The ULTIMATE Smart Home Control Panel! (1 year later)
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Previously I made a step-by-step guide on making a #dashboard / #controlpanel for your #smarthome using an Amazon Fire HD10 tablet and Fully Kiosk Browser. Since then, I've made a few changes, and even installed a second one. Some of my subscribers have had questions, so I try to answer them in this video as I revisit one of my most popular projects. Thanks for watching!
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00:42 Overview of Project (components & cost)
01:33 Changes since my last video
03:55 Choosing a tablet, mount, etc.
05:49 Installation
07:30 How we use it in daily life
12:25 Final thoughts - control panels are useful!
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Thanks always for your tutorials. I in fact followed your first tutorial to build my dashboard tablet. But I engaged with someone to mount and conceal the cables for me.
What I'd like to improve is my dashboard layout. I seem to like your new dashboard. Would you be able to share the config please? Thanks a bunch.
Thanks! Sure, I'll try to update my GitHub this evening. If you have other questions, join my discord and I can try to help out!
What's your github and how to join discord?
Here you go...
Discord: discord.gg/cb7jNh37p2
GitHub: github.com/makeitworktech/home-assistant-config
Thanks for the details.
I, unknowingly to my wife and son, prepared a tablet as a wall panel, and set it up last Saturday when they were both out.
I figure my son would love it (he could also ignore it, teenagers are hard to read sometimes), and my wife would go meh.
Turns out both of them say they will no longer use physical switches, they prefer the panel. 😂
My kid asked if we can set up his own tablet, that he doesn't use anymore, to place a panel on his bedroom.
This is by far one of the best home assistant control panel videos i've found on youtube. Learned a lot, and plan on copying your setup!
Thank you 🙏
When you build your own, I'd love it if you'd share pics on Discord! I want to get ideas for my third one haha
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
I have 3 fire tablets for dash displays now. I use the fully kiosk as well for door bell sounds and motion events on cameras fire at certain times they are pushed full screen for 10 seconds to all tablets played right off the live feed from my blue iris. (that features is in fully kiosk, not in lovelace)
That's cool! I've never tried blue iris, but I need to!
Awesome! How did you do the full screen? You say that is a fully kiosk function?
@@isosahir fully kiosk has a rest api can you can call "playVideo" and pass parameters like what media to play ect. So i pass the hls stream of my cameras, with the config option that if i tap the screen it ends the video. otherwise 10 seconds later a call is made to stop the playback.
@@CrankyCoder Do you happen to have examples on GitHub? also, is it possible to pull the stream from the tablet camera into blue iris?
Hi Aaron, Thanks for the video! I like the swipe cards. Never used them before, but they seem very handy the way you implemented them. 👍🏻
Thanks!! Yeah, they give you a lot more info at your fingertips with a wall tablet!
@@makeitworktech Is there a particular swipe card that you used? I would really like more information on how you created the dashboard, as there are a lot of well done features on yours.
It's the swipe card from HACS! Thanks! I'm planning on doing a video next on dashboards, and also planning to do a livestream to answer questions about it.
@@makeitworktech is this the one? bramkragten/swipe-card, looks like it has been archived
Looks like it! Still can grab it from HACS, but I guess it won't be updated in the future
I has an older Windows 10 Surface pro sitting around so I used that for a wall mounted dashboard. I have it permanently powered, battery limit set to 50%, a nearby motion sensor for lighting triggers the surface screen to wake using Hass Agent, Alexa enabled on it too and it works a treat. I bought a mount from a chap in the Netherlands who 3D prints his own custom items.
That's a great use for an old machine! Does it use a lot of power or no? I have a surface 1 that still works but it's power hungry.
Awesome! I’ll Definitively build my own tablet dashboard!
Thanks! It's definitely fun to use!
One of the coolest dashboard I've seen so far. Thank you for sharing in so much detail. Can you do a video on how to install the weekly forecast card? Most of the videos on TH-cam refers to the tutorial in Europe but not much for US.
Thanks! I can try to include that card at some po9int in a dashboard video. It is the custom weather card from HACS
Thanks for another great video! Please do a video on setting up the Lovelace dashboard with the swipe cards! 😁
Thanks! I'll move that to the top of my list!
