This question pops up regularly: what is a good (wall)tablet for HA.
I just coincidentally bumped on a video from a Ytuber that does an in depth presentation for 2 models (portrait & landscape)
They have POE, stock Android 13/14 and foreseen to be used on a wall.
I have no affiliation with any of this but just wanted to share this with the community since I think they are good candidates.
This is the video in which both models are reviewed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBU4yU9eD2U
EDIT: in this post by Orange-GT3 you find a link for a 15,6" model from the same seller.
I’ve actually watched the review video now and paid closer attention to the links to the devices and they are sold by the same seller that I bought my unit from. Therefore, the 9.7", 10.1" and 15.6" tablets that we are discussing are all the same apart from their size. Mine is the older version with Android 13 which does not come with the Kiosk mode or the MQTT interface, however I contacted the seller through AE and they advised that an updated firmware is available that adds the MQTT interface. I have yet to receive that from them but will report back when (if) I do.
In terms of the review, I would agree about the relative slowness of the older, Android 13 model. I find mine to be less than snappy which is why I will probably buy one of the newer, more powerful, Android 14 models and then use my existing tablet in a less critical location.
Yours has probably also a 4core CPU as being mentioned in the video
I have been using an Android tablet for 5y which also became to sluggish and doesn’t receive updates beyond v10 so I repurposed it for a HA dashboard and got a newer 8core model.
The seller got back to me and sent me the updated firmware, installation tools and instructions. It was an easy process to update and now the tablet has the Kiosk and MQTT functionality, but still on Android 13, which I expected.
I have connected it to Mosquitto Broker and have the light control, relay switches and temperature and humidity sensors, as per the review video.
That’s a good little upgrade since the light control API that they originally sent me was completely beyond me!
Does anyone have any experience with the tabwee p15 (digital calendar)?
I see it a lot on my search for a wall display recently.
If it runs an open android, it would be perfect.
But it looks to be locked down to a digital calendar.
I really would be worried about missing certification in terms of electrical engineering/security. This thing runs 24/7.
in terms of performance, I wonder how it would compare against the Shelly Wall Display XL though, that would be interesting to know...
Funny timing — this is the exact rabbit hole I went down. Those 9.7"/10.1" (and @Orange-GT3's 15.6") are all the same Rockchip Android family, and what Orange-GT3 ran into is the heart of it: getting the LEDs/sensors/MQTT working depends on the seller bothering to ship updated firmware for your particular model and Android version. Some get it, some don't.
That bugged me enough that I ended up writing an open-source app to do it instead — ha-paneld — so the panel just shows up in Home Assistant over MQTT without waiting on a vendor firmware update. It's free; I mostly wanted these things usable in HA without every model being its own little project.
On the sluggishness a couple of you mentioned — that was the other rabbit hole. It can show you what's actually eating the frames on a given panel, so tuning is less of a guess.
It's up on GitHub if it's any use: ha-paneld. Happy to help get a specific panel going.
