Just getting into home automation with home assistant, and this has given me a lot of hope and excitement around the possibilities. Thanks for the quality content!

Thanks. Great info as always and step by step guide really helps

excellent tutorial - thank you very much ive implemented the doorbell and wake on motion

Awesome and very usefull info! I am currently using a couple of Fire Tablets with Sharptools and will be looking into going this route if it can do everything I am currently doing in Sharptools - since I am already licensed with Fully Kiosk on both of my tablets, this would actually save me money for not having to pay for Sharptools licensing yearly. Thanks for all the work you put into these videos!

Thanks!! Really awsome info. I already had 2 tablets setup with Fully Kiosk Browser and is working great. However I did not know there was also a HA integration. I learned from your video I can basically use this to assign a button to open a different webpage. I now made a button to open google shopping list and a button to open my recipebook in the tablet in the kitchen. Game changer! :) 2 extra tips here: 1) You when you enable webinterface in settings, you can go from your pc to the settings and much easier change them and also backup/restore them 2) There are settings build in, so you can use the camera as motion detector to turn on screen for x seconds. Works great! I put some semi-transparant tape over the camera, so it will only see blur for extra security.

OMG! I have been looking for the whole ID->Choose thing for ever. Never knew how to do it! Thank you Lewis! Oh and of course: Awesome video, as always!

Pro tip: set your low battery percentage to 75% and it will be a lot better for the battery. The nominal voltage is where lithium batteries are the most happy and have the least amount of wear. Cycling a lithium battery below and above the nominal voltage is harder on the battery vs keeping it at nominal voltage.

I'm getting to wall tablet for about half year already, thanks for vid.

Thank you for the detailed instructions!

We still need the Mushroom/Minimalist wall tablet Dashboard video! PLEASSSEE

very informative and useful,love your video,tks

Kudos for the battery minder, good idea

Thank you for this!

Always entertaining and useful to watch your videos. I have had a tablet in the kitchen working as a dashboard/music thingy for over a year, and I still managed to learn a few things. Namely the 'panel view' and the 'numeric state choose', which I had never used before. Also, I had the tablet plugged in to power for more than 6 months, and so far so good.

Great video, helped me understand how fully kiosk works. I think I'm just going to stick with my current set up, for the simplicity same of my partner. Currently I havey galaxy tab A8 on a tablet stand (don't want to mount stuff on the walls) and by changing a setting to have the lock button pressed 2 times, it opens HA and takes us to my alarmo panel with toggles for lights and to open the garage door

I saw another channel using a pixel tablet to create some nice dashboards recently. Fully Kiosk Browser has been around for years and looks fantastic. I am not totally sold on wall panels myself. I prefer a dashboard to be near to where I am most likely to use it, which honestly is the coffee table near where I sit in the lounge, or the kitchen bench. I admit, wall panels use to be my aim, but I found, from personal experience, that in my use case, walking to a wall panel was, in the end, no different to walking to an old fashioned switch or thermostat.

great video and use case ... particular like the idea of cutting/returning power to keep the device within band. I've had a lot of Android devices bloat on me over the past two years and looking forward to treating them better. :)

Great video, thanks!

Hi, this is what i was looking for. Thx for that.

This was really useful, will definitely do this.

Very usefull for me, as beginer. Thank you

Ah, here is the follow up video. Thank you❤

thx a thousand times. it works.

cheers for an updated video, seems to make more sense to me second time round

Great video. Thank you!!!

amazing Video Thank you for that

Very informative video! I would have a very basic and silly question, to which I can't seem to find a clear answer from the depths of the interweb: Can the tablet run the HA backend part aswell, or would you still need to have the HA run on a separate server (raspberry pi for instance)? Many thanks!

Awesome video! How did you hide the HA title bar on the dashboard?

Very cool video Lewis, thanks! I do still need to see a in-depth wall panel dashboard tutorial 😁

Great info Lewis. Just for your info there is a setting in Fully kiosk to start the screen on motion. Also you can set a screensaver 👍🏻

thankyou so much, i have some spare mobile phones laying, now i can repurpose them as cool looking dashboards.

What was I'm my mind when planning the same is PoE wire with Type-C adapter. Better connectivity, sleeker power delivery (no occupying the wall socket, no loose wiring)

Great content👍👍👍

I guess I never knew you could make two triggers and then specify which action the trigger does. I always made 2 separate automations

Great tips!!!