Yes! Second this. Just found your channel and it’s been super helpful
Thanks! Will do
I find the dashboard great for arming and disarming my home assistant alarm and when a lights off automation fails 🤬 I also use dakboard to display a family calendar and photos when idle. Love the swipe cards, definitely stealing that 😂
Ah family photos while idle is a great idea! I'll have to set that up!
Swipe cards are great for sure!
Great video! Stumbled upon this video…informative!
Thanks!!
If you want to do smart charging get a Chargie. It goes in line with your usb feed and has a background app that does all the work. I have not connection to Chargie I am only a happy customer. I have now bought two more so I have a total of three. The only downside is that their app is not viewable through Home Assistant but if you have the Fully Kiosk integration your battery level and in plugged in are there plus you get a great history of your smart charging. Best part is the Chargie is an inexpensive addition. I really like your videos by the way. Keep them coming.
Awesome video. Subscribed! I'll be doing this in my home one day soon.
Thanks!! 🙏
Thanks for the video! Great solution, I'm working on helping automate my dads house with control4 and adding additional functionality with homeassistant on a server we setup for him. Might have to sell him on a tablet in kiosk mode for controller.
Thanks! I've heard of control4 but never actually seen it! It's older, I assume?
@@makeitworktech No it is very modern, the only thing is it isn't very DIY friendly, a lot of the programming has to be done through a contractor and the house has to be wired for it to the switches so harder to add-on to later. There is a control4 service in homeassistant that gives you light control so I'm adding that and then letting him tie in everything else separately. Tunneling into his network with Tailscale so I can help him edit it as needed.
Ah ok. Maybe one day contractors will install home assistant!
This is amazing. Looking to do the same. Thanks for the advice.
Hope it helps!
Thanks for the video, I came across this from another person's video on dashboards. Lots of different ideas. I will need to make mine old school to get some family approval. Hummmm...
Haha for me it starts with a theme! Pick an old school one, and then make a stained wooden frame for your tablet
Gained inspiration from these videos and being innovative with the dashboard. Made huge strides in the past few weeks with the coding and setup... one thing I'm wondering, how did you optimize your dashboard for your tablet? Just logging in, seeing how wildly odd the size is, and go back to the drawing board... or something way more efficient? Thanks for everything you do!
Haha thanks! What I do is use the "layout-card" HACS mod to define the max width of any card. Based on that, I know that my dashboard can be three cards wide, and then it's just a matter of playing with the heights of each card using "card-mod" until they all line up at the bottom.
I went over some of this in my live stream, I know it's long form but if you want to see some more of what I did, that's a good place to start. If you have more questions, feel free to hop on my Discord
@@makeitworktech might take you up on the discord piece, I've watched your live stream all the way through and a few portions multiple times for giggles - ill have to circle back through on the layout card, thanks again!
Discord link in the description!
@@makeitworktech Hi - where can I find this live stream? thanks for your content.
Can you make a playlist for the wall mounted tablet? The hardware, software and dashboard videos make an excellent combination.
Here you go! I'll add my next dashboard video to it as well!
th-cam.com/play/PLUTKOGJvdIQ8neoM4GVVDQ0-taFEtepIZ.html
omg the swipe card that's perfect thank you!
No problem!
Great video Aaron! ;)
Thank you very much, BT!!
Thanks for sharing. Just ordered a fire 10 HD. Do you have a video on how you pop the doorbell cam up automatically and then suppress after a period of time?
Thanks! No, I don't have a video, but you can just use a REST command, which are documented on FK's website. If you want to see how I do it, hope on my discord (link in description). We've discussed it there and you can find the yaml for the automatoin
Hi, great videos! Just curious if you have have been able to control the volume of your fire tablet HD10 2021 in HA via an automation or command? Thanks
Looks like you can with a REST command!
www.fully-kiosk.com/en/#rest
I'm a newbie . It will be great if you could explain the steps to import the configurations & template into my dashboard . thanks for your help .
I have a tablet that I put Fully Kiosk on, but I am struggling with the lovelace interface. Yours looks 1000x better than mine
Yeah, Lovelace takes time to learn! My last video goes over some pointers with building it!
amazing!
Thanks!
Hey awesome video, I if you did do it in the bedroom would you disable the video? I and would you set it to DIM at night or turn off the screen?
