This is freaking amazing. I was thinking about adding a screen but then thought I was being unreasonably stupid with my new ideas related to HA. So, I am not the only one filled with what might seem like stupid ideas when it comes to HA. It is literally 4:00 AM here in Berlin, and I just finished integrating my SONOFF smart modules.
Refreshing to see a video about your take on this and how you “could” do others but just had requirements you needed. It’s fairly cheap, presented amazing and concise. Benefits of “can be used for other stuff cus it’s a Pi” are great. Really love this video. Will be subscribing to see what else you have. 10/10 mate, keep up the awesome work.
Thank you for showing, quite clearly, how simple it is to do a project like this. Gives me hope I might make a version that works, too. Something to do with that small stack of RPI3 over in the corner.
Fun fact, every company selling their product on Amazon needs to have a registered trademark. Trademarks take time to be approved because research has to be done to find if they could be infringing. Quicker to get approved if your trademark is just a jumble of random letters. You'll notice it all over Amazon.
They don't (I sell on Amazon). But having a trademark allows you to have a nicer listing (A+ content instead of plain text), it also protects you a bit more against highjackers (who'd sell a dqdiezjf screen on your listing for a jdskjdsjd screen). What is mandatory, though, is to put your brand name in the listing title. And you absolutely don't want to infringe on someone else's trademark, which is easy when your brand name is xcxc,;xnvcx
Thanks for the review, the diasplay indeed works (with touch) on RPi4. I didn't get the touch feature working on a RPi3, but for me that is not an issue :)
Random question which I may have missed, but as well as being portable, do you have it plugged in when don't need it to be portable? Do you just plug into the power bank or something?
@@scottpinhorne There's a guy on UA-cam (Everything one place or something like that) who does great charger and power banks reviews and he always checks that: some power banks don't renegotiate their power delivery when their input is plugged/unplugged and so can be used as a UPS
This Video is almost everything I could think to want. Since this is a Raspi is there any chance to tack on an ESP32 for wake word execution for everything under the Home Assistant Sun. Also this isn't a: Well you should've / could've, as it is it's a could that even be a thing. Because that would be the trigger for me. As I want to install a Shelly EM inside my Breaker Panel to monitor energy usage on a Panel display, along with a few other bobs, and ends like Calendar sync. And heating controls. And the less I can feed Google, or (Sc)Amazon, or pay for a Nabu Casa sub., well thats just a bonus ain't it?
I was thinking of going for the pi route but would an old Chromebook that has a touch screen display work? These can usually run linux or Flex after physically removing one of the screws. Dunno if touch screen or tablet mode would still work.
Nothing personal, and you do you. But, this to me feels sloppy. I have at least for testing purposes HA running on a virtual Machine on my QNAP NAS, and well it works. I just get the feeling it could work better on something else. Say a Raspi for instance.
@@Ichijoe2112 if it works well and your happy with it why waste time you could be using for something else just because you feel it could be better? A VM works for me and I agree it could be better :-)
Forgetting to note which RasPi you might be using. Thanks to (Sc)Amazon my new RasPi 4 w/8GB RAM should hopefully be arriving tomorrow. I gather that this is pretty much the baseline as current.
@@Ichijoe2112 Running HA on a RPi is stupid, ignorant, and uninformed. Good for testing/learning; that is it. All of the Read/Writes on a busy HA instance can kill the Micro SD relatively quickly. If you have a VM server about, why not run HA there??? A VM (with good resources) will out perform a RPi any day.
@@scottpinhorne I see you said OS lite, but I see you have a desktop environment. Did you end up using a different img? It seems like its an issue with the raspberry pi as the touch screen works with my computer. I am really wanting this to work
@@scottpinhorne The same here! I tried to get it! No success! No touch is possible! Which OS did you use? Lite or Desktop? Which cable is essential at the boot time? Any useful hints, to solve it? Thanks for the helps!
Probably a dumb question but if I get the Home Assistant Green can I just plug it into the tablet that is shown on this video and go from there with everything set up once I create my account?
@@steveweiland5841 I’ve just read it has a HDMI port but states it’s for diagnostic purposes only so it’s unlikely that it will output a display and more than likely it outputs a text console only so sadly no.
I followed your steps several times and can not seem to get the touch working. I noticed the working version you show is a different product other than what you linked.
