Smatek S9E Touch Panel

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Has anyone had any luck with an Smatek S9E? I know some people managed to get the T8 panel to work.

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I purchased an S9E hoping to use it with HA. But it has proven more difficult than expected. The main issue is it uses a very outdated version of WebView (83.0.4103.120). So fully Kiosk and the HA app don’t render dashboards correctly. Chrome can be installed and works but it’s not as nice as the app or fully Kiosk browser because the address bar displays. And there is only 2.5MB free on the system partition.

I have tried all sorts of things, Magisk won’t install the riru module or the OpenWebView module.

I can get the hardware buttons working using Automagic. And there is control with the Fully Kiosk integration, just poorly rendered.

But for the life of me I can’t figure out a way to update the webview implementation.

If anyone has some advice or has managed to get it working properly that would be fantastic.

Marty (NZ).

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Well…some good news. Just after posting this I thought I would try one more thing. Turns out I had to use an older version of the OpenWebview module (v24.0) for Magisk. And voila it worked. It did have to hack the ‘VolumeSelector’ script in the openwebview installation to substitue the buttons (F1, F2) for the volume keys as the device doesn’y have volume keys.

Now I have working Fully Browser Kiosk and companion app for that matter. The hard buttons can be used via Automagic.

The next step is to try and get the inbulit temp and humidity sensors to work, and the proximity radar.

Marty.

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