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What Kiosk Tablet? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I've been using an Amazon tablet with Fully Kiosk for a few months but it frankly sucks ass. Keeps resetting itself or kicking back to the Amazon home screen to name a few issues.

If money isn't a factor, what tablet do you think would be the dream choice for integrating as a wall mountable Hass tablet?

Fully Kiosk is a great app but still very hacky, so I'd like a tablet that doesn't require workarounds to keep it in kiosk mode.

I hate telemetry and spyware as well so I guest that puts anything Amazon or Google based out of the equation.

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[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use to have the same thing but moved away from the tablet solution and I got myself a pi, and then setup a script to auto start (after boot and auto login) the browser in full screen "kiosk" mode on my home assistant site. I then bought this to attach to it:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0153R2A9I

I also bought a case for the screen and pi to fit in for a nice visual display (although these days the thing is embedded in my wall), but it looks like the case is now unavailable so might require looking around for one.

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

This is what I would do if I had the time to spare. I'm surprised there isn't a market for custom Homeassistant tablet devices.