I’ve been on a home automation kick for the last little while, so what better time than to dust off an old project and put up a home / family dashboard in the kitchen/dining room!
Previously, I had this running off a FireTV and MagicMirror. This worked well enough… but oh man is the FireTV browser terrible. Plus I had to do some crazy things to get it to stay on and never could get it to launch right back into the display on a power outage. So now we have version 2!
In the end, I ended up with:
- An Orange Pi Zero 2W for the brains
- Armbian for the operating system
- Chromium as the browser (I did try Firefox first…)
- Home Assistant for the data, remote control, and UI
- WallPanel to hide the side/top bar
- Browser Mod for remote control
Not too bad.