Best Skin for Kiosk (8 inch tablet) Mode

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gary....@gmail.com

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Dec 19, 2020, 10:49:56 PM12/19/20
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What is the best skin to run unattended on an 8 inch display Android tablet?
I tried Belchertown and while it works, it is mighty small at 4+ feet.

Dave Webb KB1PVH

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Dec 19, 2020, 10:55:59 PM12/19/20
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Look at this one.
 http://kc1azz.ddns.net/weather/phone.html

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What is the best skin to run unattended on an 8 inch display Android tablet?
I tried Belchertown and while it works, it is mighty small at 4+ feet.

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gary....@gmail.com

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Dec 21, 2020, 12:47:34 AM12/21/20
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It doesn't update, so not useful for a tablet running unattended.

Greg from Oz

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Dec 21, 2020, 2:43:15 AM12/21/20
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If you want it to refresh just add this to the html in the <head> section:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300">
That way it will refresh every 300 seconds

Dave Webb KB1PVH

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Dec 21, 2020, 2:46:25 AM12/21/20
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Only take you about 30 seconds to add a refresh line in the html file


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Rob Cranfill

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Dec 21, 2020, 5:32:48 AM12/21/20
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I won't say this is the "best", but I just wrote this (OK, I'm still tweaking it) for my Raspberry Pi 7". It's a super simple example you could modify to your liking.

It gives my wife and I just the info we care about to gear up to go dog walking. (Plus a little more....)


See it in glorious action at http://robcranfill.net/weather/Crandard/

Sorry, I haven't got round to packaging it in the proper way WeeWX wants, so you'd have to put the files in the right place... or if anyone expresses a desire, I could figure out how to do the packaging.

 /r

Rob Cranfill

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Dec 21, 2020, 9:29:18 AM12/21/20
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Wow. I sent the previous message, did a little more work on the code, and then... my server crashed, with massive disk errors. So you can still look at that "live" page, but it stopped updating about 15 minutes ago. 

I guess I know what I'm doing all tomorrow, now..... :-(

Rob Cranfill

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Dec 21, 2020, 9:55:13 PM12/21/20
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(Sorry to hog the conversation, and I'm sure no-one cares, but just in case anyone does, the above website is back online. After a quick 'chkdsk', all was well!)
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