Wall mounted kitchen tablet

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Last year I picked up a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7" with the intent to mount it by the kitchen door as you leave. Some features I was imagining:

• time
• weather
• calendar for the today and tomorrow
• stuff to take with you when you leave

The desired position isn't really close to an outlet

I also got a wall mount for it, but when I finally mounted it, it fell down overnight with the test weight 😭

Some ideas I have had for mounting:

• recessed power outlet
• wireless charger
• magnet for mounting

I don't think it makes sense to always be running. There may a way to use Tasker, with a a motion camera, to only turn when motion is detected, and turn off after awhile. Tasker is weird though 😅

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Possibly of use: Android IP Webcam component

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Alexa now supports (has supported?) arbitrary lists aside from shopping and todo. Maybe could use that for voice interface, and try to find an API for the todo list?

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Finally got it mounted! I used this mount and it seems to work really well. I ended up not trying to get wireless charger, because that was a bit of uncertainty and also found out my tablet didn't support it.

Some details for implementing:

• Smashing, ie maintained version of dashing
• TabletFrame for running it in
• Tasker for automating

Features I'm thinking:

• show items in the "Don't forget" list
• show some calendar items
• show weather
• control for home/away

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Other details:

• tabletframe setup, including tablet setup, and android studio setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBfwKYFbbb8
• openhab-dashboard has some android-setup notes:
  • removing title bar

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I was able to get TabletFrame built, and stuff running. I just have a default smashing dashboard running off my laptop for right now until I get something running on the nuc.

One annoyance I ran into is that turning on push notifications for Motion Detector started sending notifications when motion was detected, which played a sound. The video said that was important, so I left it on, but muted sounds.

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Oh, I did have a problem with installing my built TabletFrame. I had never done any android stuff, so I was flying pretty blind. I made sure both types of signing (jar and full apk) were checked, and that fixed it.

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I did some systems & design thinking exercise with tracy to figure out what should go on there. I'll have to upload

For the server part, I'm thinking a express server with webpack for bundling packages. Some resources:

• http://www.christianalfoni.com/articles/2015_04_19_The-ultimate-webpack-setup
• https://scotch.io/tutorials/getting-started-with-webpack-module-bundling-magic

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Some of the features we talked about would be useful having on your phone, in addition to just the

That got me to thinking about React Native 😅 https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/handling-text-input.html

It'd be useful to be able to open mobile apps for some of the workflows. Looks like this is possible with something like https://github.com/fiber-god/react-native-app-link

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I lost track of the notes, hopefully can find that notebook 😓