Magnetic tablet wall mount: Elegant, frameless, detachable

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Thank you, I will check it out!

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Thank you, but I will go for the more expensive one :slight_smile:

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ā€¦ which is a good choice!

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Hello, My idea is to make exactely this same thing, how can you controle the home assistant from a tablet? Iā€™m new at it and dont know how to put it on a tablet, or if I have to make it on a windows device and then control it from the tablet

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My setup:
HA on a Raspberry Pi.
The tablets in the house show the web interface of that HA instance.
I use a special browser on the tablets, called Fully kiosk browser. I strongly recommend it.

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Hi all! I am new here, so I hope I am sharing in the right place.
I have also created a tablet wall mount, although with a slightly different approach. My mount relies on a tiny shelf, so that you donĀ“t need bulky magnets on the back of your tablet. That said, there is a tiny magnetic dongle involved, so for now itĀ“s not entirely bulk-free :slight_smile:
I am planning on creating a version for wireless charging also, but that probably wonĀ“t be as universal one size fits all as this version. What do you think?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kaljukesper/padholder-2000-the-only-tablet-wall-mount-you-need?ref=user_menu&fbclid=IwAR2kqOBAukTBap8FVzvmzysXm1dQ8kFXwqzLjdbPJabq5xJfPdcRwNwkXJ8

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Hey,

I really do like your dashboard on the tabled mounted to the wall. Can you share the config for this for me to re-build and adapt this? It is exactly what I am looking for for quite some time.

That would be brillaint :slight_smile:

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Is there any smart alternative for this power module? To enable cycle charging through Home Assistant to not end up with a bloathed battery.

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Yes, many. Any parameters that are important to you?

Recom has some really small 3W power modules made to fit even into small wall boxes :pinching_hand:

Usually you will configure your tablet directly for use with permanent power connection. Like setting the maximum charge to 60% and the lowest to 40% so that the battery is in the most comfortable zone and has the greatest life expectancy. :chart_with_upwards_trend:

Depending of your make and model you might need to take responsibility/ownership and get full rights/access via jailbreak/root :hammer:

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So i can configure that within the tablet itself? No need to use home assistant and a smartswitch?

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If the manufacture allows you too - yes. Not really up2date on that topic but in the past their often were no settings for this. Essentially users were forced to jailbreak/root their devices to have sufficient rights to configure (maybe with the help of 3rd party apps then) such settings. :gear:

Keep it save and simple - or not. Running an extra smart switch which turns charging on/off depending on the battery state obviously is possible. The parts for this are actually dirt cheap but you will have another device being powered 24-7 for that luxury :zap:

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With my constant 5V power supply to my wall mounted tablets I was definitely afraid of bloating batteries. But I am happy to report that even after 2 years my cheap Fire HD tablets do not show the slightest sign of battery damage. They look like they did the first day.

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Iā€™m sorry, but I have to ask: arenā€™t magnets on the back of a tablet a bad idea? I honestly have no idea, if this is something, but wasnā€™t it ā€œno magnets near electronic devicesā€? I might be totally wrong here, so sorry for asking. :slight_smile: :laughing:

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That is only a myth today and dates back to the stone hard drive age. Remember that drives which were spinning? They saved bits by magnetize tiny section on the platters! So it was a good shot to donā€™t come to close with strong magnets other than you actively want to scramble your files :magnet::minidisc:

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Thanks for pointing that out! :+1: And for making me that old, as I might look today :rofl: :rofl: OK, I see, this is something from the dark ages of computing. At least I remembered there was ā€œsomethingā€ - seems to be a success at my age :rofl: :rofl:

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Did you tried any other (open source) solution like wallpanel or the companion app for your this scenario?

Couldnā€™t be the android companion app set as home launcher in android (essentially make it a ā€œkioskā€ only)?

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I never tried any other solution. Fully has so many advantages and is so cheap (less than 8ā‚¬) that I never bothered. It has a JS API that is used by Thomas Lovenā€™s browser_mod and there is even a HA integration for Fully. With these two tools I can use the cameras of the tablets, read their battery status, pop up windows, send audio messages to the tablet speakers, and so much more. I have no idea weather this is possible with any of the other solutions.

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Even in the stone age this was mostly a myth. I have TRIED to delete data from mag tapes using a bulk tape eraser in the PBS television studio where I was volunteering, but because the tape data was digital, it took longer on the bulk eraser to delete data than simply running the DV tapes through a tape deck recording a test-pattern. The same applied to a few dozen HDD drives of various heritage, even SCSI. An hour on the bulk tape eraser did not delete the data. It speaks well of the robust quality of the error correction on digital recordings.

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We have actually deleted data (or better altered bits) from a hard disk using some strong magnet :magnet:

It was enough to swipe once closely over the top of were platters are located and all partition tables were gone and no data was accessible due to that. Still (as it was in the good old times with that drives) some data could be recovered - typically photos (often partially broken). :framed_picture:

But to get things really deleted (in the old times before full disk encryption) we had ā€œDarikā€™s stationā€ - a dedicated client which only purpose was to run dban (Darikā€™s Boot and Nuke :boom:)