@@jasontaschereau8785 no it’s the port on the screen. It has a couple of usb ports. Another viewer had same issues and if I recall they had to make sure it was connected to the bottom, if memory serves me. I’ve also checked and depending on the install of OS there maybe a touch option to enable.
@@jasontaschereau8785 I have 3 different screens i was using for broll and that i bought for testing. These were the other 2 however all 3 and working this end: amzn.to/3vVTdR1 + amzn.to/3U1q4Mp
Here's me coming to your video thinking you was going to show me how to create an ultimate dashboard. Lol
This is freaking amazing. I was thinking about adding a screen but then thought I was being unreasonably stupid with my new ideas related to HA. So, I am not the only one filled with what might seem like stupid ideas when it comes to HA. It is literally 4:00 AM here in Berlin, and I just finished integrating my SONOFF smart modules.
Refreshing to see a video about your take on this and how you “could” do others but just had requirements you needed. It’s fairly cheap, presented amazing and concise. Benefits of “can be used for other stuff cus it’s a Pi” are great. Really love this video. Will be subscribing to see what else you have. 10/10 mate, keep up the awesome work.
That’s the nuts…. it seems so simple 😅
You, good sir, are fun to watch. Keep it up.
Thank you for showing, quite clearly, how simple it is to do a project like this. Gives me hope I might make a version that works, too. Something to do with that small stack of RPI3 over in the corner.
Oh looks like i found a new project , cheers
Did you use fully browser
Fun fact, every company selling their product on Amazon needs to have a registered trademark. Trademarks take time to be approved because research has to be done to find if they could be infringing. Quicker to get approved if your trademark is just a jumble of random letters. You'll notice it all over Amazon.
Another fun fact is this setup doesn't work as shown
They don't (I sell on Amazon). But having a trademark allows you to have a nicer listing (A+ content instead of plain text), it also protects you a bit more against highjackers (who'd sell a dqdiezjf screen on your listing for a jdskjdsjd screen).
What is mandatory, though, is to put your brand name in the listing title. And you absolutely don't want to infringe on someone else's trademark, which is easy when your brand name is xcxc,;xnvcx
How do you get Home Assistance to launch in full screen when the device starts?
Thanks for the review, the diasplay indeed works (with touch) on RPi4. I didn't get the touch feature working on a RPi3, but for me that is not an issue :)
stumbled up on your content! i love you!
@@Cookie87820 LOL Thanks
Wow, thanks Scott, this is amazing. My new project!
It doesn't work don't waste your money
nice project, can you tell me what cameras do you use ? ip , wifi ? please,
I have Eufy Cameras. Plenty of their videos on my channel :-)
Random question which I may have missed, but as well as being portable, do you have it plugged in when don't need it to be portable? Do you just plug into the power bank or something?
When it’s not being moved around I leave it plugged into the mains 😊
Thanks@@scottpinhorne I guess my question is really do you plug the battery into the mains which is always plugged into the Pi?
@@dparkinson6 that was the plan but since the video I have found the power bank doesn’t pass thru when I connect mains without restarting.
@@scottpinhorne There's a guy on UA-cam (Everything one place or something like that) who does great charger and power banks reviews and he always checks that: some power banks don't renegotiate their power delivery when their input is plugged/unplugged and so can be used as a UPS
how long till you have to charge the powerbank?
This Video is almost everything I could think to want. Since this is a Raspi is there any chance to tack on an ESP32 for wake word execution for everything under the Home Assistant Sun.
Also this isn't a: Well you should've / could've, as it is it's a could that even be a thing. Because that would be the trigger for me. As I want to install a Shelly EM inside my Breaker Panel to monitor energy usage on a Panel display, along with a few other bobs, and ends like Calendar sync. And heating controls. And the less I can feed Google, or (Sc)Amazon, or pay for a Nabu Casa sub., well thats just a bonus ain't it?
I was thinking of going for the pi route but would an old Chromebook that has a touch screen display work? These can usually run linux or Flex after physically removing one of the screws. Dunno if touch screen or tablet mode would still work.
How have you done to leave the chrome with nothing, just the image of the homeassistant?. Nice work
My home assistant menu is minimised to the left and then Chrome is in full screen mode 😄
so where do you have Home Assistent running.. it isn;t on the PI..
