Koffienl's tablet guide: Frame for wall mounted tablet

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This guide is just to give you guys some ideas on how to mount a tablet to the wall. Your hardware and situation my be different than my guide, just adopt to your own situation and use this to inspire yourself.

Used hardware and parts:

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1
• USB 2.0 micro kabel - 1 meter (with angle connector)
• Ikea pictureframe (Ribba 21x30 cm)
• Some plywood laying around in the shed
• Custom made passe partout (outside: 21x30 cm , inside 13x21 cm)

I had the opportunity to have a spare tablet, perfect for this project. I flashed the tablet with ‘cm-13.0-20161210-UNOFFICIAL-santos10wifi’ to get to CyanogenMod 13.0 with Android 6.0.1
After searching for some nice picture frames with a passe partout big enough for the display I almost gave up the project, but someone pointed me to Ikea
There I bought the Ribba in size 21x30 cm, it fits the tablet perfect and is 4 cm deep. After fiddling around with some pieces of scrap plywood I cut a passe partout. It was OK-ish but you could see easy that it wasn’t a nice clean straight cut.
After some research I ordered a custom made passe partout (about 7,25 euro @ https://www.fotolijsten-online.nl/). The passe partout cam out real nice. Just to be sure I let them make 2: a white one and a black one. The black one gave the best overall look.

There was already a hole in the wall, used for a signal cable with my old thermostat. Because I have hollow walls in my house, it was an easy job to get some wiring though the wall to a outlet socket. Stowed away in a corner there is a 220v plug in the outlet, runs into the wall to go to the place where the tablet is. Inside the wall on the other end of the cable is a plug where a 220v USB converter is plugged in.
I used a USB cable with an angle on the connector so it doesn’t take up much space inside the picture frame.

Al the stuff inside the picture frame is just put in without mounting or gluing it to the frame. It is an easy job to grab the entire frame from the wall and take out the tablet for some maintenance.

When you’re finished with building a frame for you tablet you can start controlling the tablet with Pimatic : https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/3312/koffienl-s-tablet-guide-control-tablet-with-pimatic

Looking good @koffienl !!

Hoping for some ‘Action’ pics with Pimatic running!!

In the meanwhile i would like to point you in the direction of a android program named “Fully Kiosk Browser” (maybe you’ve already heard of it) which could switch off your screen when nobody is around and which could autoload the pimatic page on startup (and lots & lots more!)!

Looking forward to your next update!

@Stokstaart said in Koffienl's tablet guide: Frame for wall mounted tablet:

Looking good @koffienl !!

Hoping for some ‘Action’ pics with Pimatic running!!

In the meanwhile i would like to point you in the direction of a android program named “Fully Kiosk Browser” (maybe you’ve already heard of it) which could switch off your screen when nobody is around and which could autoload the pimatic page on startup (and lots & lots more!)!

Looking forward to your next update!

Thanks!
I use tasker to control my tablet (https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/3312/koffienl-s-tablet-guide-control-tablet-with-pimatic). In normal sitautions my tablet has 3 modes: My own PimaticGUI in kiosk mode, Android Daydream screensaver with family pictures or screen off.

@koffienl

I use tasker to control my tablet

I tried to get the same performance and possibilities with Tasker as i have with Fully, didn’t succeed… I found fully is (one of the-) best Kiosk browsers out there, at a fair price. But you can always try a trial version (with full functionality)!

@Stokstaart said in Koffienl's tablet guide: Frame for wall mounted tablet:

I tried to get the same performance and possibilities with Tasker

Weird, I have no issues at all with tasker. Everything I want to do with the tablet works as I need

Weird, I have no issues at all with tasker. Everything I want to do with the tablet works as I need

Wait, you managed to turn the screen on when movement was detected?? I’ll have to dig into that!

@Stokstaart said in Koffienl's tablet guide: Frame for wall mounted tablet:

Weird, I have no issues at all with tasker. Everything I want to do with the tablet works as I need

Wait, you managed to turn the screen on when movement was detected?? I’ll have to dig into that!

No The tablet is turned on and off based on rules in Pimatic.
Most of these rules are driven by the presence of people in the house.
(I’m not even sure if my tablet has a proximity sensor, and if it does it is covered by the passe partout )

Basicly:

• If anybody home and after 05:00 -> turn on screen
• If nobody home -> turn off screen
• If anybody home and after 22:00 and main lights are off -> turn off screen

And you could also use a PIR to detect people nearby if you really want it

you could also detect a motion via the tablet camera and tasker to activate the screen…