Thanks! I would probably disable video yeah, and Id use a bed sensor to only turn it on when I got out of bed
I'd love for you to do a video about your shift from tuya. It's pretty hard to find plugs and bulbs that are non-cloud and compatible with home assistant, would love some suggestions
hmmm, I'll add it to the list!
I made a video covering HA-compatible plugs if you're looking for that... There are tons out there!
th-cam.com/video/O7pC1oI86gg/w-d-xo.html
I'm actually going to start working on a bulb comparison video pretty soon, because I'm also looking for bulbs that are not Tuya based.
Aaron, nice video with some great info! I'm in the design process of setting up my dashboard. I wanted to track my family member locations and currently use Life360. As you know, Life360 has dropped "external" support. So, I need to switch to something else. I was curious what you were using for your people dashboard card? Also, do you happen to know where I can find out more information about re-creating a card like you have or are you able to share your code for that?
Thanks! I actually just use the Home Assistant companion app to track location, which it does pretty well. If you want to see the code for my people dashboard, check out my GitHub linked in the description!
Might get a tablet myself for KIOSK modus.
Would you suggest a Windows based tablet or a android based tablet for this.
[I am the sole user, so either would be fine for me]
Have you tried the ha cast option where you can cast a dashboard to a device? I prefer webpage directly, but I was wondering your thoughts. Did you setup separate dashboards specific to the tablets in their particular areas or just use a generic dashboard? I do still think fully kiosk is one of the best ways to create a dashboard, unless you want to really muck around using app daemon, which is something I have never managed to master.
Battery life.... You'd have to keep the smart charging to keep the tablet between 50 and 75% charge for longest battery life. Never fully charge and never let it fall too low. that 50 to 75% is where the LION batteries are most stable and happy.
Nice video!
Is there a chance you can share the YAML code behind the two persons icons with the option to know if they're home or not? It's the only thing missing for me in my dashboard.
Thanks! Yup, link to my github in the description!
Hi, have you got a video on how you made your dashboard as want much of mine to look like yours? thanks
Yeah, dashboards for beginners
Hi what cameras do you have? Seems very response integration. I don't have a ring doorbell but instead use Ring Floodlight cameras got 4 of them and use it with Tasker to click the notification when someone approaches the door. It's hit and miss so just seeing what alternatives there are out there. Ring deprecating Rapid Ring App also doesn't help.
Also thanks for this I used the family code it's great. I've a amazon fireHD mounted in hallway , living room and upstairs and just want to upgrade my dashboard to make it even better so your tips are grat.
I use Wyze V2 cameras flashed with RTSP firmware. Nice sounds like you're set up nicely!
Wow! Looks amazing!! Mine is so simple 😅 but i would love to put a big clock like yours, how do yo did it?😍
That clock is a custom card called digital clock
@@makeitworktech thanks!! got it :)
Love the dashboard. What card are you using for the Family display? That's my favorite card.
thanks! It's based on the custom button card, but very complex. I talked about it in my livestream, and you can find the code on my github
I was able to finally get it working. Indentation was kicking my butt. Much appreciated!
i like your dashboard, do you have a guide on how to set something like that?
Working on that, plus a livestream coming soon!
Hey! I don't know if this was answered in another video of yours... But how did you get HA to switch to a completely dedicated view when the doorbell is rung? I could only get it to show a conditional picture-at-a-glance card, but I was hoping for full screen... Please let me know! 🥂
Also.. What do you use for card organization? Grids? Stack cards? I'm trying to stop my tablet from accidentally scrolling and can't seem to figure it out.. Thank you in advance!
Hey Matt! That automation wasn't covered in the video, but I did cover it on our Discord. If you pop over there, you can see how we do it. Basically you create a view that has a Panel (full page) card of your doorbell feed, and then an automation that navigates to that page, keeps it there for 1 min, and then brings it back to the original page.
I use Stack cards and Stack-In-Cards for card organization
How would I look in to doing the doorbell press event where it shows who's at the door?
