Hi,
I'm running my HS3 Pro system on the Raspberry pi for several years without much problems. Also used the HSTouch app on my iPhone for years on a row.
Now I like to start designing my own screens for a Samsung tablet that is laying around and use it as a wall control centre for the whole family. So I already tried the tablet with the default HStouch app and that works fine. Only thing is that only the default start screen of the app is user friendly, with some great graphics. But when going in the detail pages it is only text based and not so WAF and family friendly because of to many options showed. So it would be great to design my own pages.
But where to store / run these pages? As far as I now understand, the HS3Touch designer has to run on Windows to be able to design the pages. Ok Clear, I can do that on an laptop which lays around.
But than when the pages are ready do I still need the laptop or can I have them on my Raspberry pi?
Or do I still need a windows pc running 24/7 holding both the designer and the created files?
This part is not very clear to me. And before starting to build I want to think of a way to server the pages. The reason using the Rpi is that it is cheap, small, not using much energy and can be used headless. I used to have a Macmini in the past running a VM with Windows and HS2 butt hat used to much energy, very expensive and running 24/7 did not help extending the lifetime of the hard-disk which started to give problems after some years in use.
1. So if possible I would prefer to have everything on a Rasberry Pi (which now is a RPi3 B+). Is that possible? And how to get that running?
2. Or do I need a pc running Windows to serve it?
3. Any experience using tiny cheap fanless pc for this like "Wintel" or any others which are available for less than $100 ? And are the ones offered on Aliexpress worth buying?
Any advice / discussion / best practises / share your devices / would be great to get this any clearer. Thanks.
I'm running my HS3 Pro system on the Raspberry pi for several years without much problems. Also used the HSTouch app on my iPhone for years on a row.
Now I like to start designing my own screens for a Samsung tablet that is laying around and use it as a wall control centre for the whole family. So I already tried the tablet with the default HStouch app and that works fine. Only thing is that only the default start screen of the app is user friendly, with some great graphics. But when going in the detail pages it is only text based and not so WAF and family friendly because of to many options showed. So it would be great to design my own pages.
But where to store / run these pages? As far as I now understand, the HS3Touch designer has to run on Windows to be able to design the pages. Ok Clear, I can do that on an laptop which lays around.
But than when the pages are ready do I still need the laptop or can I have them on my Raspberry pi?
Or do I still need a windows pc running 24/7 holding both the designer and the created files?
This part is not very clear to me. And before starting to build I want to think of a way to server the pages. The reason using the Rpi is that it is cheap, small, not using much energy and can be used headless. I used to have a Macmini in the past running a VM with Windows and HS2 butt hat used to much energy, very expensive and running 24/7 did not help extending the lifetime of the hard-disk which started to give problems after some years in use.
1. So if possible I would prefer to have everything on a Rasberry Pi (which now is a RPi3 B+). Is that possible? And how to get that running?
2. Or do I need a pc running Windows to serve it?
3. Any experience using tiny cheap fanless pc for this like "Wintel" or any others which are available for less than $100 ? And are the ones offered on Aliexpress worth buying?
Any advice / discussion / best practises / share your devices / would be great to get this any clearer. Thanks.
Now I (finally) understand how it goes it will be fun to start digging in and create some nice screens. Can I also use my own xml naming for the design? So instead of default.xml use tablet-livingroom.xml ?
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