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I've been using an Amazon tablet with Fully Kiosk for a few months but it frankly sucks ass. Keeps resetting itself or kicking back to the Amazon home screen to name a few issues.

If money isn't a factor, what tablet do you think would be the dream choice for integrating as a wall mountable Hass tablet?

Fully Kiosk is a great app but still very hacky, so I'd like a tablet that doesn't require workarounds to keep it in kiosk mode.

I hate telemetry and spyware as well so I guest that puts anything Amazon or Google based out of the equation.

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[-] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you just want to put it on the wall: No tablet at all. A proper Touchscreen with DDC/CI for control of the display by the host (e.g. regulate it's brightness). And then use a raspi or similar as the actual player with a digital signage solution.

Why? It gives you far better and far more consistent support for basically everything. Want to include hardware keys? Go for it. Want to include an NFC reader? Go for it. Want to pair it with a presence detector? Go for it. (I do all of the above).

The good thing is: You don't have to. There are "ready made" distributions for digital signage available for the pi (just install them on usb instead of SDcard). I read an article a while ago that around 30% of all digital signage solutions these days are SBC based. You plug in the display. You are set. That's all you need to do at first. Everything else is "when you find time for it".

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