So I finally had to break down and get a new tablet. Usually I buy a refurbished one that is a couple years old and cheap. After a while it gets a little slower and then either the wife ends up with it or the mother in law. It's a cheap way to stretch them out. Anyway that has worked good so far but at a certain point the batteries will quit holding a charge no matter what happens. The one I have used for quite a while was at that point, by the time it was off the charger and not really active I could put it in the car and go somewhere then pull it out to use it and it would die before I could even pull an application up.
Anyway it still works ok when it is plugged in so I wanted to find a use for it. I know some people are now using them with an amp to replace their vehicle stereo but that is a LOT of work and I would rather not go through cutting up the dash to make it fit. I have seen where a person used an old tablet for their home automation controller but I don't think that will be very useful at this point. After racking my brains a bit and searching I came across something that would work perfectly, I am going to use it as a picture frame and a media player.
Not too long ago I picked up a little bluetooth adapter so that my wife can listen to some music around the house through a stereo that she has probably had for 15 years now. It works fine so I figured why not give her a little something to play with. Then on the old tablet I setup Syncthing and made a folder that I can drop stuff in to load pictures on to the tablet wirelessly. After that I grabbed Fotoo and set it up to play pictures from the folder Syncthing is setup to load the pictures in to. Add in Plex and connect it to the bluetooth adapter and she can play music whenever she wants. I think it will work as a nice little media player and picture frame.
I did drop something together for those who would like to see what it kinda looks like. The camera's auto focus is a little weird since it is recording another screen but it shows what it looks like for the most part.
If someone wants to set something like this up on their own but is confused on how to do something let me know and I will help you out.
Anyway it still works ok when it is plugged in so I wanted to find a use for it. I know some people are now using them with an amp to replace their vehicle stereo but that is a LOT of work and I would rather not go through cutting up the dash to make it fit. I have seen where a person used an old tablet for their home automation controller but I don't think that will be very useful at this point. After racking my brains a bit and searching I came across something that would work perfectly, I am going to use it as a picture frame and a media player.
Not too long ago I picked up a little bluetooth adapter so that my wife can listen to some music around the house through a stereo that she has probably had for 15 years now. It works fine so I figured why not give her a little something to play with. Then on the old tablet I setup Syncthing and made a folder that I can drop stuff in to load pictures on to the tablet wirelessly. After that I grabbed Fotoo and set it up to play pictures from the folder Syncthing is setup to load the pictures in to. Add in Plex and connect it to the bluetooth adapter and she can play music whenever she wants. I think it will work as a nice little media player and picture frame.
I did drop something together for those who would like to see what it kinda looks like. The camera's auto focus is a little weird since it is recording another screen but it shows what it looks like for the most part.
If someone wants to set something like this up on their own but is confused on how to do something let me know and I will help you out.
