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Which App for an Android Kitchen WallPanel?
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My idea is to use this https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.waveup/
You would need to place the hand nearby the proximity sensor
In order to wake when you enter the room you would need an external pir sensor and some hack. Or a sophisticated app that does computer vision all the time with the front camera, but I never saw an app like that
Alternatives that I evaluated as a concept:
a pine tablet with Linux and a pir sensor connected to the gpio ports - need to code a wake screen feature, then show a dashboard from ha in a kiosk browser
using some custom python script generate an image on your server with the status of your home, then jailbreak an old kindle to download and display that image ever few minutes. No need to turn on and off the screen anymore
A tablet that turns on every time you enter the room might be annoying night time
Just a heads up that the paid version of Fully Kiosk Browser has a wake-via-camera motion option built in, and with the HA integration you can also do wake via PIR or some other input, or use the motion detection of the camera as an input to HA for further automation.
Personally, I use a bit of abandoned android software (I forget the name at the moment) that lets me use a node based system to connect the proximity sensor with the screen wake based on whatever variables work, so that works for me, but my touch panel is running an older version of android so it might not work with everything.