We are moving to a larger house shortly to accomodate my 82 year old father, moving in with us. I would like to set up some sort of wall mounted touch screen display that is larger than tablet size, with the family Google calendar displayed on it. What kind of setup would you all recommend for something like this? Would a raspberry Pi be the ideal choice or a chrome box? I don't need full PC capability only to display the calendar and navigate between individual days and the month. This is to help my father remember appointments (and us), so we don't miss them. He is fairly tech savvy having owned an electronics manufacturing company most of his life, but I would like to keep it simple. We are transitioning him to Google Fi and a Pixel phone, from apple and it would help to have the calendar use the same interface. Only real requirements on the driving device is that it have wifi and be able to run some OS that can display the calendar. Would something like this be what you would recommend? I was thinking one of these for the monitor or do you have a better suggestion? Thanks for your help.
Touchscreen Wall Google Calendar?
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Addendum: I did find this which claims to have Win 11Pro installed for $160, which would be quite the deal. The real choice is the monitor, which I would like the biggest possible. He is 82 after all and has old eyes, even though he has had them corrected.
You could probably do Chrome OS on a Rapberry Pi and get away with it on as large of a TV as required to make things work.
My dad bought himself something like https://www.amazon.com/Cozyla-Calendar-Digital-Notepad-Electronic/dp/B0DHCF53R6 and is pretty happy with it in his kitchen. It's a little more expensive though.
My dad bought himself something like https://www.amazon.com/Cozyla-Calendar-Digital-Notepad-Electronic/dp/B0DHCF53R6 and is pretty happy with it in his kitchen. It's a little more expensive though.
The Skylight device works pretty well and doesn't need any tinkering. You can likely do it cheaper on your own, but it won't look as good as what is basically a tablet in a nice picture frame.
https://myskylight.com/products/skylight-calendar/
https://myskylight.com/products/skylight-calendar/
The biggest problem with ours has been the kitten playing with the power cord and unplugging it. I need to get some racetrack to stop it dangling down as an easy target.
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depending on how much you want to build/tinker have you looked at https://magicmirror.builders/ ?
Current plan is to see if we can get one of the surplus Chrome Boxes, from my wife's school, and try that.
Just got it, but haven't had a chance to put it on the wall and try it out. I will update when I do.