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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Non Google/Alexa integrated touch screen displays with speakers (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 year ago by AmbientNPC to c/homeassistant

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Ideally what im looking for is something like a nest hub but without any built in assistant. I was thinking about buying a cheap tablet and keeping it on a dock or making something custom with a raspi but im curious if anyone has found an off the shelf alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pi's are very hard to find these days. If you don't want to go full DIY assembly and service setup, then best bet would be a cheap android tablet, maybe rooted with LineageOS if you really don't want an assistant and no tracking, then just use the homeassistant app as a dashboard on it. You can buy a 90 degree power cable so that it isn't too noticable or even a flexible Qi charger adapter and put the charger hidden in a mounting bracket behind it.

[–] AmbientNPC 1 points 1 year ago

I have a few leftover pis from other projects but its looking like a tablet will probably be the easiest/most elegant solution. I hadnt heard of lineagOS ill take a look into that thanks!

[–] kraxyk 2 points 1 year ago

I bought a Fire Tablet HD 10 just for that purpose. It gets the job done

[–] jerrimu -1 points 1 year ago

Newer iPads can run Siri offline,