Looking for a wall display enabling to permanently show outside temperature reported within HC2 environment

[fibarouser 2]

Hi,

I am looking for a solution that would make it possible to display in the apartment the temperature outside (on a permanent basis, i.e. a wall display). The measurement of the  outside temperature is done via the DS18B20 sensor connected to a Fibaro Universal Binary Sensor - and reported within the Home Center 2 environment. Many thanks!

[RH_Dreambox 179]

Perhaps this is what you are looking for?
A 10 "tablet with the ImperiHome app is sitting on the wall in my hall.
ImperiHome retrieves any data from Fibaro and many other systems.
It will be a nice and transparent information.

 

 

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[fibarouser 2]

Many thanks for this! The solution looks perfect and makes it possible to display additional data in one place, plus helps control home devices. I already started thinking of nicely placing an old android tablet on the wall but I first set up an account and tested the service. So there is a one "but" with the ImperiHome service: to have a meaninful frame/interface one has to purchase the premium option. I would not mind paying a one-off charge to purchase an additional frame (even if the price is higher) but have a directional issue with paying a monthly subscription. As much as the fee of a few dollars per month seems nominal, I just do not like a recurring fee.

 

For now, I might look for a spare smartphone and stick with one frame just to show the outside temperature as originally intended. Fibaro suggested just to use their app and display the temperature on a smartphone but the display is of a smalller size and there seems no way to zoom in, at least on their Iphone app.

 

Perhaps there are alternative providers to ImperiHome?

 

In the end, I still think that Fibaro or a third party manufacturer would benefit from creating a simple Andruino-like LCD that would communicate directly (emphasis added) with the system. One could hang it in a desired room (where there are temperature or other sensors) and presumably the cost of this solution would be less than arranging for a tablet or a phone. Plus, giving login credentials to a third party provider (ImperiHome) and channelling all this through the internet by default creates additional security risk (envisioning someone mallitiously open up my roof windows during the rain; people also have security systems, in-home cameras and the like).

 

Thank you for sharing the solution in any event.

[FJW 2]

Hi fibarouser,

 

I have chosen for: Home Remote - 

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It is free.

 

There is A LOT you can do with it and there are A LOT of plugins and one of them is Fibaro.

For Fibaro there are only scenes and devices available but via HttpClient calls you can also get the GlabalVariables.

 

I just finished my setup:

 

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Cheers.

[fibarouser 2]

Hi FJW,

The screen also looks very classy and the free of charge offering goes without saying. I will definitely give it a try. Is there any downside of using http calls? Will I need to write any scripts and if so, will it be a challenge for tech-savvy newbie? Apologies for these questions but I did not have time yet to do some background reading on this.

 

As a side note, interesting to see that there are so few players on the market oferring a comprehensive screen display of home automation devices. This is such a nice add-on to smartphone/computer navigation. Also, one would think that Fibaro will offer something along these lines. Their customer support suggested to install their app on a designated tablet/smartphone but it does not seem that you can do as much graphically with that (plus it looks like it would offer less versitality from the integration perspective).

 

As a starting point, I have my old android phone set up already and showing the outside temp via the Fibaro app :-). The next project is to get an aluminium frame welded and powder coated - mainly for the tablet but might also do the phone one. Always taking a difficult way  but holders available on the market are just not suited for nicely hanging the devices on the wall.

 

Cheers,

[rajp 14]

On 9/29/2018 at 2:36 PM, RH_Dreambox said:

Perhaps this is what you are looking for?
A 10 "tablet with the ImperiHome app is sitting on the wall in my hall.
ImperiHome retrieves any data from Fibaro and many other systems.
It will be a nice and transparent information.

 

 

 

 

 

Looks great.. what tablet did you buy?? And is it wall mounted?? What mount did you go for?? What I am looking for is a way to have my CCTV app running on the Tablet but only switch the tablet on when the motion is detected in the hallway or outside the house. I have a Fibaro Motion sensor in the hallway and also have PIR sensors wired which are connected to Fibaro Modules so they trigger a breach.. if the tablet takes too long to switch on, then I don't mind it dimming the screen to really low setting and just change the setting to full brightness when the sensor is breached.. then it can go back after a min to dim state again...

[RH_Dreambox 179]

I bought a cheap Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) WiFi 32GB (less than 200 €).
There are wall brackets to buy but I made my own bracket with three fastening points.

[rajp 14]

On 11/29/2018 at 4:15 PM, RH_Dreambox said:

I bought a cheap Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) WiFi 32GB (less than 200 €).
There are wall brackets to buy but I made my own bracket with three fastening points.

Just to follow up on this.. I have borrowed a friends Samsung Tablet and installed Automate for Android.. In there, I have created a flow that allows me to turn the brightness of screen to 100% and then open the CCTV app, and keep it running for 2 mins and then dim the screen to 1%... my only issue is, how do I send a command from Fibaro to the Tablet...