Walldisplay or Tablet and other questions

Questions & Help
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Hello everyone,

I’ve had the Homey Pro 2026 for about two weeks now.

Created setup:

Hue Bridge with many lights, motion detectors, etc.

Reolink with 10 cameras (6 in Germany, 4 in Spain), two Home Hub Pros

Live streaming is already running on the dashboard via the Reolink app
Switchbot temperature/humidity sensors

Samsung Smart TV

Several flows and advanced flows are running.

Goal:

External screen/tablet mounted on the wall as a wall display for the dashboard and Reolink livestream

Without motion detection, a gallery of images should scroll across the screen. Upon movement or approach, the dashboard should appear. The following hardware is under consideration:

iiyama Prolite S2225AS-B1P because it’s nice and large and runs Android.

Samsung Galaxy Tab A11+ (I’d actually prefer a larger screen so images would be more eye-catching).

Integrate Alexa Echo devices to use the speakers for announcements, etc.

Add a smartphone or tablet as a device in Homey.

I already have the Homey app on both my tablet and smartphone (both Samsung).

Geofencing works, but how can I assign notifications or actions to individual devices? I can’t find them in Homey.

Kiosk App/Kiosk Browser

Of course, I’ve already thoroughly searched the forum here and came across kiosk apps/kiosk browsers. What do I need them for in my case? The wall display is only for my family; I can just mount the tablet/monitor on the wall and then start the dashboard. Why would I need a kiosk then? I don’t understand that.

Yakk or similar Tasker apps

I installed Yakk on a tablet for testing purposes. The “screen reappears when you approach” feature works, but the screen goes off again after about 5 seconds. I’ve also tried changing the values ​​in the app’s settings, but I’m not sure what I need to do. Lock it? … I don’t understand it.

What about Tasker?

Webhook??? Web requests??? I hope you know what I mean???

In Flows, you use many of these “requests” to get information from devices or to perform actions on those devices. I’m not a computer scientist, but I’m not completely clueless either. I can, of course, access the IP addresses of the devices on my system via my Fritz!Box, but after the IP address, there are often more numbers and characters, and a port number??? I don’t understand any of that anymore. Do you have any tips/instructions/anything I could try to figure this out? I think I can program most Flows this way.

Lots of questions from me. If you need more information, I’d be happy to provide it. I’m not very clear on my writing and I only delve into a topic when it’s relevant to me. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find the information I need on many of these topics.

Have a great weekend!

Christoph (this text was translated from german)

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If you are thinking of individual devices as in your phone and tablet, I think your only solution here is to make a seperate user for the tablet or phone. Then you can send notifications through push from your Homey flows to the designated device.

If you want a slideshow running on the screen when no motion is detected you need a kiosk app like Fully Kiosk Browser. With this you can make flows in Homey that changes wich app you are running on the tablet/screen on the wall. As long as you have an Android devices as you have this works fine. For example can you assign a button or motion detector that switches between the dashboard and screenshow on the screen. Say the motion detector is placed so it detects motion 1-2 meters from the screen. Build your flow so that it shows the screenshow when no motion is detected. And when motion is detected you can change the app to the dashboard. I’m guessing you are using Homeys built in dashboard function?

With the Fully Kiosk Browser you also can set how long the screen should be activated and when its going to sleep mode.

In Homey you need this app:

https://homey.app/en-us/app/nl.xseth.dashboardctrl/Dashboard-Controller/

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Hi Oyvind

Thanks for your feedback. Now I finally know what the Kiosk Browser is for. I especially appreciated your information about which Homey app I need. I couldn’t find that information anywhere else.

Could you perhaps explain the difference between the Kiosk Browser and the Kiosk App? Are they the same thing? I work with Android on Samsung Hardware.

I want to use the Homey App, not the website.

Regards,
Christoph

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The Fully Kiosk Browser and App are the same. My bad not pointing that clearly out.

You can check it out on their website where it is also and link to the app in Play Store.

When this is installed on your device you can connect the device to your Homey and use these action cards to control it:

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You can start specific applications on your tablet, e.g. Homey app with the dashboard open, or the app you are using to show the slideshow. Or you can even load URLs if you want that. Maybe that works with the Reolink you mentioned earlier? I have no experience with those devices..

I haven’t tried this so much, but did play around with it a while ago and managed to control my phone through easy flows/and buttons in Homey.

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Thank you so much!

I’ll do some reading and then try things out.

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You can only send to an account with the Homey app. You can use an app like MacroDroid or Olisto and then use webhooks to trigger the notifications.