sgnihttrams
February 28, 2016, 8:40pm
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Rigging65:
I’ve been looking around and can’t seem to find an answer to this:
I’d like to mount a tablet on the wall(s) to make a control center. Here’s the rub, there is no way my wife is going to have a backlit display running on the wall. Can anyone point me in the direction of a non-backlit tablet?
In a perfect world, I’d like the tablet to have backlighting that comes on with touching the screen or home button, but then fades out, leaving a full screen non-backlit display running 24/7.
Ideas?
As an alternative…
If you don’t want to have some app constantly running the camera on your phone (unnecessary power drain), you could consider going the route I took here…
[Note: my immediate application for using this concept is with getting external motion sensors to wake an Android’s screen, but I will eventually want to do this with other sensors and different reactions as well]
I have seen this discussed in a lot of threads, and there are different pieces and parts of the concept all over the place. I wanted to see it specifically discussed in one place.
Generally speaking…
Z-Wave/Zigbee connected motion sensor detects motion
SmartThings gets notified
SmartThings sends notification to Android device as usual
Some app on Android device parses SmartThings notifications
App on Android sends command to wake Android device screen or other task on the Android device
Not Using Android Camera
This would waste energy. That’s why I want it to use an externa…
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