Waking Lock Screen Improvements

[quadportnick]

On some devices you cannot disable the interactive/passcoded lockscreen (Eg, FireOS). Request was made to support the screen wakeup feature in this scenario

[danielperna84]

While looking at https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition I had the idea, that the wall-panel could also be limited to only waking up when a face is detected. Android has face detection built in I think, so this shouldn't be too hard. Apparently this would be only useful in edge cases, but having it as a feature still would be fancy. :D This could also be tied to the webcam thing I've suggested earlier. Having a motion-detecting webcam that can be limited to faces to reduce false positives would be awesome.

[quadportnick]

Ill add the request about face detection separately. As the camera code evolves I think this is possible to look at.

[quadportnick]

Yeah, the image streaming code is turning out to be simpler than I expected (and delivering it via HTTP) so I'm thinking how to integrate it all better, with the expectation of other processing of images being part of the mix, with the caveat that if you turn everything on on a weaker tablet that's on you :) Looking at iOS code I also saw some projects where they're interpereting QR codes in front of the camera... why not...

[danielperna84]

The QR thing could indeed be pretty useful. My first idea: sending the QR-result to HASS, which then could be evaluated to trigger automations or set the presence to home etc.. So, like, every family member has it's own QR code to identify itself.

[snizzleorg]

I second the lock-screen improvement... I'm using a fire tablet and when the tablet wakes up it shows the stupid amazon lock screen. It would be much better if this could be disabled. Or the screen at least be dimmed much further, when nobody is in front of it

[michaelhenningersrb]

Is there already an improvement for the fire tablet lock screen issue? thx