What is the closest solution to this Hub I can buy/build?

Hardware
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Hi all,

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.

See here: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNB8Udu

I am looking for something with the following features if possible.

  • Proximity Sensor
  • Customisable Hardware Keys (Activate Scenes/Toggle Lights etc)
  • Decent screen resolution
  • Nice fluent looking UI (support for themes maybe?)

I want it to be something a bit nicer looking than Lovelace.

Does anyone have any recommendations for this sort of thing or know if we can reflash/modify a screen like this?

Kind regards

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Reflash with what?

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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.

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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.

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If you want something that runs ovio, then there are plenty of cheaper options. Any android tablet for example.

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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.

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There are poe tablets galore on Aliexpress, generally industrial.