I have an automation that does it. There's a discussion on discord if interested
ok wow. how did u make that widget slides? and the camera to show up when someone presses the doorbell? i am gonna check your other videos, see if i find the answer there.
if not, and you see this video... i would like to see a video tutorial please.
thanks
The card "sliding" is using the "swipe card" from HACS. It is not archived in GitHub, so you have to add it via custom repository (making a video). We've been discussing how to do the doorbell thing on my discord, so I'd head over there if you want to see how or if you have further questions
I cant seem to find an available mount kit for this exact tablet. Any leads? Thanks.
Try Mike's?
mbmounts.com/collections/tablet-mounts/products/amazon-fire-tablet-wall-mount
Is it also possible to use a iPad 3 for this?
Or are there problems (with FullyKiosk, ...?
Because you can get a used iPad 3 very cheap, like 10$. And there are also many 3D-print-cases because of it's wide use.
iPad doesn't allow the kind of control of their devices, so apps like Fully Kiosk wouldn't work unfortunately
i've noticed that you use avatar image for your presence pictures in HA. may i ask where you found and/or created those?
Yup, I used bitmoji.com
I would be interested in seeing how you got the date/ time to look so good
I discussed it a little bit in my first livestream, and you can also find my yaml in my github. Hope either of those help!
Really cool dashboard! Have you got a more detailed video on how to?
Thanks! Do you mean how to set up the tablet, or how to do the lovelace dashboard itself?
@@makeitworktech How to setup lovelace I meant. Thanks
Ah ok. I plan to do a video on dashboards... Maybe I can show that!
@@makeitworktech Looking forward. Thanks
I followed your first video and I have been using my tablet as a dashboard for almost a year. The problem that I faced was with the Smart USB Outlet. I ordered two and both stopped working. I moved to a common outlet with a Shelly.
Good idea! Which Shelly?
@@makeitworktech I used the Shelly 1 behind the outlet. So far, so good
I really liked your dashboard. I have taken quite a few ideas. How do you refresh the browser on a regular basis? I see that my own battery charge was at 25%, I looked to plug my phone in only to see it already plugged in and at 100%. So I look back at the kiosk and it was 4 hours old on the clock, and not updating.
Thanks! I use the battery percentage from the Home Assistant app (also installed on the tablet) rather than the battery info that FK gives you
I have alexa devices, would they work with the fully kiosk browser? I mean can i make this control panel with alexa devices?
I don't think so, unfortunately
any luck finding an stl for the wall mount brackets. i have 2 printers here and REALLY hard to justify spending that much for a 3dprinted part when i have 2 printers here lol
Nothing that would fit on mine! I'll have to keep digging!
Could you share the person card yaml ? I want to compact mine and this looks good . Thanks
Sure, it's on my GitHub. Link in description
@@makeitworktech You are awesome. Thank you very much looks cool. 😉
6:12 whaaat?? Do you have a live, neutral and earth wires connected (sourced) to all your light switches? Is it specific to your house or that how it's in US? I have seen it only once here in Europe. Seems to be a big waste, but kinda useful in some cases (like this one).
So I'm watching your video and I have a Ring doorbell (not the doorbell you have) but I want to do the same thing. When the Ring doorbell is depressed (they call it a Ding) it's state goes from "clear" to "detected". I want full screen video from the Ring for 30 seconds following a Ding. I haven't figured out how to do that in an automation yet. I did download the new Ring MQTT integration which everybody seems to be glowing over but when I make the automation I can't get anything to work.
My condition is: "Front Door Ding changes from clear to detected"
My action is "Ring MQTT with video streaming"
Help?
trying to replicate what you have for your person trackers... Instead of the image I have for myself showing.. I get /api/image/s...... cant see anything past the letter "s" .. when i click the button.. it shows my image on the map like normal . My Image shows up fine on Dwains dashboard ( but i dont like DD) ..shows up fine as a small entity card..but not something bigger like this. Are you using a custom card? Looks like a glance card possibly. I was just trying to use two button cards on a grid for two people. Any help would be great
They're actually custom button cards, you can check out my config in my GitHub which is linked in the description. Hope it helps!
Hi, What a awesome video you’ve put together, you really know your stuff!
I’m running on my dressing tables Alexa Echo Show 3rd Gen, and throughout my home LIFX lights, Reolink security cameras and Ring Door bells Cameras and I’d love to use an iPad which I have currently, instead of an extra cost of purchasing a Amazon Fire tablet, but I can’t find the Fully Kiosk App in the Apple Store, could you please help me out with an awesome App to use because the Fully Kiosk looks Amazing and I’d love to hear from you as soon as you have some spare time to look into it for me.
