OpenHAB app on Amazon Fire Kids tablet

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Hi everyone,

I’ve bought an “Amazon Fire 8 Kids” tablet for my child and wanted to install the openHAB app there because the tablet is running Android as the basis OS.
But Amazon restricts the installing of apps only to their own Amazon marketplace where the app is not available.
So I installed the google playstore manually and was able to get the app installed on the tablet afterwards. It is now available for the parent’s account on the tablet.
But now I want to “unlock” this app for the kids account, so that they can have access to this app. This is not possible as I learned, because one can just give access for apps placed in the Amazon marketplace before. So installing openHAB just to the parent’s account was not the solution.

Is it planned that the openHAB app is getting available at the Amazon marketplace soon? Other automation apps like HomeAssistant are available there.
Or do you know a special trick to get the app being accessable in the kids account of the tablet?

Using the web frontend of the BasicUI was another idea, but here I need to grant access to the real webbrowser of the tablet for my child, what I don’t want to do. The restricted webbrowser with child-friendly websites does not allow to add own URLs to the whitelist.

The best would be to have the openHAB app available in the Amazon marketplace.

Thanks in advance for any hint or information!
Sebastian

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Open an issue on the openHAB Android app repo is all I can recommend. I know it’s published to f-Droid. I do know that Amazon makes publishing apps kind of onerous so there’s no guarantee that anyone will be willing to take that on, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. There’s a reason the Amazon marketplace is a wasteland of outdated and low quality apps for the most part.

Nope. I’ve abandoned Kindle for that reason. They don’t really provide parental controls, they provide Amazon controls only. It wasn’t long before mine outgrew it.

Instead I use the Google Family parental controls coupled with pretty stringent
DNS blocking on his devices using Ad Guard (you could do the same with PiHole). But that’s a whole lot more work for sure.