As I stated in a post yesterday on reddit:
I’m taking a survey of how people have their dashboards / wall mounted tablets set up.
If you have a tablet / dashboard set up for home automation (HASS or otherwise) please take a few minutes to fill out this survey? It’ll help the rest of us figure out what deals to jump on when Black Friday / Cyber Monday arrives!
I intend to collect and post all information by November 18th so that it gives us a bit of time to plan.
Thanks!
Hi everyone - I wanted to share the results of the tablet survey I posted a week or two ago. Hope this helps with the upcoming black friday sales. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qoCctNofq9H4zdND8K4nRtpFqK248X6bnTKMdW2p0Gw/edit?usp=sharing
This is the greatest thing ever. Full of tons of useful information! Thank you for this!!
I wonder how things will change over the next couple of years. You should definitely do this again!
anyone using a raspberry pi 2 with an LCD? I read about using cromium kiosk mode on RPi but wander if it’s usable at all.
I’m using a RPi3 with the official touch screen and yes, chromium in kiosk mode.
I have created an html page with html tabs to display/control
Is it reliable and responsive?
Yes, just the same as a 2019 Lenovo Tablet with Android 9.
The only problem I had in the beginning was that Chromium became sluggish after some time.
I solved this by restarting Chromium every night.
I did already own a newly bought RPi with official 7" touch screen which is used as a dedicated mediplayer so I liked the idea of easy to get hardware which runs something that is more futureproof & open then Android dedicated devices.
This 2nd one I bought 2nd hand at a good price.
In the beginning I did manage to get the onscreen keyboard working - that was before running Chromium in Kiosk mode - but the keyboard was covering to much of the screen which was not convenient.
So now I don’t use it to input anything, just as a HA dashboard and to control my mediaplayer.
Thank you! Will buy an LCD to try out.