I have been thinking of doing something similar, so I bought a Amazon Fire 8" tablet I didn't need on Black Friday for, I think about $60USD (currently about 90). You can currently get the 7" one for about $50. The Fire tablets are inexpensive in part because Amazon is selling you an Amazon promotion and advertisement machine.
You can (I have) use the XDA Developers "Fire Toolkit" to "de-amazon" the tablet and return it close to stock android. Installed the Material apk from F-Droid and I have it laying around in my main listening area to use as a squeezebox UI. You can modify it via developer options to stay awake, or, I believe there are non root options to have a "tap or swipe to wake" out there... My thought was to have it in a box with a pi, build the box to allow the charger micro USB to be inserted in the side (maybe a right angle adaptor). The only other challenge is if you leave it always on, or have a screensaver with tap or swipe to wake it. I haven't really tried to think that through yet as I haven't started the project, especially with rpi's in short supply. I think Ideally I would want it to remain on while playing, screensaver otherwise. Haven't looked into how to do that. The nice thing is the Material interface is wonderful (thanks again Craig!) and you also have a fully functioning tablet on the wall to be able to pop up weather, or whatever in addition to your sb control. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115645 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
