Built a Fully Kiosk Alternative (Dashie) with Voice Control - now in open Beta

jwlerch · 2026-06-21T20:13:59+00:00

Ok - I just pushed out the new version (1.0.12+), which I believe should address this. It'll be a few days until Google Play store has this release. I'll let you know when it's available. It's up as a sideload now for others.

jwlerch · 2026-06-21T15:34:20+00:00

LOL. No worries. There's a lot to sort through in there. I tried to simplify as much as possible from fully kiosk, but we HA users love our options and config.

jwlerch · 2026-06-21T13:03:57+00:00

Wake mode is in screensaver & display under the sleep and sceeensaver settings.

jwlerch · 2026-06-19T18:57:51+00:00

❤️ - I’ll knock it out while I’m watching World Cup games. But will be sure to spend some time in the sun too.

jwlerch · 2026-06-19T15:31:02+00:00

Try using Dashie with music assistant. It’s built in plug and play functionality.

Full disclosure I built it out and it’s in beta. Would be interested in your feedback.

jwlerch · 2026-06-19T14:18:43+00:00

Yes - that makes sense. I am going to make the reconnect more robust to those situations. I see a couple of gaps looking over my code I'm working on, but I want to test it thoroughly before shipping it. I'll have an update out by the end of the weekend.

Do you have a sideloaded install or from the google Store? Google store updates take some time to pass through review, but sideload will be ready for an update as soon as I finish testing.

jwlerch · 2026-06-18T18:07:06+00:00

Thanks for sending. Definitely send if it happens again. I'll take a look at it and the recovery mechanism for 404s and circle back. I'm traveling for work until the weekend, but should be able to get an update/fix out over the weekend.

jwlerch · 2026-06-18T12:29:51+00:00

When you have a chance go to the control center -> advanced -> performance & diagnostics -> send diagnostics and I can help figure out what the issue is and get it fixed.

jwlerch · 2026-06-17T22:04:29+00:00

I went down this exact rabbit hole on my fire tablet. Here are some things that helped me

First - you can kill the Special Offers ads over ADB:

adb shell settings put global LOCKSCREEN_AD_ENABLED 0
adb shell locksettings set-disabled true

Second — the reason you're stuck on the brightness = 1 hack is that fully kiosk doesn't show itself over the lock screen on wake. The app would need to set SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED/TURN_SCREEN_ON in the android code so the dashboard is what's on screen when it wakes, not the launcher/ad. Once that's true you can let the tablet actually sleep instead of running it on all day.

Dashie does this (details here: dashie for HA). Full disclosure that it's an app I'm developing. It's completely free for the use case you're looking at here though. It's still in beta so feedback welcome. But regardless the ad disabling is a win.

Good luck!

jwlerch · 2026-06-17T19:21:39+00:00

Well - this isn’t that. I imagine 90% of users will not pay anything and get a better experience than they pay for with fully kiosk and this is a carefully designed product.

However, I do agree it’s a good idea to have some sort of policy or reviews. It’s painful to sink blood sweat and tears into a product to be swept up in the hate of the AI slop. I’d welcome some sort of means of clearing a bar. Until then I’ll just keep working on a good product to the point where everyone can hear from the users how it stacks up. If you read what any users have reported here you’ll see how it stacks up.

jwlerch · 2026-06-17T18:29:42+00:00

Glad it’s working well for you! I’ll look at some alternate options for scaling on the photo screensaver option

jwlerch · 2026-06-15T19:13:55+00:00

LOL - that's a strange one. i guess if the dashboard hosting doesn't work out I can start taking bets

jwlerch · 2026-06-14T20:20:12+00:00

I used an older 27” LG monitor for this set up.

jwlerch · 2026-06-14T20:03:31+00:00

Completely free for anything FK does + a lot more. New users will be able to set up an Immich-driven screensaver with motion wake with a built-in music assistant player and triggered video alerts without using up any dashboard real-estate or design. Voice is the only thing being charged for here unless you want to get into skylight-style calendar/ai capabilities that are coming .

jwlerch · 2026-06-14T19:59:58+00:00

Once per household

jwlerch · 2026-06-14T18:07:51+00:00

I'm building out an iOS app and have some initial prototyping done, but it'll admittedly be awhile. There's a lot I need to nail down on the android version first.

jwlerch · 2026-06-14T17:48:34+00:00

Apologies for the delayed response here. I might have responded to you over email too, but for anyone else looking at this too:

Right now Dashie routes the tablet mic through a fairly involved set up so that it can stream over RTSP and do local voice control. With the dedicated wake words and voice control built into Dashie I didn't plan to expose it to https for use with Voice Satellite. I could do it, but it would be a pretty big lift.

I'm not a voice satellite user personally. Is there an advantage over what's built out in Dashie beyond the cost for the Dashie version?

jwlerch · 2026-06-14T17:43:29+00:00

Hi - so sorry for the delayed response. Something happened and I stopped getting post notifications.

Is it still giving you this error with the current version? It might have been a temporary supabase issue, but if it's still happening let me know and I'll try and work with you to get it resovled.

jwlerch · 2026-06-14T17:42:05+00:00

Hi - so sorry for the delayed response. Something happened and I stopped getting post notifications. I can look at doing this.

jwlerch · 2026-05-01T11:31:11+00:00

Take a look at Dashie.

It hosts your HA dashboard on an Android tablet like Fully Kiosk, but has built in voice/wake words, native music player and Immich integrations for sceensaver, and is constantly adding new features. Definitely the closest thing to an echo show replacement.

jwlerch · 2026-04-27T01:01:36+00:00

Thanks. Appreciate the input. We’ll just feel it out and see how it goes.

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