Turned an old Android Phone into a wall mounted smart switch for HA

[Devon_S_Ramdass (T3CHSMASH)]

I used an old smartphone I had lying around to create a wall-activated sort of smart switch for everything in my HA configuration!

I Turned an Old Android Phone into a Wave Activated Smart Switch

[touliloup (Romain)]

Nice video, even though we just learn how to fix a case to a wall ^^ But it’s still a nice introduction to home-assistant for someone not knowing it.

You can also have a look at this topic:

Wall Mounted Dashboard (now known as HADashboard)

I really love the stock HA UI for hand held devices both on tablets and phones, but as my eyes grow dim with age, I find it to be hard to get useful information from across a room, and also for some reason trying to hit the small links for scenes and scripts with my palsied trembling hands is difficult. And there is also the issue of all that bright light hurting my poor eyes at night … When I was using Smart Things for my automation, there was a community project created by a user called Flori…

[Devon_S_Ramdass (T3CHSMASH)]

haha thanks! This looks really great. Will check it out now.

[GraysonPeddie]

Nice! I would like to have a touch-based smart wall switch plugged in, though.

If I could have a wireless charger built into the wall and then use a smartphone that supports wireless charging, I think that would work with no cord hanging from the smartphone that doesn’t have a SIM card installed.

[touliloup (Romain)]

Then you could directly integrate the smartphone in the wall, that way you would have a control panel and not just a phone on that wall