So I look forward to hearing from you soon, take care.
Cheers
Mark
Hi Mark, from what I understand there aren't any apps like that for iOS because Apple doesn't like to give you (or apps) this kind of control over their devices. I have looked into this, but I haven't seen anyone that has been able to access the camera of the iPad as a motion sensor or camera entity in HA. The best I've seen is someone using an iPad and the "browser_mod" app with their iPad. They used the browser_mod to turn their screen on and off based on motion, but the motion detection was from an external sensor. Here's the link to their post: community.home-assistant.io/t/fully-kiosk-type-app-for-ipad-tablet/107773/18
If you have other questions, feel free to join my discord server!
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How did you get your armcrest to show video on door press for a minute?
I used an automation that has a Fully Kiosk rest command to send the tablet the URL of another Lovelace page that has the doorbell feed as a Fullscreen card. Then after a minute, the automation sends a rest command with the URL of the original Lovelace page. Hop on my discord if you have more questions!
Hello, i drive a 2005 maxda 3 with bose radio. I have a kenwood ddx 492, one amp gor mids and highs and one amp for my sub and a kenwood eq. I connected bose, rq and mids and high amp no problem
Here is my priblem, i connected my sub amp to antenna remote wire and amp will not turn on, then i connected amp to blue and white wire and amp turns on on acc and key on but it will not turn on when eengine is on? Please help its so annoying thank you in advance
Hi. Which platform did you decide to use for home automation? Tuya?
Hone Assistant!
Is there a way to do a video call between dashboards in different rooms? I am also looking for a way to leave a video message so that it waits for the person to come back home and watch it later.
Not that I know of, sorry! That would be a cool feature!
Is it possible to use echo show for control panel?
Sort of... you can connect HA to Alexa and control the devices from there
FWIW I've had a couple of tablets permanently plugged in for a couple of years without any obvious ill effects. (The battery will probably explode tomorrow now I've said that out loud). What are you using for the date/time card in the centre of the screen
Good to know! Yeah I'm thinking that the device will be too slow before the battery swells haha
The center card is the custom:digital-clock card from HACS
A good video, but it looks like when wiring your outlet you are using yellow 12/2, but it looks like those switches are white 14/2. For code compliance, you shouldn't mix these.
Thanks! It actually 12/2, just white instead of yellow because the yellow color-coding is more recent than most of the wiring in my house. That's not to say whoever originally wired the place did it to code... Pretty sure 3-conductor wire wasn't used for any of the 3-way switches
You can mix 12/2 and 14/2. Lol
Is an HA blue required to run home assistant on a Fire HD 10? Im new to setting up this type control panel. So far our smart home devices include Hue smart bulbs, as well as Hue Bridge, ring doorbell, some motion sensors and wireless remotes and dimmers placed in the usual light switch locations for visitors etc., and several echo devices for voice command.
So with this, we would like to put everything in one location as a control dashboard. But im a bit unclear on what is fully necessary to run HA…..hope someone can help. Thanks
I think I responded to this comment on another video
That into got me thinking i was watching the diamond mine cart
wut?
Could you please share the yaml code for the digital clock on your dashboard. Using the card mod with the custom digital clock card didn't work for me. Thanks.
Link to my github in description. It has my latest yaml
@@makeitworktech Got it. Thanks
What do you think about Fibaro or SmartThings devices? 😊
I like SmartThings devices. Fibaro are overpriced in my opinion
@@makeitworktech Oh, that's an interesting opinion, why do you think so? 🤔 Well I was thinking about it because I find out about SIM-ON app lately and it's cooperating with these two at this moment. Guess I will have to do more research 😆 Unfortunately I can't find any review of SIMLAB products from any 'stranger' 🙄Hope there will be sth soon
This seems to be the easiest way I've seen, I'd probably put the tablet in the wall. Thanks.
Yeah, the second time around is much easier than the first, but still it's not bad. Thanks!
Ok I think I have made a mistake in my planning, I thought that if you run tuya products through home assistant it makes them local?
