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[1003.94 → 1004.88] The screen is bad. |
[1005.00 → 1006.64] It was bad back then. |
[1006.72 → 1008.02] So it's terrible now. |
[1008.56 → 1010.02] It's just not a great device. |
[1010.36 → 1011.00] Let's be honest. |
[1011.06 → 1013.60] But it was £35 six years ago. |
[1013.60 → 1020.52] And I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool if I had a wall-mounted tablet dashboard? |
[1020.88 → 1021.34] Good for you. |
[1021.60 → 1027.70] In my workshop, I've been doing some automation around the woodworking blast gates that I have. |
[1027.74 → 1030.40] We'll talk about that more in an upcoming episode. |
[1031.18 → 1037.14] And then basically, I just wanted a touchscreen panel that I could just jab my fat fingers on and just open a certain blast gate. |
[1037.14 → 1042.08] I didn't want to spend any money because it's already, woodworking's already expensive enough. |
[1042.28 → 1045.72] Did you think about going with a voice tube out there before this, or do you already have one? |
[1045.96 → 1047.50] Well, I have a voice tube out there. |
[1047.78 → 1048.98] It's the lady cylinder. |
[1049.68 → 1055.64] And I, I don't know, I've kind of really gone off shouting orders across the room at these things. |
[1056.66 → 1063.26] I, in the rental house last, or before we bought this one, everything was on the Google voice system. |
[1063.26 → 1068.86] But I didn't set any of that up once we moved, and I haven't since, and I, I just don't miss it. |
[1069.24 → 1074.66] I mixed on it myself because there's sometimes you have to restate yourself, and you always feel like a fool when it, when it gets it wrong. |
[1074.88 → 1079.40] There's always that thing where you're making eye contact with the cylinder, waiting for it to light up. |
[1079.44 → 1080.06] And I'm like, oh. |
[1080.52 → 1080.66] Yeah. |
[1080.68 → 1086.14] And then in my situation, you add every time we're off grid, of course, the voice transcription doesn't work. |
[1086.22 → 1088.94] So that's really where I was like, okay, we got to have tablets. |
[1089.14 → 1092.60] And also it's nice to glance at it and just see what's on and what's off. |
[1092.60 → 1094.52] So how did you go about accomplishing this? |
[1094.82 → 1099.08] Well, I put Lineage OS, which is an open source version of Android. |
[1099.40 → 1104.08] I think it's what came out of the Cyanogen mod project a few years ago. |
[1104.36 → 1104.54] Yeah. |
[1104.66 → 1107.54] I put Lineage OS 12 on this tablet. |
[1108.06 → 1116.70] And performance is better than the Amazon OS that was on there before, but it's still a six-year-old device. |
[1116.84 → 1117.46] You know what I mean? |
[1118.20 → 1120.22] Well, any performance improvement would be good. |
[1120.26 → 1121.74] This has crossed my mind before. |
[1121.94 → 1123.06] I have thought about doing this. |
[1123.10 → 1125.26] I just wasn't sure if it was really worth the bother. |
[1125.66 → 1127.52] It was a bit of a pain, right? |
[1127.52 → 1141.52] I had to unlock the bootloader, which involved, I had to take the back off the tablet, bridge a couple of pins on the motherboard to ground the bootloader out so that it would boot into the bootloader mode for Android. |
[1141.62 → 1145.52] I don't know if you've ever done anything with ADB and fast boot. |
[1145.86 → 1146.66] A while ago, but yeah. |
[1146.66 → 1152.06] I had to use those tools to put a custom recovery partition on there. |
[1152.08 → 1161.36] So I used Team Win Recovery Project, TWRP, and sideloaded on there a bunch of different APKs and the Lineage OS ROM. |
[1162.02 → 1168.42] This process probably took me an evening of mostly fuzzing about and getting into that bootloader mode was the hardest part. |
[1168.66 → 1170.78] Are you using Windows to do any of this? |
[1170.78 → 1175.62] I mean, I have all three in this room, so I, you know, between the different devices. |
