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[448.78 --> 451.70] Brent is a precious resource that we have to share out carefully. |
[451.94 --> 452.84] We do, yeah. |
[453.36 --> 455.74] Yeah, well, he'll have his fill of us, I think, by the time. |
[457.22 --> 458.20] I mean, you know. |
[458.56 --> 459.68] It's actually going to be pretty great. |
[459.76 --> 460.50] The kids are excited. |
[461.66 --> 466.72] This is going to totally, this is going to, like, enshrine him as Uncle Brent at the end of this road trip, you know. |
[466.88 --> 467.88] So that'll be pretty great. |
[468.38 --> 469.48] And I'm really looking forward to it. |
[469.68 --> 471.28] Well, I'm extremely jealous of that. |
[471.42 --> 473.96] And I hope you have a great time on the road. |
[473.96 --> 476.04] I've always wanted to do Salt Lake City. |
[476.24 --> 478.40] I never quite made it that far north in Utah. |
[478.62 --> 484.50] We did Arches and Dead Horse State Park and that kind of stuff near Moab a couple of years ago. |
[484.74 --> 485.80] That was amazing. |
[486.06 --> 488.44] If you're ever in that area, amazing, amazing stuff. |
[488.90 --> 489.70] Absolutely love it. |
[489.86 --> 490.12] Totally. |
[490.24 --> 490.84] You're absolutely right. |
[490.88 --> 491.98] It's like another world. |
[492.06 --> 494.28] It feels like you're on a set of Star Trek when you're in Moab. |
[494.48 --> 494.78] Mars. |
[494.86 --> 499.20] You know, Salt Lake City was a promise I made to the audience because it's not, like, exactly on our way to Denver. |
[499.20 --> 504.50] But I made a promise to the audience that when we could, we'd return to Salt Lake City because we had to skip it. |
[504.72 --> 505.58] We had a whole thing planned. |
[505.68 --> 506.26] We had to skip it. |
[506.30 --> 509.74] So this is making good on a promise to the audience in Salt Lake City. |
[510.34 --> 518.62] Perhaps this is an entirely gross misrepresentation of Salt Lake City, but it's kind of colored to me by the Book of Mormon, if you've seen that. |
[518.62 --> 523.70] I mean, you know, it gets a lot. |
[524.28 --> 533.38] Actually, just sort of tangentially related to that, when we were trying to book a venue, we had to listen to a whole bunch of rules about alcohol that we have never had to sit through from any other state. |
[535.08 --> 535.80] It's a thing. |
[536.04 --> 536.60] It's a thing. |
[536.60 --> 547.02] Well, when you've had one too many beers after a meetup, the last thing you want is to be fumbling around for a phone in your pocket or trying to remember what voice command you programmed into the lady cylinder this week. |
[547.10 --> 549.28] Have you got a solution to that? |
[549.64 --> 553.42] I had a fire tablet that worked pretty well before I got water destroyed because it fell out. |
[553.50 --> 554.34] It was off the wall. |
[554.46 --> 555.80] It fell into the water bath. |
[556.34 --> 562.36] But also, you know, Brent's going to be on board and he doesn't know all those special commands and he's going to want to control things. |
[562.36 --> 573.54] So I wanted to get that tablet on the wall replaced, which runs my home assistant dashboard 24-7 because it makes it easier for the family and it makes it easier for guests. |
[574.08 --> 578.04] And, yeah, it makes it easier when you just can't remember what, you know, what did I call that group of lights again? |
[578.10 --> 578.72] I can't remember. |
[579.72 --> 588.28] So at a bit of, I'd say, maybe laziness and at a bit of budget concerns, I've been picking up the Amazon Fire tablets. |
[588.28 --> 594.54] And I don't really want to invest in a system where I need to reflash these things. |
[594.70 --> 595.78] It's not that I'm against it. |
[595.80 --> 597.08] I used to love doing that. |
[597.50 --> 602.26] It's just kind of, it crosses an effort line for me that I'm willing to put into this kind of device. |
[602.78 --> 604.96] Beyond that, I'd rather just get like a used iPad. |
[605.52 --> 610.06] Well, we talked a little bit about flashing lineage on my old Kindle Fire a little while ago. |
[610.38 --> 610.66] Right. |
[610.74 --> 613.96] And for me, it's just, it's just not quite worth the effort. |
[614.50 --> 615.98] The tablets kind of suck already. |
[615.98 --> 621.84] And so if I have to do all this extra work, it just, it kind of like loses the value for me a little bit. |
[622.04 --> 627.44] I wanted to see if I could find a nice sweet spot where I could still pick up a Fire tablet for a great price off of Amazon. |
