Openhab Wall Mounted Tablet

I m curious to see what others have done with charging solutions for wall mounted tablets.

Openhab wall mounted tablet.

It is a semi permanent solution for running home control apps and streaming audio with airplay. It also has some nice tasker profiles that will automatically switch to imperihome when connected to charger it uses the camera as motion sensor and reports motion to oh also turns off the screen if no motion is detected etc. Every settings has a default item name which is also used for example item definitions and rules below. It is running in a android kios browser.

Additionally on the the main house map you can see and control light status see if a window is open a rollershutter is down or should be down. In addition to this i would like to mount a touch screen in my living room to display the openhab basic ui or habpanel. What device can i use for this do i use an ipad or tablet for this or are their devices that are more suitable dedicated for this kind of scenario. I have forseen power and network.

Your setup for a wall mounted tablet. The tablet is then velcro d onto the wall. These dashboards can be designed interactively in the embedded designer rather than using configuration files. The tablet itself is mounted via metal plates on its backside and magnets inside the wall.

Personally i hate wires and don t want to see them. What i can see most of you mounted tablets on wall. That s what i want to do so question is how have you solve charging. Control hardware like control4 savan.

Advantage of such installation is that tablet can be easily take out and i can use it remotely. Problem is that i have not found proper. This in wall ipad mount is recessed flush into the wall 5 8 deep. Designing dashboard interfaces with habpanel.

In wall ipad mount for ipad 2 3 and 4. They all run the openhab app along with android daydream mode which our app has code to support properly so they dim very very. Via a rest api openhab can control display brigtness if i sleep or i m away. And the power the the charger is brought up through the wall.

Send device information to openhab you have to enable every information you want to send in the settings. If you want to use openhab android on a wall mounted tablet go to settings and select disable display timer and fullscreen. Charging module is the cheapest one from ebay speed doesn t matter as tablet is 95 of the time mounted on the charger. The habpanel user interface is installed by default when choosing any initial setup package and allows the creation of user friendly dashboards particularly suited for e g.

I have two cat5 cables on the wall so i am thinking about docking station which i can remotely power on via those cable. Hi i m hosting my openhab server on a synology diskstation everything cool so far.