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I'm not sure I'd want to use one of these as my primary tablet, but these look like excellent candidates for DIY projects that need a touchscreen interface, esp
by curun1r 11y ago
I'm not sure I'd want to use one of these as my primary tablet, but these look like excellent candidates for DIY projects that need a touchscreen interface, especially with the discount for buying 6 at a time.
For instance, I'm thinking of adding an in-home video intercom system by mounting a bunch of these on various walls around the house. Just hoping that someone figures out rooting to make the software side of creating a single-purpose tablet a bit easier.
- dheera 11y agoHoping for CyanogenMod to be available for it ...
- agumonkey 11y agoI'm looking at it as a rpi + lcd + battery + case .. and it's not bad.
- zdkl 11y agoAs with the pi, I'm concerned by the usability of say a clojurescript/react app on their browser, can anyone comment on its performance? Having spent many many months looking for a combo of cheap boards + touch interfaces, I'm very excited. Now if you can root that thing without spending a couple of days staring down esoteric error messages or fighting with drivers post-root, I'm ordering the 6pack right away. Maybe even flash Arch Linux arm on it...
- joenathan 11y agoI bought three of them. I use two as monitors for my home camera system, I have 6 IP cams and use Blue Iris software as DVR and web streamer. I created a web app I loaded on the tablets and they show a rotating view of each camera for 4 seconds before switching to the next, and if there is motion on a camera it'll switch and stay on that camera until the motion stops. The tablets are set to never sleep, but I use an app to automatically dim the screen at night. I have one mounted to the wall in my room, and one mounted on the wall next to the font door. They are cheap enough that if they die after a year or three, I'll just order more up.
- shadeless 11y agoThat sounds pretty cool, what cameras do you use? Do you have the code for the web app available somewhere?
- joenathan 11y agoMy cameras are all x264 HD IP cameras, I have 2x 720p Tenvis IPROBOT3s, 1x 720p Foscam C1, 1x 1080p Foscam C2, and 1x ELP 720p Mini IP camera. The app I made is a webview wrapper based on this project https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/93-I-made-a-better-remote-live-view-page https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/93-I-made-a-better-...
- thro1237 11y agoIf only we have GPIO on these tablets!