[628.24 --> 635.50] And then just easily and quickly modify it for my needs, which is mount it to a wall and run Home Assistant dashboard all day. |
[636.00 --> 641.38] And so a couple of projects that I found made it exactly what I was shooting for that kind of like that sweet spot in the middle. |
[641.78 --> 644.14] And I picked up a 10 inch Amazon Fire tablet. |
[644.14 --> 648.24] I opted to go for the ad free one because again, I'm not going to reflash this thing. |
[648.56 --> 657.84] But if you were going to reflash the thing, you could, you could save a few bucks and you could get the version that comes with ads on the lock screen, which is so obnoxious. |
[658.18 --> 663.12] In fact, I've bought the no ads version in the past and still received the version that comes with the ad. |
[663.12 --> 666.14] So I could totally understand if you wanted to reflash it. |
[666.20 --> 667.78] But I, that wasn't what I wanted to do. |
[668.10 --> 670.66] I wanted to use this app that I found called Wall Panel. |
[670.90 --> 674.82] It's an Android application for web-based dashboards like Home Assistant. |
[674.98 --> 676.24] Like that's what's in a lot of their screenshots. |
[676.98 --> 678.64] And you could sideload it if you want. |
[678.64 --> 687.58] But they've also submitted Wall Panel to the Google Play Store and to the Amazon App Store, which means it makes it stupid easy to get it up and going on a Fire tablet. |
[687.86 --> 690.94] It has really great fast camera motion detection too. |
[691.08 --> 693.82] So now what I can do is sleep my screen. |
[694.24 --> 698.34] And then when the front facing camera detects motion, it wakes the screen up. |
[698.46 --> 701.10] And that's actually surprisingly handy. |
[701.38 --> 704.82] You approach the tablet and as you're approaching it, the screen just becomes available. |
[705.08 --> 707.18] And then I have it set to like a three minute sleep window. |
[707.18 --> 713.22] You can have a pin code option in there to kind of lock the screen out if you don't want to just give anyone access to your dashboard. |
[713.94 --> 727.44] And with the ease of access and installing this thing and the power options for keeping the screen awake and all that kind of stuff, it gets me 90% of the way there with a stock Amazon Fire tablet. |
[727.76 --> 728.58] So it's Wall Panel. |
[728.72 --> 730.14] I'll have a link in the show notes for that. |
[730.84 --> 733.18] So what if I did want to reflash it or tinker with it? |
[733.38 --> 734.18] What can I do there? |
[734.62 --> 735.94] There are a couple of options there. |
[735.94 --> 739.82] The one that I think I'd recommend like the next step up from Wall Panel. |
[740.38 --> 742.26] You may have seen this over at the XDA forums. |
[742.36 --> 744.06] It's called the Amazon Fire Toolbox. |
[744.54 --> 762.08] And this uses the Android debug bridge to apply tweaks to the Fire tablet from completely reflashing them to just doing things like maybe installing Google Play or removing some of Amazon's annoying software that's on there to just completely replacing the version of Android. |
[762.08 --> 766.52] If you like the downside is you got to use Windows. |
[766.52 --> 769.42] And I just don't really have access to a Windows machine. |
[769.50 --> 770.66] It's a Visual Basic app. |
[771.06 --> 772.84] They say they're going to work on Linux support. |
[772.84 --> 777.64] But Datastream33 who kind of hangs out over the XDA forums. |
[777.72 --> 778.98] He's a senior member over there. |
[779.38 --> 781.12] It's his project or their project. |
[781.54 --> 783.18] And they're a Windows user right now. |
[783.24 --> 784.14] So they're making it for Windows. |
[784.14 --> 788.00] So it's not really something that I have quick access to. |
[788.12 --> 792.42] But the idea is you plug your Fire tablet into your Windows box. |
[792.50 --> 793.72] You load this toolbox up. |
[793.72 --> 806.08] And then that gives you a GUI with a bunch of options in there that just kind of can go in there and lobotomize the Amazon stuff out of the tablet if you want and give it actual genuine Google Play Store APIs. |
[806.88 --> 808.84] Who doesn't want to lobotomize a tablet, huh? |
[809.34 --> 812.92] Well, I mean, have you seen the nag where they put on these things? |
[812.92 --> 826.60] They want you to buy everything that Amazon makes and they want to turn it into an Alexa and they also want you to turn it into an Audible station and they also want you to turn it into a Prime streaming machine and they put all this stuff all over it. |
[826.68 --> 828.40] And I just wanted to run one single app. |
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