10/4/2023 0 Comments Smart home control panel homekit![]() The control panel however, should be placed in a different location where it can easily be reached and used. In my place I use a Raspberry Pi with nymea:core which is placed to cover the most part of my home (including balcony) with Bluetooth so sensors are within a reachable distance. So eventually I decided to look for an alternative and ended up with a Raspberry Pi with a 7" touchscreen panel. While it would probably be possible to get an Android device to cater for the use case it seemed a lot of fiddling against the OS. There's more such issues I've encountered while trying. ![]() Next thing is that mobile operating systems don't like apps running all the time in kiosk mode, yes, Android has a feature to lock an app to foreground but there are still cases where it wouldn't do the right thing. ![]() One example is waking up the screen: Phones typically have a hardware button on the side to turn on the screen which gets a real challenge to do if the thing sticks on a wall. Phones are built for a pocket and that causes a lot of small fiddly issues when used in a different context. Initially I wanted to wall-mount a phone or tablet but results weren't that great. All it takes is to download the nymea image and flash it to the Raspberry Pi with a screen and the setup as described below will work out of the box.įor a while now I'm using nymea as my smart home solution with nymea:core on a Raspberry Pi and nymea:app on my phone. This project description is now obsolete as the latest nymea Raspberry Pi image has the UI for the touch screen directly integrated.
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