MQTT. Haven’t worked out the details yet, but I think you could also control devices, or at the least, run automations with MQTT messages.
You could expose HA entities back to Homekit and then use an old Homekit app. Hesperus should still work on iOS9. The Elgato Eve app might work as well.
I have the same issue and instead of using Lovelace I use an Appdaemon dashboard. Not exactly the same but one can still do a lot on a iPad 3 with iOS 9.3.5.
@nagubal thank you so much for posting this! I have RPI3b with latest HassOS that I’m playing with and I just tested it on my iPad 2 — worked flawlessly. Thank you HA Team, awesome job!
