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Personally, I have a very old Kindle Fire mounted to the wall that I set to never go to sleep. Its still powerful enough to run a web browser to access the HA interface, so it's a good use of tech that would otherwise be sitting in the obsolete pile. However, it is just powered with a USB cable hanging across the wall, so not super elegant.
I wanted to do this with an old, first-gen Motorola Xoom! It's not supported by any of the Android forks or Linuxes, and Lovelace is too much for its browser. I'd have an issue hiding the proprietary power plug, and then there's the mount... so many hurdles!
Did you consider running power to yours through the wall?