Only if you use the Local Tuya custom integration... The native integration is cloud based
@@makeitworktech Is a local Tuya custom integration easy to do? My mistake of routing it through HA to make it local makes me sad both nerd and financially lol
Haha, it isn't too bad. You have to get the local key for each device that you want to add, which takes some time. I have tested it but haven't bothered switching over, but I make sure that anything critical in my home is not Tuya cloud based.
How about using Rhasspy with this to make it truly local control?
Excellent idea! I actually never knew that Rhasspy existed until very recently, but I definitely want to give it a try!
Amazing video you do inspire me to get a fire tablet and make a smart dashboard for my hallway area. I wanted to know the specs of the machine that you are running HA on? The reason I ask is because I run my HA on docker on an Intel Celeron J3455 1.50Ghz 8gb RAM but when I try to view my camera stream, its very laggy and not smooth. I was told on the HA forums its due to my NUC specs.
What's your view?
Thanks
The fire tablet video will be super low frame rate - it will definitely be choppy, and shouldn't have anything to do with your specs. I'm not sure why it is that low
@@makeitworktech what do you mean by the firetablet video?
I run a home assistant blue.
What camera stream are you referring to? I thought you were saying that the camera stream from the fire tablet's camera in HA is slow.
@@makeitworktech just in general your camera streams work quick. What cameras do you use if I may ask ?
Ah ok. I use Wyze cameras flashed with RTSP firmware (very easy to do)
Having to charge the tablet on the wall would drive me nuts! I would get a smart socket that goes into the wall and a smart button tasked to turn the power to the plug on and off.
How do control charging of tablet, since it is continuously connected to power ?
The outlet that I was using has a smart USB port so I can turn the charging on and off via an automation. I made a whole video on that here: th-cam.com/video/n2DRz9QBXDs/w-d-xo.html
There is a new programing language call yaml and json? :D
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This was awesome. I've been looking to hook up my house with home assistant and get things automated. Could you do more than one tablet? Such as one on the first floor and another on the second? Also, what about a mobile app?
Yeah, I have one on each floor! Mobile app is solid!
All this trouble, and the wife uses it as a digital clock! 😂
Yes! Although my wife does use the announcements... Repeatedly haha
Wife use it to tell everyone that dinner are ready? What an old school view.
Sometimes old-school isn't a bad thing!
I set up a Dashboard with fully as well which works great. I want to change the Fully current URL using a button on my main dashboard to get to pages I don't have to view that often. I'm sure this is very easy but I just can't get it to work. Any one an idea?
You can use a rest command to do this (REST API is documented on the FK website), but if you hop on my discord I can send you formatted code.
Any reason why you're not using the navigate action? Something like this for a button card:
tap_action:
action: navigate
navigation_path: livingroom
@@makeitworktech Got it. I did not know about the navigation path......that solved my problem in 5 minutes. Thanks a lot.
The tabletop with magnetic charging dock looks less out of place and you can pick it up and use it as a tablet for a while. Can't remember who's video was it.
Yeah, I really wanted a wall mount where the kids can't reach it. That was @smarthomesolver who showed that I think
Actually I think smart charging isn't needed or actually the battery it self isn't cuz if power is down you most likely don't have a ups for your router anyways so it would not do anything
I did use a old tablet as wall control panel and two phone as cctv and I removed the battery to prolong the life of tablet and not heat up the only down side is u need to power it on manually when needed
It may be possible to make it auto power up but my device is not possible to root so it's not possible for me
Smart charging is to preserve the battery, so it doesn't become a spicy pillow.
probably a pastebin link of the dashboard might help us to replicate some of it
I'll put it on my GitHub this evening if I get a chance
github.com/makeitworktech/home-assistant-config
your tablet too beautiful but especially your cards ..... I want the editor of your cards 😭😭😭😭😭
My gihub has the yaml for my dashboard!
Hah! Your robovac is called Betsy?! No joke, I wanted to call ours Betsy when we got it at the time, but the kids named it Bethanie. So this must be a thing then!?
Haha awesome! Our first was actually called Johnny Rocket, but this one I chose the name, and Betsy it is haha
Must be a thing!
Dashboard are great but you have to enable Alexa and very selective smart plugs work Alexa.
This dashboard is for Home Assistant. Many smart plugs work with Home Assistant, and these devices can then be connected to Alexa if desired.
