How to build a Home Assistant controller *and* a CarPlay touchscreen with the new Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 (FULL video, first time on X!)

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@home_assistant @Raspberry_Pi For the tl;dw :)

@home_assistant @Raspberry_Pi Would also love a video on an Amazon Alexa alternative 👍

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@home_assistant @Raspberry_Pi I want to build.. The Wife is still complaining about me not allowing alexa in our house.. She will likely win

@home_assistant @Raspberry_Pi I'm really interested in power draw, maybe at 20% and 100% brightness. Also, which Pi would you suggest for your kiosk script + HA dashboard? I'm testing HA in Safari on a very old iPad and it is surprisingly unusable.

@home_assistant @Raspberry_Pi Power draw was between 2-3W by my eye for the short time I tested that, but I didn't have it hooked up to my power monitor for too long, so didn't get into detailed testing there. Pi 5 uses 3-4W idle, so minimum you're looking at 6W or so for the whole thing with the display on.

@home_assistant @Raspberry_Pi Android Auto would be great, a lot of cheap android head units on the market but most of them lack good software

@home_assistant @Raspberry_Pi if you edit /boot/config.txt dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d lcd_rotate=2 this works for my pi4 running raspberry pi os lite, using the old touch screen, this flips the display.

@home_assistant @Raspberry_Pi Btw you can squeeze more performance out by using QT Kiosk Browser :) It's based on the CEF (Chromium) and has a nice builtin virtual keyboard.