Correctamondo 😊 I have Home Assistant running as a virtual machine on a laptop which I also use for my Plex, DynDNS, Radarr & Sonarr.
Nothing personal, and you do you. But, this to me feels sloppy. I have at least for testing purposes HA running on a virtual Machine on my QNAP NAS, and well it works. I just get the feeling it could work better on something else. Say a Raspi for instance.
@@Ichijoe2112 if it works well and your happy with it why waste time you could be using for something else just because you feel it could be better? A VM works for me and I agree it could be better :-)
Forgetting to note which RasPi you might be using. Thanks to (Sc)Amazon my new RasPi 4 w/8GB RAM should hopefully be arriving tomorrow. I gather that this is pretty much the baseline as current.
@@Ichijoe2112 Running HA on a RPi is stupid, ignorant, and uninformed. Good for testing/learning; that is it. All of the Read/Writes on a busy HA instance can kill the Micro SD relatively quickly. If you have a VM server about, why not run HA there??? A VM (with good resources) will out perform a RPi any day.
The touch screen doesnt seem to work out of the box. Did you have to do anything to get it working?
Thanks for your question. I didn’t need to enable anything. I am connected to the bottom type-c port for the touch and hdmi port for output.
@@scottpinhorne I see you said OS lite, but I see you have a desktop environment. Did you end up using a different img? It seems like its an issue with the raspberry pi as the touch screen works with my computer. I am really wanting this to work
@@scottpinhorne
The same here!
I tried to get it! No success! No touch is possible!
Which OS did you use? Lite or Desktop?
Which cable is essential at the boot time?
Any useful hints, to solve it?
Thanks for the helps!
SOLVE:
From the bottom...1. HDMI, 2. USB C (POWER), 3. USB C to USB A (to Raspberry, needed for the touch feature)!
@@hjlhjl2558 no dice, what version of pi are you running?
Probably a dumb question but if I get the Home Assistant Green can I just plug it into the tablet that is shown on this video and go from there with everything set up once I create my account?
@@steveweiland5841 I’ve just read it has a HDMI port but states it’s for diagnostic purposes only so it’s unlikely that it will output a display and more than likely it outputs a text console only so sadly no.
Great video mate!
How you put Homeassistant on the same raspberry pi?
I haven’t 😀 My HA runs as a virtual machine on a spare laptop I have at home that runs as my server.
This doesn't work with a raspberry pi anyways
@@jasontaschereau8785 Second comment you've made saying that. Its a 15" display connected with HDMI to a raspberry pi, if it isn't working, its you.
Wont a cheap tablet off amazon do the same thing without the headaches? I'm sure there are plenty of 12-15inch at amazon under 150bucks.
@@evgenidimitrov2639 no cheap 15.6 ones :-(
Excellent 👍👍
Great job
Does that flavour of pi come with wifi then?
@@daphnetilling6034 it does indeed 😊
I followed your steps several times and can not seem to get the touch working. I noticed the working version you show is a different product other than what you linked.
Apparently it needs to be in a certain port for the touch to work.
A port that's not on a raspberry pie. Nobody likes a fraud.
@@jasontaschereau8785 no it’s the port on the screen. It has a couple of usb ports. Another viewer had same issues and if I recall they had to make sure it was connected to the bottom, if memory serves me. I’ve also checked and depending on the install of OS there maybe a touch option to enable.
If it's just a port why then do you not show the htznr screen you link working in your video
@@jasontaschereau8785 I have 3 different screens i was using for broll and that i bought for testing. These were the other 2 however all 3 and working this end: amzn.to/3vVTdR1 + amzn.to/3U1q4Mp
Could probably find an older touch screen laptop tablet thingy no one wants for 30 bucks used. but 15 inches is harder to find for sure.
Set up a script that will automatically run Chrome for you with the address of home asustent in full screen
Since filming this i have added a Chromium kiosk command into the auto start so it will boot straight into home assistant in full screen 🙂
It turns out, bears do shit in the woods 😄
Used Android tablet would be the way to go. Cheaper, less e-waste
I haven’t been able to find a 15’ tablet cheaper ☺️ do you have any recommendations?
An old iPad would work...
I thought and have one but not big enough for me 😔
Boy that was a lot of work not to see it working
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I’m thinking about a follow up, what do you think?