My family got lots of use out of a 10" touchscreen tablet mounted on the wall displaying a hubitat dashboard but have wanted more screen real estate to show our various google calendars like a digital wall mounted family calendar.
After much research I settled on a 24" ViewSonic Touchscreen monitor (model TD2465) and a Raspberry Pi running the Dakboard Software (which recently supports touchscreens).
Dakboard is set to show frame of a hubitat dashboard, 3 different frames of nest cameras, a frame showing the current and hourly weather and a frame showing 8 different google calendars overlayed into one family calendar. The background changes every so often to keep things looking fresh. Can also show our family calendar in a regular calender view on the full 24" screen.
A smart plug turns the screen on when we're home and off when we leave the house or hubitat goes into Night mode. The screen will also turn on if motion detectors in our hallway detect motion overnight in case we get up in the middle of the night.
Really happy with the way it turned out and thought I would share as an option for others looking for a larger touchscreen.
Goog point about killing the power to the screen but I'm not sure of how to turn the screen off for the long periods of time it's not needed. Maybe there is some command that can be sent to a raspberry pi to turn on and off the video output?
Can I message you to get help getting started with this? I want to build this kind of wall calendar, but I have little experience with raspberry pi, etc.
Do you have any Details on how the Frame Showing Works/How are you showing the Nest Cameras, and do you have to pay a monthly subscription to DAKBoard for this?
I'm interested in building basically this exact thing, was originally thinking of using a Pixel Tablet Mounted to the wall running an HE Dashboard, but I'm not sure how I would get good Calendar/Camera integrations.
