I’m looking for the best way to control my Home Assistant interface via a touchscreen in the living room.
I’ve read several posts on the topic but I’m struggling to make a clear choice.
I’m hesitating between:
A regular Android tablet
A dedicated touchscreen (PoE or other)
Another approach you’d recommend?
My setup:
Home Assistant Yellow
Fully wired PoE network
Built-in Zigbee
I’m looking for a stable, future-proof, large-format solution, powered over PoE, and compatible with a presence sensor (or Zigbee) to wake the screen automatically.
No set budget for now—I’d rather go with a proven, smooth solution.
Afaik there are no off the shelve PoE touchscreen solutions built for HA. Unless you are looking at the pro space where there are screens you can stream to OR have to hook up something to render the display, OR (outdated) Android tablets where you might use the companion app.
Ubiquity has a PoE touchscreen but I am not sure what you can display on it.
So if PoE is important (and since you already have it present, it /would/ be useful), you’ll have to create one yourself. Easiest way might be a raspberry Pi with a PoE hat or maybe an ESP32 based touchscreen. The latter would mean designing the interface yourself though. Which can be a fun project on itself, check out LVGL Graphics - ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple
