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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Mooisjken on 2025-07-31 12:00:27+00:00.
Recently seeing all these posts on wall tablets coming by, with each time the same suggestions: Samsung and Lenovo second hand provide the best price/quality ratio.
But why have a capable tablet at all, when most of us have more than enough computational power in our racks? Are there no technologies to connect a "dump touchscreen" in our living room to our servers in the basement?
Did some quick research and seems like HDBaseT might be onto something (which seems to be HDMI, ethernet, usb all via 1 UTP cable) , but curious whether someone has implemented this in real live, or any other similar solutions.
To me this sounds more future proof, as our dashboards keep getting more complex: a dumb screen would not be impacted by higher computational requirements, while a tablet would.
Shoot!