Earlier this year, I finally pulled the triggers and bought a 43" touch screen Tablet/TV to display my Home Assistant dashboard. Its main use case is displaying (12) 1080p security camera feeds using Go2RTC addon for real-time video. I’m also running the Frigate & Button cards to instantly display the last person detected on every security camera along with the time since the person was detected.
Due to the large number of video feeds, I couldn’t use the built-in Android OS included on the TV. The system resources to display all the video feeds just wasn’t enough. Even a Raspberry Pi 4 couldn’t handle the (12) video streams, so I ended up using a small Windows mini PC to power the screen.
I’m turning the TV on/off using Frigate and a Broadlink IR adapter. Frigate detects a person and sends a command to the Broadlink IR blaster to turn on the TV. After 20 minutes of not detecting a person, the IR blaster sends another signal to turn off the display.
Youtube Video: My 43in Home Assistant Wall Tablet Setup - YouTube
Home Assistant Cards & Addons:
- Kiosk Card: GitHub - maykar/kiosk-mode: 🙈 Hides the Home Assistant header and/or sidebar
- Layout Card: GitHub - thomasloven/lovelace-layout-card: 🔹 Get more control over the placement of lovelace cards.
- Button Card: GitHub - custom-cards/button-card: ❇️ Lovelace button-card for home assistant
- Go2RTC: GitHub - AlexxIT/go2rtc: Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc.
- Simple Clock: GitHub - fufar/simple-clock-card: Simple clock card for Home assistant lovelace
- ApexCharts: GitHub - RomRider/apexcharts-card: 📈 A Lovelace card to display advanced graphs and charts based on ApexChartsJS for Home Assistant
- Frigate Addon & Card: GitHub - dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card: A Lovelace card for Frigate in Home Assistant
I’ve also included a list of the hardware used in the setup:
- Touchscreen TV/Tablet: Viewsonic Viewboard IFP4320 https://www.viewsonic.com/us/catalog/…
- Mini PC: MINIX NEO J50C-8SE https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09…
- Security Camera System: Frigate https://frigate.video/
- Kitchen Camera: Reolink 5MP Super HD Plug-in WiFi Camera https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07…
- Outside Security Cameras: Amcrest UltraHD 4K IP8M-2454EW https://amcrest.com/amcrest-ultrahd-2…
- IR Blaster: Broadlink RM Mini 3 IR https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07…
This is only my second YouTube video and I still have lots to improve on production wise. I’m hoping to inspire others to build upon my ideas for other interesting projects in the future. Free free to post any questions!