What about an arduino or NodeMCU with a large LED board? just drawing the Temp in big digits. I just set up a NodeMCU + little OLED to read a WeeWX json file for current data..
of course a large LED board might be the same $ as a tablet.. james On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:37 PM Dan Bunyard <danodem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good looking out, thanks. I think I have a Galaxy Tab A somewhere around > here. I may give that a shot first then move to the pi if it doesn't work > out. If I don't already have something I'll go the pi route. > > Do you have specific links to the EcoWitt stuff you mentioned? Can it be > expanded if I wanted to (thinking maybe lightning detection)? > > Thanks! > > On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 12:30:35 PM UTC-5 vince wrote: > >> On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 8:50:00 AM UTC-8, Dan Bunyard wrote: >>> >>> Maybe I'll see if I have an extra Android tablet lying around or pick up >>> an Amazon fire one and root it. >>> >> >> You want to be really careful with which tablets you use and how old they >> are. Reportedly a 'current' Kindle Fire works great and can be easily set >> to work as a kiosk, but my experience is not necesarily for all uses given >> the oddities of the Kindle browser. >> >> My one-gen-older 8" Fire wasn't good enough for me here but that might be >> nuances of the Home Assistant stuff I display here. My 2015 Samsung Tab2 >> tablet also could 'not' display everything I cooked up with node-red and >> HomeAssistant as its os isn't updated any more. >> >> A official pi display+case for $90 if you have the pi already is a >> guaranteed win long-term. Sometimes you just have to invest a few more >> bucks to future-proof yourself. But 'lots' of people go the tablet route... >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/0bc4a3a7-adbb-4f7c-815d-e6deb7dacf3dn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/0bc4a3a7-adbb-4f7c-815d-e6deb7dacf3dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAAjYkcCG%2BoFhPc5Yf2aXHeEWiQ-JbnQKHOOj5gkzwxZ_GsWeCg%40mail.gmail.com.
