Originally posted this on the forum for Home Assistant, but since I’m now a committed member of OpenHAB and have finally finished this piece, seems right to share it here instead.
The aim was to have a display mounted on the wall to host a dashboard. At the time, the Raspberry Pi screen was just released, and it seemed like a great and cost-effective way of doing this. The cables were all internal, but I had trouble figuring out ways to mount a screen effectively.
I purchased a screen case, but this didn’t help. There was no lip around the edge to screw into the wall, or where I could put velcro, etc. I eventually decided to make my own from a piece of MDF. It simply has a rebate to hold the screen, and a lip big enough to stick velcro tabs to (though in future I would like it a bit slimmer).
Works perfectly, and even though I don’t intend on doing it often, means I can quite easily take it off the wall to replace SD cards etc as they start to get faulty. I did need to make a bigger whole in order to make the cables flush, but could rectify this in future by having a much thicker frame and deeper recess (but you can’t see the hole anyway so maybe this is the best way).
