Tablet...do I need other software?

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Hello,

I’ve been working on HA for several months and in the meantime everything seems to work more or less the way I want.

In addition to my laptop & smartphone, I bought a tablet yesterday, on which I also installed the HA app.

In the meantime, via browser_mod I have also succeeded in having the correct dashboard (with the camera image) appear on the tablet when motion is detected (which was an important aspect for me and reason for purchasing the tablet).

Now I read on the forum of “Fully Kiosk Browser” and “WallPanel” (maybe there are others)…

Am I right in saying that you need this if you want the option to make the screen pop up or go out within HA (or even with sound/movement in the vicinity of the tablet)? And also if you want to be able to use the tablet only for HA (users don’t have access to other apps), which is not the case in my situation (I also just want to be able to use it as a normal tablet).

Thank you very much for the clarification!

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From my experience… wallpanel and fully kiosk are meant to run continuously as a ‘kiosk’ in the front and as such they can steer the a.o. inputs from camera and sound.
I am not sure what you want to do with the tablet but if you want to use it for a kiosk-function and normal use at the same time then this will probably not work.
Myself, I have a tablet glued to a wall which is continuously running wallpanel and I have also not (!) blocked it for other use…but the key use is kiosk through wallpanel. I tried fully before but this was not stable…possibly tablet depending.