Using the Kindle Fire for HA touchscreen

[jwilson56]

I recently purchased a Kindle Fire (refurb for $169) and decided to try and use it for my Home Automation Now Playing project. I tried a few different RDP apps that run on the Android OS based tablet. I found one that works great and now I can use my Now Playing on this tablet. The Kindle Fire has a bright and very responsive 7" display which seems like a nice size for home automation needs.


There are a few free RDP apps that work with the Kindle Fire. In my opinion this RDP app works the best (better single tap for mouse actions)


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tux.client&amp;hl=en<br />

So if you have a Kindle Fire you might try this yourself.<br />

Here is a screenshot of the Kindle Fire with a new skin I created for it.</p>


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[jdk972003]

So if i say had 6 KFin a house and wanted to each be able to independently operate...would I need to create vm's for each tablet to remote into?

 

[jwilson56]

Well RDP needs a PC running your app for each session so you would need multiple logins. This is not for that type of setup. I have PC based touchscreens for most of my house and use the Kindle Fire as a portable tablet when I want. Of coarse if you are using HSTouch then you could run the client directly on the Kindle Fire and not use RDP at all. Some day I might be able to do that but for now Homeseer does not support the J River Media Center multizone database/player. Elve is promising an Android client down the road as well.

 

[video321]

So if i say had 6 KFin a house and wanted to each be able to independently operate...would I need to create vm's for each tablet to remote into?

If you had Windows Server you wouldn't need to use a VM at all, just RDP set to launch the single application on connect. Each client would get their own session.