Hi! I’m new here, and just got started with openHAB (2), really like the platform and all the bindings! Great work. I’m using an official raspberry pi 7" touchscreen that i’ve built into the wall of my living room to control openHAB (apart from my phone and tablet). Currently I use the basic ui in…

[image] bramkragten: Kivy do you know that both iOS and android have specific apps for openhab? maybe your time bring more value by helping these projects…

Does a raspberry pi run iOS or Android? OK, it can run Android but not well yet… Besided that, I don’t think the UI of the native apps is the best for a dashboard.

Hi @fog , I have seen it yes, that indeed looks awesome. I was thinking of making something like that for the raspberry. Before I start on Kivy, i’ll try to run android on my pi, but what I’ve read so far, does not sound promising…

[image] bramkragten: I was thinking of making something like that for the raspberry. just out of curiosity, why is it important to have it on the raspberry? Why can’t you work with an android tablet?

[image] yves: [image] bramkragten: I was thinking of making something like that for the raspberry. just out of curiosity, why is it important to have it on the raspberry? Why can’t you work with an android tablet? Purely aesthetic, I didn’t want to stick tablet on my wall, with wires …

I realized that I had some bias here, for me, I assumed that a touchscreen would be less nicely then a premade tablet. I did not think about the flexibility of the screen on how you make it look. thanks for explaining. Make sense now.

I’m also heading in the RPI/touchscreen direction. My main objective is to freely choose TFT size and use ethernet/PoE, so I’ll be interested to hear about your progress. Why do you think Android will be a problem?

[image] vespaman: I’m also heading in the RPI/touchscreen direction. My main objective is to freely choose TFT size and use ethernet/PoE, so I’ll be interested to hear about your progress. Why do you think Android will be a problem? Because as far I’m aware there is no hardware acceleration …

According to this site http://raspex.exton.se/?p=356 both wifi and bt is up, and since he also mentions youtube as working, graphics shouldn’t be too bad? This is the RPI3 though.

Raspberry pi touch screen interface with Kivy

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fog (Marc) August 8, 2016, 12:24pm 4

Hi @bramkragten

have you seen project rotini created by @igor? I personally think it looks good as a dash.
However as you say a pi might not be the best option for android but what I’ve seen so far is that it should work. Should you give it a try either Kivy or Android on the PI please let us know.