I have been diligently working on getting a tablet set up for wall mounting at a door entry to arm/disarm HSM, etc. The tablet is mounted. The underlying infrastructure was working well enough that I was confident in presenting it to the significant other for a trial run.
I armed-away HSM and waited for S/O's return home from work. S/O arrived and was prompted to Disarm HSM. Sure as shootin' S/O's touches were not recognized by the tablet touchscreen. Touches for code entry were hit & miss which essentially put the kibosh on the project. (I had been successfully using the touch screen throughout the day making tweaks and double checking my work prior to presentation.)
S/O has Raynaud syndrome and had just come in from the cold.
The Tablet is a Lenovo M8 running Fully Kiosk Browser. I am thinking that the best resolve will be to add a physical keypad to the mix so S/O can get in the house as well as others who might also have a challenge with a touch screen.
Its probably not from the Raynaud syndrome, but more just due to very dry skin worsened by the cold. This happens to me on my phone or tablet when it is very cold / dry out. I found if I get my fingers a little wet and dry them back off it works fine again for a little while.
So yeah, a button keypad would probably be a good idea especially if alarms will start going off without putting in a code.
I use an M8 as my bedside dashboard and find the touch sensitivity is not great. Occasionally it will not register touches...will try the fix suggested by @jtp10181.
Thanks to all for input. I pulled out a stylus that has been sitting in the pencil/pen coffee cup holder and that was an immediate workaround. S/O had better luck this morning with inputting key code using finger tips but the touch screen reaction is uneven. Good to be aware of Grizzebeard's 1st hand experience with the touchscreen of an M8. The M8 installed on the wall at the moment is a 2nd generation M8 running Android 10. I do have a 4th generation M8 Android Go version 12 and a onn. 7" surf gen 3 tablet on hand. I will try these devices to see if either has touch screen performance that is more consistent. I will however go ahead and invest in a physical keypad to hopefully mitigate code input issues as well as having an interface that the vast majority of folks are familiar. Thanks Again.
