Question

What tablets are people using for a wall mounted control panels?  

Answer 1

Amazon Fire or iPads seem to be the most popular. I'm using a fire 8.  

Comments

@creon is the size on the 8 big enough for the tiles?  

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For what I'm using it for, yes. It's mainly being used as a security panel in the hallway with weather info.  

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@fargone 8 works great for me.  

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8 is the sweet spot. 7 is too small. 10 costs too much for it to be hanging on a wall.  

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@creon I use 8’s, which I find a little small, but cost for a Fire 10 is too high. Going to try some generic android tablets that are 10”

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This is the 8. I'm running sharptools, not actiontiles, but this should give you a general idea. Next to my ct100 thermostat.  

Answer 2

I had fire tablets but moved to ipads.  

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@vendible any particular reason?  

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@fargone speed.  

Answer 3

2x 8" fire tablets here.  

Answer 4

Fire and hate it. They are sooo slow. Unusable for alarm. Decent for just hitting buttons. I'd def get something else next time. I have a dinosaur of a free tablet from Verizon and it performs way better than the fire.  

Answer 5

Fire tablet is the best and cheapest choice out there. 7" is too small honestly, I would go with 8" which is the sweet spot. For people who have money get the 10" version. They have the benefit of having Alexa built in (newer ones do) so you can use it as a smart speaker.  

Answer 6

Amazon Fire 10

Answer 7

I have one Fire 7 and an old Nexus 7 wall-mounted and an old iPad mini for roaming around the house.  

Comments

And which of the 3 do you prefer and why? I have a 1st gen Nexus7. Are the other 2 better performing?  

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The old Nexus is a bit slow now. But I prefer Android because I use the Daydream feature so I don't have to get Fully for the screensaver function. The Fire was chosen purely on cost. The iPad was just lying around, although I do prefer iOS over the others. In my case out was more a matter of up cycling than anything else. I also prefer a smaller footprint, and if I have a lot of tiles I can either scroll or use multiple pages. I just keep the most used stuff up front.  

Answer 8

Amazon Fire 10

Answer 9

Fire 8 HD with a makes by mike mount.  

Answer 10

The new gen fire HD 10 is much better than my older fire 7, the fire 7 is in my master bath, fire 10 in the main living and a dell 8" that's in master bedroom. We will be replacing the Dell with a new fire 10 soon

Answer 11

Fire 10HD running perfect for a year. Mind you that we only use it for ST integration and nothing else.  

Answer 12

I found a really good deal on refurbished dragon touch k10 tablets on ebay. $45 and running tinycam and a kisok program for action tiles. Running very well for the price. The display isn't terribly nice though. You get what you pay for but it's been perfect for my needs.  

Comments

@dimmer are those live views of tiny cam server on a media tile?  

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@deni87 yes live views through media tiles. They refresh every 2 seconds roughly. I have an older iPad viewing the same Dashboard upstairs and it has the same refresh rate.  

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@dimmer very nice indeed. Do you run tiny cam server on the dragon touch? Does tiny can server use a load of bandwidth or is that why you have it set to 2second refresh?  

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@deni87 I run the tinycam pro server on the dragon touch. It's keeping up with 5 wyze cams right now. I haven't measured the bandwidth but it hasn't bee a problem yet. I've had more issues with internet speed from my is lately. I do have the cameras and) ess important devices on my 2. 4ghz network though.  

Answer 13

IPad mini

Answer 14

I have the 7” and it’s too small.  

Answer 15

Tab S2 9. 7" Its a great all rounder, fast with expandable memory, 3gb ram and a 8 core CPU, and low cost second hand :) I have 3 in use around the house, they open Ring live view automatically within 4 seconds, they can handle many apps open at the same time.  

Answer 16

Using a Fire HD10 and its good, but still a bit slow

Answer 17

Old tab 3. Just a beater tablet. Running Action Tiles on kiosk browser. When it dies, I hope I can find my old Hauwai.  

Answer 18

Fire 8’s like a lot of other commenters.  

Answer 19

I am using a Fire tablet 8 and an old iPad.  

Answer 20

How are y'all powering it ? Can someone show some pictures?  

Answer 21

I have two almost new 8th gen fire tablet for sale with custom wall mount if anyone interested. Located in europe.  

Answer 22

Using an old Asus Transformer Windows tablet. Super slow but runs Actiontiles well on the Edge Browser.  

Answer 23

Texas POE extractor. for power from a POE switch.  

Answer 24

None. It’s 2020. I just as Alexa.  

Comments

@distinct Alexa was 2018 2020 is now button operated scenes get with the times

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Not helpful, but thanks for playing.  

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@stator although I do use a few fire tablets and use the alexa app.  

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@stator oh and a few echo buttons.  

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@distinct Alexa doesn’t speak scottish I’m afraid but I do have one in every room