This has been so helpful to me. Thank you SO much Lewis. I only have one issue that I cannot seem to get past. I am using a 7th Gen Fire HD 8 for my wall panel. Everything works as expected except for one thing. The screen on/off from the dashboard in home assistant. Before I started to play with the motion triggering, I just toggled the screen off with the switch in the dashboard. When I toggled the switch back on, the Fire HD screen turned back on, but on the Lock Screen. I still have to swipe up from the bottom to get it to go back to the Fully Kiosk browser. I feel as though I missed a step, but not sure. Also, the "Unlock Screen" option in Device Management is greyed out. Any tips or suggestions anyone can share about this?

awesome video thanks im gonna get started tonight

hi ! what card are you using at the top for your view navigation ? Is it a glance card?

thank you so much

Great music choice, TTB!

Just what I needed in one video as you always do .. thank you very much.. by the way I am from Oman you probably didnt heard about and watch your video all the time and I learn a lot about HA from you

Video, door bell, weather for today/tomorrow would be likely 90% of needed. Would use calendar but it is no go for family I guess where everyone has its own. Lights better be switched with regular switches or smart ones too I think,

Hi, Great content. Very clear, very useful. Cheers ! ab.

You have the option under Fully Kiosk it will run the screen in identification using the tablet camera

One thing to add, you should give your tablet a static IP because if the IP changes, the full kiosk integration with HA will break. Correct?

Very useful thanks. I have a question though, is it possible to get the tablet to utter a sound depending on a sensor

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Thanks for the great video, I have just one problem with my implementation: I can turn on/off the motion detection in HASS for the Fully Kiosk Browser but I've got no motion entity to use in automations. The integrated motion detection from the Kiosk runs fine and turns off/on the screen but I'd really like to have the integration into HASS for that. Anything I missed setting it up?

Awesome. Thank you.

great automation idea on the screen on motion, one question if I have a camera playing 24/7 on my dashboard design will this be using cpu of the server all the time? and will be making unnecesary wear on the ssd that runs my home assistant server?

Cheap Lenovo tables have the battery conservation option built-in. They limit charging to 60% and turn the charger back on if the battery drops below 40%. IMHO that's the most optimal range for this type of usage and that's what I'm using it for also.

thank you so mutch for your vedios i larn mor thinks from how can i find your tab wall bracket i need it

For the video feed I made the tablet view a 1 panel view, added a vertical stack with a grid/horizontal stack for all the things I want to show and added a conditional view above it to trigger when movement is detected, this works better for slower devices where loading a new view takes a little bit too long for my liking.

Just saying, but you have the nice "Threshold" helper for those above/below automations. That gives you a nice binary_sensor to trigger on...

Thanks for the video! What tablet would you or anyone else recommend without having a massive laggy experience? I'm looking at the Tab A7 Lite, which costs around 70€ used. Is there anything cheaper? Is the A7 Lite enough?

What NVR you use to integrate your security cameras to the homepage?

Great video. You have tough me a bunch. I implemented the wall panel as per your video and installed Fully. I’m still using the trail version. I can’t get the screen to turn off with no motion. Service switch:turn of works. Any idea what the problem may be?

Fantastic video

Hi, Can you please send me the Link of the Tablet wall Support? Thanks Nice Video

Hi another great video but could you please share the STL files for the wall mount bracket?

Great video and great alternative for a wallpanel. I need som help with updating the information shown. I am putting up on the wallpanel a lovelace view that contains a clock and two temperature sensors. The clock is a HACS digital clock and the sensors are presented on two mushroom entity cards. Displaying this view on my computer screen the clock and the mushroom cards update along with the sensors they are representing. However on the wallpanel only the clock updates, not the mushroom entity cards. I can naturally force an update but have not been able to find a setting to allow these cards to update normally?

Great project. I'm very curious how you created the dashboard that is showing on the tablet. Do you have an article and/or video on how you created this? I'm especially interested in how you created the left part with the (I think) markdown card with the menu options

You had recommended the amcrest doorbell in a previous video...is the reolink better?!

can you have more than one tablet in the Ha kiosk setup?

Useful video as always. Really great content 👍 But, for anyone thinking about doing smart home pannel, please ditch the 3D printed frames. I also 3D print stuff that I need, because you can create things that are impossible to buy. But the looks of it isn't always great. If you're building walll panel, I recommend you get any picture frame. The design looks so much better that whatever you print. For example Ikea sell tons of them, and they laso include the carboard insert, which you can cut to exactly fit display of your tablet. And you'll get the Echo Show 15 look and feel without any Amazon limitations...

Is there a 3D printer template for the bracket?

Where does the motion detection sensor come from? From the companion app or the fully kiosk integration? I do not find the motion detection sensor in both of them with my fire tablet...

Thanks for the video. Can you share your learnings and recommendations for the tablet wall installation? Any special mount or case?

Thank you for sharing this and all of your videos. How do you recharge your tablet when it's on its wall mount? Thanks in advance,

Would there be a way to disable input from the tablet or require a pin to use if the alarm is enabled?

Hey Lewis, how did you get the full screen with no access tab to the left or dashboard editor 3 dots on the top right?

