Providing market intelligence for more than 35 years

Smart Home

Using the Kindle Fire as a Home Automation Touchscreen

The Kindle Fire uses the same in-pane switching as the iPad, a 1024x600, which is a large enough screen for most home automations system. The device is heavy for its size at 14.6oz, and having dual-core CPUs clocked at 1GHz, the CPU is speedy enough for most applications. Most home automation plug-ins store very little content locally, so 8GB of storage is more than adequate and support for all current Wi-Fi standards means it’ll connect to virtually anything. The default Android project for HSTouch comes pre-configured for a screen size of 480x800, which leaves a lot of blank screen space.

Anyone who knows or uses HSTouch, understands that you have to use the HSTouch Designer application to either modify the supplied projects or create your own. There could be some potential fundamental layout changes when wall-mounting the Fire, such as font styles, as Android only has 3: Droid Serif, Droid Sans and Droid Sans Mono.

As for home automation wall-mountable tablets, there are cheaper tablets out there, but not of the Fire quality.

More from

October 30, 2022

In-Person Future of Video Conference to Explore Latest Industry Trends

Parks Associates will host the fifth annual Future of Video: OTT, Pay TV, and Digital Media Decem...

Read More

September 19, 2022

The Advantages of OTT Bundling - Insights from Verimatrix

Parks Associates’ Future of Video: OTT, PayTV, and Digital Media continues on Thursday, September...

Read More

July 31, 2022

Parks Associates Welcomes MediaKind as 2022 Future of Video Sponsor

Parks Associates’ Future of Video: OTT, Pay TV, and Digital Media is excited to announce MediaKin...

Read More
Phone:
972-490-1113
Mailing Address:
Parks Associates 5080 Spectrum Drive, Suite 1000W Addison, TX 75001 USA
Expertise
Smart Home: Management and Safety Consumer Electronics Connected Health and Wellness Broadband Small-to-medium Business (SMB) Connected Health
Services
Research Services: Custom and Consulting Research Projects Streaming Video Tracker Security Tracker Smart Home Tracker
Events
CONNECTIONS™ CONNECTIONS™ Summit/CES Smart Energy Summit Connected Health Summit Future Of Video Smart Spaces Upcoming Industry Events
Resources
Press Releases Analyst Blog Parks in the News Connected Consumer Podcast 
About Us
Overview Team Contact Us
Store
View Your Cart

Follow Us to stay informed

© 2023-2024 Parks Associates. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy

Design & Developed By Agency Partner Interactive