I want to add a tablet (nexus gen 2 from 2013), that is a pure info screen in the “public” space, well in the part of our house that is accessible by all folks living in our house as well as guest. Hence a tablet one could get on ebay for 10 bucks.
I want to show status of
sump pump
cistern
garbage schedule
sweeping week duty (a very special thing only custom in southern Germany)
solar output
house consumption water and electricity
battery status
But this tablet should not have any rights what so ever aside from just displaying the mentioned stuff.
I tired the HA app for android on the nexus, its painstakingly slow, however in brave the Lovelace dashboard is quite fast and responsive on that tablet. (why ever that would be)
So no I want to set a start page in brave and when ever the tablet it started it will load just the start page. This should be one special page from the lovelace dashboard, with no sidebar, nothing to move, no rights to change or modify with the used user, basically just displaying the above mentioned status page.
THanks for your feedback, I did some research here in the community and I did read a lot of “unresponsive” and “crashes” regarding kiosk app as well as kiosk browser, the most recommendations did go to thinkmisters wallpanel. But that project looks a bit dead.
Also dead since 2019 is custom header. So what to choose?
there are other kiosk-like browsers with minimal setup…sadly lost all my shortcuts of my research last year, I am running fully kiosk without (serious) issues, albeit quite simple in setup.
I now have the same issues with wallpaper, kiosk and the official app. I cant authenticate.
So I change the title of this topic.
When I try to enter the password, I have to enter every letter of the password two times to generate one asterisk * And when I try to make the password visible, it behaves like clicking login, and then comes back with incorrect user or password.
Well I made sure its right, for confirming the issue the user is 123 and the password is 456. not much to go wrong with.
So I just switched back to brave, and no issue with the login at all…
what the heck am I doing wrong.
I dont have a google account on this tablet, all the stuff like FB, youtube etc. are “deactivated” its basically a factory reset nexus with all the official google updates and then for the app install i add my google account, install the apps, then delete it after the install.
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i played some more, when I make the password visible before I enter anything, it just shows the password while I enter it, I still only get every second keyboard stroke on the input field.
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I also tried http://user:pass@ip:port that didnt work neither
@ vingerha your post sent me off searching, and i found the wall panel app. awesome. works like a charm, just need to get the top bar removed, somehow, but ill find a way, i guess.
Here is the wall panel to be found:
its not in the play store anymore, as its not further developed. so side-load the apk from the releases section.