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


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