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> I have many uses for a smart, controllable and low-code screen in my house, and barely the time to figure it out myself.

I also don’t have time to figure it out, so I’m probably just going to buy a used iPad and put it on the wall. I’ll get a nice bright screen and anything I want to see just needs to be viewable in a web browser.

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I used to have an iPad (3rd gen) on the wall, then it died. I bought the cheapest new one to replace it, but the old Android tablet I had around had better bluetooth reach, so it went on the wall instead.

Old android tablets are notoriously unpatched against all kinds of things. It's easy to be paranoid that some passing foot traffic will infect it with a bluetooth worm, and you'll be none the wiser.

I'm accepting the risk for now, as I do enjoy configuring Home Assistant on it, and looking at the rainmap, but there are times when when a full tablet is overkill. FrameOS is for those cases.

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