To get straight to the point, I want to wall-mount a screen roughly 10-inches in size to my wall and control it via Home Assistant.
In my searching I have discovered a very nice looking Tuya one that seems to have a great user interface and am wondering if there’s a way to make it work with Home Assistant.
If you’re not going to use Lovelace, you’ll probably have to write your own browser-based front-end, and have it interface with the HA APIs on the backend. Maybe there are projects out there that do this, but I’d think most developer’s time would be better spent working on custom integrations into Lovelace.
Your time would be better spent making Lovelace look exactly how you want, rather than try to program or hack a custom UI into HA. I can’t say for sure, but you should be able to re-use that display to run LoveLace, but you may have some issues depending on how locked down it is. If you have to re-flash the OS, then those buttons probably won’t work without some effort.
Anything really, just something that’d make it work with Home Assistant was what I was thinking originally.
However, after looking into it further I believe these are just running Android, so I guess it may be possible to sideload an app on there and whip something up that way. Be it a heavily themed lovelace via the companion app, or something like Ovio that has a modern design.
I’m still on the fence about buying it as it is quite expensive for a device that might work. This post was to see if there is anything like it, but I’ll keep thinking about it, then probably end up buying it anyway lol.
This is true, I guess I just wanted an easy solution that came w/ built-in wall mount, PoE, Proximity sensor etc.
I’ll look into the tablets and see what I/they can do.