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• TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Heat, then suction?

  On a related note, I solved the battery issue with my wall mounted Fire tablet (for an HA dashboard) by connecting the power supply to a smart plug and setting up an automation to only give it the juice for about 3 hours per day, spread throughout the day

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It still amazes me that the smartest phones aren’t yet smart enough to have direct power supply.

    Like my 40 year old AM radio.

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    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because $$$ !

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  • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve done similar with an old Android tablet. Installed Fully Kiosk Browser to display the dashboard AND read the battery level - above 75%, switch off power…

    But… automations only trigger when going past the threshold once, so if there’s a random issue where HA doesn’t see the battery drop below 10%, (had that happen a few times in the past), then I also have multiple triggers for 5% and 2%… to turn the power back on again 😉

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    • TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, the tablet runs Fully Kiosk and I tried the same thing with the battery percentage thing and ran into the same issue, so I just simplified and made the automation time-based.

      The tablet also likes to freeze a few times a day, so I also created an automation that toggles the smart plug power whenever HA loses connection to the tablet for more than 5 seconds, then toggles back to the original state at the start of the automation, which corrects the problem. Until the next time. But hey! It was only $60, so it’s fine.

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      • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ah, good call on using the power to get the tablet to respond… I don’t have that problem (tablet freezing), but it does drop off the wifi sometimes.

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