This whole "tablet as dashboard" is great.
"Sadly" here in the EU we don't have cardboard walls, which kinda makes the whole thing more complicated.
Planning on something similar, but I'll probably have to use a cable channel
Ah, that's a bummer! What are your walls made of?
@@makeitworktech solid concrete :D
Guess there is no way around cable channels...
Plus I don't think my landlord would be okay with me, literally ripping open the concrete walls, using whatever heavy tool I'd need because "I want a tablet on my wall"
Gotta see what I can do.
Just ordered a Fire HD 8, because I'm literally not gonna use it for anything else, 8" is enough for me, and it was over 50% less than a Fire HD 10.
Sadly I gotta wait for my ISP to unlock my internet first tho, but then I'm getting into this whole home assistant stuff.
Been only using the "native" stuff before like Hue and Tapo
Ah yeah that could be a problem! 😂
Well, enjoy Home Assistant, it's an awesome platform and the learning curve gets less steep fairly quickly! Hop on my discord if you have questions or anything and I can try to answer when possible!
@@makeitworktech have you ever tested out, how long the tablet would survive on battery?
With it mostly displaying static images and only when motion is detected, i thought i might just actually use it on battery... could be an option.
I'd have no issues with loading it like 1x a week or so
No I haven't tried. Depends on how much you walk up to it and trigger screen on
When this guy is hacked the can litterlay can lock him up in his own house and enter the house whenever the want to. Thats one of the reason why camera's only need to be outside or in a hallway and no smart locks.
Welcome to Home Assistant, where nothing is accessible outside the local network!
@02:45 Dude, please please do set up a smart USB port for your tablet.
One small part is to do with battery life, but more importantly, batteries don't like being on power all the time.
Case in point. During covid I was remote working with my laptop in the office and me remoting in to it to work.
After being on power 24/7 for 18+ months, the internal battery got so swollen that it deformed the keyboard to the lid couldn't close.
But more importantly, letting it swell made it a likely fire hazard.
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I have a new battery, but left it to the side as it'd go the same way as the other one. If I need it to be mobile then I can easily put the new battery in.
When I took out the damaged one it looked like a fat poptart :D
Yeah, I made a whole video about that. I guess we'll see which of my tablets dies first, the one that is "smart charging", or the one that isn't!
no one notices the DanTDM intro song at the beginning? ok
Never heard of him!
@@makeitworktech He was a Minecraft TH-camr back in like 2012-2013, that's what got him his fame, I think he has something like 20 million subscribers now
Wow, crazy, I just looked him up
drop the intro music
Thanks for the feedback
Your not doing anything for battery bloating on the tablet? Should use a smart outlet so you can drain the battery on the tablet to 20% and then have it turn on the outlet to charge it to 80%, then let it go up and down like that daily to prevent bloat.
I'm doing that on my other one. Made an entire video about it. Long term comparison between the two
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application.
1 year later:
Over internet, the government has access to your door and locks it, if you got no permission over your social app on your phone to unlock your door...
That's what they call: China Style Lockdown.
Local control! No government access unless I say so!
Jesus Christ, you let it record all that data? Those smart locks aren't secure but, hey maybe it's safe neighborhood. A lot people say "oh you have smart phone anyways but some carry dum phones for privacy or have privacy oriented smart phone that are de-googled" I like home assistant because you can do non clouded connected lan only setups. I don't mind a few cloud things till I find something better but good God, phone, location battery, ecoh 24/ recording, smart locks. I get it you have nothing to hide but, daaanng that's intrusive. To each his own. Edit: also nice dash board, I'll be damned if it doesn't look great!
Haha, thanks! Yeah, we all need to understand the risks!
1st View❤️🔥
Legend!
Echo Show 15 is better version of this.
I didn't know they could display Home Assistant dashboards! From what I saw they were...pretty bad
I would never buy anything 3D printed on Ebay or Epsy as most everything is stolen designs, the seller didn't design it.
Too bad. This guy designs his own, doesn't copy from others.
That intro music was awful. Way too hot, adjust your levels down. It was nothing but clipping and static. :(
Hmmm, strange, it doesn't sound that way on my headphones. I'm getting better at sound editing, sorry about that!
Make your own Wallmount, dont buy this expensive chinese crap...
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