Hey Folks,
Just though I would pass along a good experience I am having that may help others in the "I want a larger Dashboard" group. I doubt this is anything new but could be helpful. Chromebooks are very common around my parts, and used ones are going for relatively good prices. I picked up a used ASUS Chromebook Flip 14" for $150 Canadian to try and use it for a dashboad display. It looks like the picture below.
I wasn't sure that Fully Kiosk would run on the ChromeOS due to the disclaimers on the fully website, but to my surprise it's working well. Super simple to setup, load Fully Kiosk on the Chromebook, load the driver in HE and away I went.
- Easy setup, Fully Kiosk Installs from Play Store
- Fully Remote Admin works, can make changes to Fully from your PC
- Battery reporting works, (I have installed with a Zigbee Outlet to charge when low, off when charged) (one quirk in the number of decimal places it reports sometimes, looking into this)
- Motion Sensing works, I use this to turn off the screensaver and provide a motion sensor for my Living Room
- Speak works, the TTS engine works very well, can use it for your announcements
- Siren works, upload your Wav siren sound to HE File Manager
- Beep works, Same as above, just need your own beep file
- Screen on / off doesn't work, but I use the ScreenSaver on / off and a black screen for this.
- ScreenSaver works, can put in your own picture for this or just use a black screen
