![]() Obviously it can not go all the way down to sleep mode as it is constantly watching the camera but during testing my battery lasts on average 2 times longer now on 3 different devices. Instead, Yakk is letting Android lock the screen and also let the device enter a lower power state. Also, the screen wasn't even turned off but simply dimmed draining the battery very fast. At least for my use case it really is and it's significantly slower than the HA mobile app.Unfortunately, I had very little luck with open source and free alternatives as they were often unstable and bloated with many non functional features and bugs. I looked at available solutions and while FullyKIOSK is a really nice app it is an overkill in a home environment. The main reason I wrote this app is that I wanted a simple and lightweight way to wake the screen on motion detect without all the compromises. Yakk is simply running in the background and it takes care of turning the screen on when motion is detected. ![]() Also, this has the added benefit of having out of the box sensor support for everything that's exposed by the HA mobile app without any extra setup. The HA mobile app is doing a way better job at displaying the dashboards than trying to embed home assistant into a foreign app. ![]() In my case I simply use the HomeAssistant mobile app to display my dashboards. ![]() How is this different from other apps you might ask? First, it is only a background app and does not display the actual content. I've created this little app for my wall-mounted tablets to wake the screen on motion detect. ![]()
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