[1175.96 → 1177.48] Does it require Windows is what I'm asking? |
[1177.64 → 1178.84] Do you need Windows? |
[1178.98 → 1179.44] Because I'm out. |
[1180.02 → 1182.08] That's a disqualified for me right there. |
[1182.22 → 1184.80] I think this one works best under Linux. |
[1184.94 → 1187.60] I actually just used a Raspberry Pi in the end. |
[1187.70 → 1188.16] Oh, okay. |
[1188.52 → 1189.32] I have those. |
[1189.60 → 1190.34] I know you do. |
[1191.28 → 1194.88] I ended up just using a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu on. |
[1195.44 → 1196.00] All right. |
[1196.02 → 1197.10] Now you're talking about language. |
[1197.42 → 1198.98] So it took you a little bit of an evening, |
[1198.98 → 1203.30] but it sounds like if I followed some tips from you, maybe it wouldn't take me that long. |
[1204.02 → 1208.22] Well, this is for the specific revision of the 2015 7-inch Fire tablet. |
[1208.54 → 1211.48] So I don't know if the newer ones have a more locked down bootloader. |
[1211.70 → 1215.10] That's the key is once you can get a custom recovery software on there, |
[1215.60 → 1217.56] you can install whatever image you like. |
[1217.56 → 1224.32] My first question, once you get the OS on there, is do you do Gaps and do you need Gaps for this tablet? |
[1224.62 → 1227.22] No, you definitely don't anymore because of Droid. |
[1227.22 → 1232.60] So my use case was to use this thing exclusively for Home Assistant. |
[1232.96 → 1233.06] Right. |
[1233.24 → 1238.44] And so Lineages, out of the box, ships with no Google software whatsoever, |
[1238.80 → 1241.60] which is awesome on such an underpowered device. |
[1242.30 → 1243.86] And then so I just loaded Droid. |
[1243.96 → 1249.80] I went to the Droid website, enabled unsigned or unknown sources for APK installation, |
[1250.50 → 1254.68] installed the Droid APK, and now I have a Google-less app store. |
[1254.68 → 1257.16] And Home Assistant is available in that app store. |
[1257.32 → 1258.84] So happy days. |
[1259.22 → 1260.26] And how are you doing the screen? |
[1260.38 → 1261.24] Are you letting it sleep? |
[1261.32 → 1262.52] Are you leaving it on all the time? |
[1262.78 → 1268.62] Because it's going to be used very infrequently, I have just used the standard lock and unlock. |
[1268.92 → 1271.28] And it's going to take me a couple of taps to unlock the screen, |
[1271.40 → 1274.80] but I use it a couple of times a day, if that. |
[1275.30 → 1276.58] Yeah, that makes sense. |
[1277.04 → 1280.74] Now, the other question I have is, are you using the web dashboard, |
[1280.74 → 1284.44] or did you load the Home Assistant app and interface with it that way? |
[1284.74 → 1288.00] Yeah, I loaded the app through Droid and the performance. |
[1288.32 → 1292.02] So I have a lot of experience with how long it takes to load that app on my phone. |
[1292.26 → 1294.76] And it can take a beat sometimes. |
[1294.90 → 1302.80] Performance of Lovelace and the interface of Home Assistant could be better, shall we say, |
[1302.90 → 1303.94] even on modern hardware. |
[1303.94 → 1308.94] So you can imagine on this six-year-old device, it takes a good 10 seconds to load. |
[1309.22 → 1310.48] Once it's loaded, it's fine. |
[1310.54 → 1311.92] And it works just fine. |
[1311.96 → 1314.72] But it's that initial load that can take a while. |
[1315.14 → 1317.58] If you have a guide or anything like that, is there something we could share in the show notes? |
[1317.86 → 1318.84] Yep, it's already in there. |
[1319.04 → 1319.36] Aha! |
[1320.08 → 1322.12] That'll be at self-hosted. Show slash 44. |
[1322.62 → 1325.10] We talked about HealthChecks.io last episode. |
[1325.22 → 1329.02] And in there, I asked you about monitoring if APIs or services are up. |
[1329.04 → 1330.16] And you mentioned Prometheus. |
[1330.16 → 1336.04] Prometheus, well, I want you to tell me more about it because we got a few people that bit via email. |
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