Android OS on USB stick?
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I want to wall mount a tablet or touch screen monitor in the kitchen. As the touch screen monitors seem to be bigger they are the preffered option but obviously have no operating system.
Is it possible to add the android OS to a usb stick and run it which I could plug in to the monitor?
Guv10 said:
Then i'd have to "hide" that somewhere. Was thinking a USB stick would be easier
I bought a cheapo WiFi airmouse remote for it and hid the box behind the TV.You could get something like a firestick if you must have a smaller format, but from my experience the android TV boxes are a lot better. More powerful processors and a lot more ram for the money.
Can plug USB drives into it too.
Mine runs a 12tb HD and will play 4k videos without a problem.
And you need to consider that they have power buttons that you'll need to be able to access too. Nothing a soldering iron can't fix, but it's a bit risky of course.
I think I would focus on finding the software you need to make it work, then look for the hardware for that. Pretty sure you'll be able to recess a raspberry Pi in one way or another.
What's it for? If it's for watching stuff on then Chromecast may be all you need, if it's for controlling stuff then it might be as easy to run Home Assistant somewhere else and look for something that can simply communicate with Home Assistant and display a Dashboard.
I think I would focus on finding the software you need to make it work, then look for the hardware for that. Pretty sure you'll be able to recess a raspberry Pi in one way or another.
What's it for? If it's for watching stuff on then Chromecast may be all you need, if it's for controlling stuff then it might be as easy to run Home Assistant somewhere else and look for something that can simply communicate with Home Assistant and display a Dashboard.
paulrockliffe said:
And you need to consider that they have power buttons that you'll need to be able to access too. Nothing a soldering iron can't fix, but it's a bit risky of course.
I think I would focus on finding the software you need to make it work, then look for the hardware for that. Pretty sure you'll be able to recess a raspberry Pi in one way or another.
What's it for? If it's for watching stuff on then Chromecast may be all you need, if it's for controlling stuff then it might be as easy to run Home Assistant somewhere else and look for something that can simply communicate with Home Assistant and display a Dashboard.
It's basically going to be a home organiser of sorts, mainly a calender! to do lists etc... nothing to dramtic which is why an Android OS would be ideal just that tablets are quite small.I think I would focus on finding the software you need to make it work, then look for the hardware for that. Pretty sure you'll be able to recess a raspberry Pi in one way or another.
What's it for? If it's for watching stuff on then Chromecast may be all you need, if it's for controlling stuff then it might be as easy to run Home Assistant somewhere else and look for something that can simply communicate with Home Assistant and display a Dashboard.
The market for these things at the moment is either pay a lot - I think Amazon have a decent one don't they? - have a faffy but cheap option, or have exactly what you want, but you have to invest a load of time into the hardware and software yourself. Not loads of really hard stuff, but enough hassle that you have to really want to do it.
Android tablets may be the best compromise, the downsides are that they're not designed for the screen to be always on and usually the power and other buttons are on the side, and of course they usually far more capable than what you're asking, so you're paying for all that unused capability. And then you might think, well why wall mount it in the first place as it would be useful when you're sat in front of the TV etc and you're also nudging your thinking towards, "I can already do all this on my phone, so is it worth it?". Did Google do that detachable display one? That could be a reasonable approach, especially if it mirrors my Google Nest thingy that has the display in that it turns on the display when it detects presence.
If you wanted to put some time into it, a Home Assistant dashboard fed to a touch-screen Paper-ink display would be really neat. You can connect to Google Calendars to get events and tasks, leave the display on all the time and drop controls onto it for central heating, lights, media, weather etc as well as being able to do more bespoke stuff, only limited by your imagination and how much effort you want to put in. You can do Home Assistant with a colour screen and a presence detector to turn the screen on and off, it's just more work.
The think with Home Assistant is that you can just run it as an Android App too, so if you can make Android work, even if it's clunky, you can setup Home Assistant later and then switch over to that later on. Or if you find a big enough screen and want to also be able to watch video or whatever else, Android is going to be the most flexible platform. It's on my list of things to build, but I've not managed to track down a suitable and cost-effective touch-screen yet.
Android tablets may be the best compromise, the downsides are that they're not designed for the screen to be always on and usually the power and other buttons are on the side, and of course they usually far more capable than what you're asking, so you're paying for all that unused capability. And then you might think, well why wall mount it in the first place as it would be useful when you're sat in front of the TV etc and you're also nudging your thinking towards, "I can already do all this on my phone, so is it worth it?". Did Google do that detachable display one? That could be a reasonable approach, especially if it mirrors my Google Nest thingy that has the display in that it turns on the display when it detects presence.
If you wanted to put some time into it, a Home Assistant dashboard fed to a touch-screen Paper-ink display would be really neat. You can connect to Google Calendars to get events and tasks, leave the display on all the time and drop controls onto it for central heating, lights, media, weather etc as well as being able to do more bespoke stuff, only limited by your imagination and how much effort you want to put in. You can do Home Assistant with a colour screen and a presence detector to turn the screen on and off, it's just more work.
The think with Home Assistant is that you can just run it as an Android App too, so if you can make Android work, even if it's clunky, you can setup Home Assistant later and then switch over to that later on. Or if you find a big enough screen and want to also be able to watch video or whatever else, Android is going to be the most flexible platform. It's on my list of things to build, but I've not managed to track down a suitable and cost-effective touch-screen yet.
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