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[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

If they charge as much as a penny annually, it's binned.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

It's like they shockingly didn't think people would ever realize they didn't need it.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Yeah I can live with having to turn on my bedroom lights manually. Certainly not paying 5 a month for that

[-] aniki 4 points 4 months ago

You don't need an Alexa for that, anyway. I have LCARs touch panels around my house plus the HA app on my phone with custom interfaces for all of them.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

Home Assistant?

[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do you have a good source in English? I’m looking for some nice panel solutions but what I found so far is a guy that did a complete EIB install with touch screen and is in German. I’d really like better touchscreen HUD access to my home assistant and haven’t made much progress from the information I’ve found myself.

[-] aniki 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The LCARs install docs are english.

https://github.com/th3jesta/ha-lcars

There's nothing special you need for a touch panel.

And setting up Kiosk mode in chromium is dirt simple.

[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh ok, thank you. I thought it was specific hardware which I think got my search focused around Star Trek display replicas.

I do see this is the same thing I read about and watched a video of but it is in English, I’m not sure why I had trouble finding something in English, anyway, I can’t wait to try getting this implemented. I really appreciate you sharing.

[-] aniki 2 points 4 months ago

Right on! There's quite a bit of theme dependencies you'll need to setup first but once you get past the configuration, doing the actual layout is super easy, just time consuming.

Once I had my display panels setup, I made a kiosk user that defaults to the screen I want and then used a unit file on the raspberry pi, configured to log in on boot to the display user and chromeium is started on boot directly into kiosk mode in full screen.

[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

I really appreciate you taking the time to provide the additional details. These kinds of bread crumbs help me a great deal in knowing where to look to continue learning from others and really helps to feed my enjoyment and continued education.

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