Has anyone tried Freekiosk yet instead of Fully Kiosk? Its open-source with some of the same features that Fully Kiosk but for free. I am using its Rest API paired with a motion sensor and smart plug to control screen and charging on/off but it also has ability to connect to MQTT so I would be curious how it could integrate with Hubitat's new MQTT capabilities.
I’ve never heard of of freekiosk until now and after reviewing how freekiosk compares its self against fullykiosk… free does not give me the warm and fuzzies. While i’m a big fan of open source and having good app selections there are somethings freekiosk gets wrong/purposely incomplete about fully.
- Fully supports more Android OS versions. Fully just dropped support for Android 5
- Fully IS free but if you want advanced features it’s only ~£8 per device forever.
- Fully added MQTT support in 1.3.4 ~2019
- Fully reports its privacy in the play store, it’s not unknown
- Fully provides complete lockdown: no status bar, no notifications, no navigation buttons, automatic restart on crash, and no way for users to exit the kiosk… w/o the need for device owner.
From the use case you posted about:
Fully can use the android camera as a motion detector and turn the screen on w/o an extra device or hubitat. It’s a setting in the app and is a plus feature.
Plus this community driver exposes the camera as a motion sensor and SO, SO much more
If you are looking for a project, something to expand your tech knowledge Freekiosk looks perfect, though i’d hold off on the MQTT bits till those MQTT bugs are fixed in GA from the release notes.
So I guess you won't be on the list giving it a shot. 
Which one dropped support for Android 5? Regardless, Android 5 is 10+ years old so a non-factor for my use-case.
If you activate MQTT in Free, it has option to do same at the bottom of settings. I can't get MQTT Import Integration to work in Hubitat. It finds my 24 devices in Zigbee2MQTT but doesn't give me any status. For all of my other Home Assistant devices, it only finds 1 device and 9 topics so I can't test Freekiosk. I can confirm that it is sending MQTT messages to my broker though.
I am not sure why Freekiosk would be considered a tech project. I just know a lot of people don't want to pay for Fully Kiosk for each device separately and I haven't seen any other options except Wallpanel posted here until I found Freekiosk.
I’m not much of an android user so don’t know what to compare to, but are these details for Freekiosk not sufficient?
Now that MQTT is connected, there is now a kitchentablet device in Home Assistant with lots of switches and sensors. That includes Motion that shows Active in history more than 30 minutes ago but I can't get it to trigger by walking up to it now so I am not sure what changed in last 30 minutes.
One of the switches is powering screen off & on so if I can figure out why the Motion sensor isn't triggering like expected, I can get rid of my external motion sensor at tablet.
after reviewing how freekiosk compares its self against fullykiosk… This is what i’m talking about… Fully reports its privacy in the play store, it’s not unknown.
Naw, i think what i payed for fully was money well spent back in 2018. I’m a big fan of supporting developers when they write software that makes your life easier, so i vote for what i want by spending money on it.
Ah now I see what you mean, freekiosk’s interpretation of how fully’s privacy policy compares. Thanks.
Thinking of mounting a kiosk tablet on wall.
Would like a clean mount without wires showing.
Can provide a “clock receptacle” (recessed outlet) behind it.
Would like a “picture frame” look.
I am also cheap! Money is NOT no object.
Any recommendations from the android gang (I drink the Apple juice.)
No worries, stuff like that is a yellow flag for me. Both apps apps have publicly available privacy policy’s documented on the play store. While they are different, stating the app you are comparing yourself too has unknown privacy when it’s documented on the play store and on fullys website just seams sketchy.
The Freekiosk developer just meant that Fully Kiosk's policy was unknown TO HIM
So the developer compared his app to an app w/o checking the play store or the apps website? Naw thats not sketchy at all. I am glad it’s installed on your network and not mine. 
