Kindle Fire App and limiting access / control granularity

[Cascade1911 (Wayne)]

Two pieces to a single solution. What I’d like to do is setup a Kindle Fire with limited control and no ability to change things for use by house guests. Is there a way to do this? If not with the Kindle Fire, can I configure an app for a smartphone to have limited access/ control (and if so, how)?

[marktheknife (Mark)]

What you’re describing is a dashboard. See below for the most popular community-developed dashboard. It’s about to undergo a major new version release.

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We have been working very hard to re-engineer (and extensively Beta test!) your favorite smart home dashboard for the ultimate user experience, performance, security and growth. It is finally happening; you have been very patient, thank-you! We are happy to announce that this next generation web-app is now called ActionTiles™ and will be officially released on March 1st, 2017; ready to run on your desktops, tablets and mobile devices. ActionTiles has been totally reinvented, but honors the simplicity and power of its SmartTiles roots that you know and love. ActionTiles is packed with new features such as durable login sessions, real-time Tile updates, secure Panel Sharing, in-browser configuration UI, and more. We hope you’re going to be very pleased with the results. …

[Cascade1911 (Wayne)]

Thanks Mark. Do you know if “ActionTiles” is supposed to be available for the Kindle Fire? SmartTiles dies not appear to be listed in the App Store. If not, is there something similar that does work on the Fire?

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

@Cascade1911

Do you know if “ActionTiles” is supposed to be available for the Kindle Fire?

ActionTiles is a “web-app”; nothing to download and it works in many browsers.

While we recommend “Fully Kiosk Browser”, “Firefox”, or “Chrome” on your Amazon Fire; Silk is functional now (but not extensively tested due to it’s very small user base).

Please visit: https://www.ActionTiles.com to signup for access in March.

[RLDreams (Really Living the Dream)]

@tgauchat

Silk is functional now (but not extensively tested due to it’s very small user base).

I have 1 Fire running SmartTiles on Silk ( never got around to installing Google or anything on that one ) and it works fine. Only " issue" is that it doesn’t stay in full screen on refresh, so the address bar,browser tabs keep reappearing at the top of the screen.

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

@RLDreams

Only " issue" is that it doesn’t stay in full screen on refresh, so the address bar,browser tabs keep reappearing at the top of the screen.

I just tested ActionTiles (Beta) on current Silk, and it too is working fine.

We’ve added a full-screen HTML call, so we’re able to trigger full-screen mode on.

Reload currently also breaks out of full-screen mode, but we’re looking into it. Unlike SmartTiles, ActionTiles very seldom needs a “full reload / refresh”, though, so it’s less of a problem.