@10:30 What button press are you using to load the start url after the 1 minute delay?

I wish you could create a video on how to use Home Assistant on a Google Nest Hub 2

Thanks for nice tutorial. I get to a point when i suppose to type in login and password. It didnt accept it, than after trying couple of times ha screen dissapeard with some errors. Now i cannot connect kiosk to ha at all...

@everythingsmarthome Any luck using two-way-audio between tablets and Reolink doorbells thru HA?

A big part of the video sounds like it could be packed into a huge automation template. Would be much simpler and a sure hit !

Any article or video on a bracket for mounting a tablet? I have an old mini tablet that would hopefully work. Tnx for the video!

Cool summary! Having tried a few of these things before, i didnt like using the navigation feature of fully to navigate to a different dashboard to show the camera feed when the doorbell rings. It just took to long to be useful, at least on a tablet thats near me and always visible. Also, you lose the context, so navigating back to where you were before is cumbersome. Instead, i use "browser mod", which has a service you can call to show the "more info" dialog for a specific entity on any registered browser. This goes a lot faster, even on my old fire hd tablet. My full automation is a bit more complex. I use browser mod and fully kiosk browser. I have a home assistant script called "door peek", which disables the tablet screensaver, sets the screen brightness to max, disables the screen timeout (through fully). Then using browser mod i show a popup window with my camera feed (browser mod). Then i wait 30 seconds, close the popup, and revert screen brightness and display timeout. After a 5 seconds the tablet goes back to screensaver mode, aka display almost off. I call this script when the doorbell rings, when the letterbox is opened, and when frigate detects a person near the door. Extremely handy.

So what benefit would it be to use the "newer" Galaxy tablet as recommended in your links (A8 vs A7) ? Assuming this became a dedicated home smart panel. . . Would any other (cheaper) tablet do ?

hi what trigger do I pick to do motion thanks

recommended devices? Would this work with a Fire TV (would it need google store adding)?

I think using the doorbell motion sensor to trigger the full screen camera view might be a better option. That way it can load up before the door bell is even triggered?

Really cool. Thanks for the video. Thing that makes me hesitant; Google 2-step authentication and security on your modem creates a pretty decent wall from someone accessing your system, however introducing something like this I’m hesitant cause it creates a entry point. Apple App Store is pretty secure, but android apps aren’t. Who owns the app, and do they have a back door to access your stuff, or a back door that can be exploited.

Can i use like cheap tablets for this. For educational and training only. Like around $20 to $30 price?

Thanks for the great and really useful video. Do you know if this works for amazon fire tablets?

where did you get the motion sensor from? fully kiosk has a motion detection switch, but cant find the related sensor entity

Can this be used in the USA you speak of purchasing in euro or pounds? And can I use an old fire tablet? Thanks

So do you use a seperate/developer google account for devices like this rather than risking random guests having access, or does the full kiosk lock the device android os somehow?

I assume since you can set the screen to come on with motion than any trigger will work, is that correct? For example if I wanted to have it come on when an alert is triggered?

Is there a limit as to how many tablets can be placed in the home with this integration?

I cant see the fully kiosk in action - how do I make the fully kiosk avialble in the action drop down? thanks

Can the tablet be used to voice control Home Assistant? That would be handy.

With Prime Day coming up, this video is really well timed! I expect we'll see some great deals on some Fire tablets.

Wonder if you could grab a picture or a few seconds video clip from the tablet on motion.

I also have a reolink doorbell and @9:53 you select doorbell button pressed, I don't have this entity, mine says: 'Doorbell PoE visitor' how come thats different from yours? also, you recommend setting a automation for charging and discharging a battery. but are devices nowadays not protected against overcharging and thus 'bloating'? I set my TabA8 to battery protection (not charge above 85%) and keep it 'charging' all the time. You say this is bad? can you elaborate. My guess is the constant charging/discharging is going to degragde the battery even more than keeping it charged and plugged in.

That Galaxy tablet for sure already has battery preservation mode natively. It will trickle-charge the battery at 85%, keeping it constant, with the least amount of wear. Once a phone/tablet reaches its maximal charging point, it simply stops delivering power to it and utilizes usb-power instead. You can even verify that with battery health apps which can directly access the current readings going to the battery. The problem of batteries mushrooming from being constantly plugged in does no longer exist. Just let the device handle the charging, they are optimized as is

What are the best tablets that people are using for wall tablets?

cool !

@EverythingSmartHome I feel like I might have missed some steps... I installed the Fully Kiosk Browser and configured like you said in the video but the screen doesn't turn off. Do you have any tips to get this to work for my wallpanel? I read that more people share this issue unfortunately...

So, what if you're planning to make some sort of always on display by just leaving on the screen, can you use the free version?