Mine’s been sitting in a drawer for months. What do you all use yours for? Trying to find a second life for it.
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- hexagonwin@lemmy.todayEnglish12 hours
how old? if its ios 13+ you can install reynard browser which is a full gecko firefox port including addons support.
- Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish13 hours
My old iPhone sits in my kitchen cupboard, connected to a little amp, and I use it for playing music - Streaming, YT, online radio etc. I’ve also got a (flac file compatible) mp3 player for when I know what I want to listen to…
- 16 hours
Dunno if you can do this with ipads, but I’ve been (idly) considering using old phones to create an Alfred camera system
Probably not…but it’s a fun idea.
- Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish20 hours
Came here to say this I have an old iPad sitting in my kitchen with HA in kiosk mode. Uninstalled as much as I could and it just sits there with a clock if I press the screen I can see fun stats like speedtest, crowdsec, pihole, or the forcast for the next few days or even what my thermostat says the indoor temperature is.
2 days- Convert it to a kitchen recipe display device and retrieve recipes off of your server.
- Home monitoring panel
- Video/Photo frame
- e-reader
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish14 hours
what do you use for recipes? plain files? grocy? something else?
About 25-30 years ago, I converted the dining room of my house into a rather large food pantry. It’s just me, so I have little use for a dining room. So I use grocy & barcode buddy to track stock. When I bring in food stock it gets scanned in. When I consume food stock, it gets scanned out. I have an old Android tablet for the display and I have a hand scanner I bought off Amazon for $20. Actually works pretty well, and you can track stock levels. So if you are at the store, and there is a great sale on 50 lb sacks of flour, you can check stock and make a decision from there.
For recipes, I’ve been using CookTrace and I really like it. Mealie and CookTrace are pretty similar in a side by side comparison. I can bring recipes up on the Android tablet from the kitchen.
- foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
iPadOS has really a really good music production ecosystem. I bought Loopy Pro and 3D printed a mount for my MIDI keyboard. It’s now a dedicated MIDI controller / looping interface.
- Corvus Cornix@piefed.socialEnglish2 days
Like others here, I use mine as a sort of “kiosk” for smart home stuff by using Guided Access to lock it to a single app. If you have a Mac you could also put it into real single-app mode via Apple Configurator policies, but it’s more time-consuming to set up and if the app stops working there’s no way to fix it short of restarting the entire iPad (whereas you can end Guided Access, restart the app, and start Guided Access again).
- Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish20 hours
Huh if I ever get around to it I will look up guided access to lock it to my HA kiosk. Hell I will forget by the time I hit submit I need to stretch my legs and see about it now.
- curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish2 days
Previously I used it as a home assistant panel, but everything is so automated no one ever touched it (except the kids, annoying the ever loving crap out of mom).
Now its magicmirror as a calendar display
