I am looking for a solution to turn a Fire Tablet - temporarily - into a pseudo kiosk. I want to be able to view the screen but in a display-only mode, with the touch portion of the screen disabled.
In case you are wondering why, the plan is for the Fire Tablet to become a simple Time/Day/Date/Calendar event display for an elderly person with dementia.
This can be accomplished by using a kiosk app, a web browser app that can go full-screen, and some other app that disables other Fire/Android keys (like the home and back buttons). This can get a bit complicated finding these lockdown apps that work well (there are plenty of them, but you see many complaints about them).
Or, you simply put a piece of glass in front of the Fire Tablet. Bingo! Touch screen is disabled.
I was thinking I could make a custom picture frame where the Fire slides in from the side and is protected behind glass.
But even more ideal, would be a standard Fire Tablet "book cover" type protective case like many of us have, but with the front of the case being clear. So it becomes "you can see it, but you can't touch the screen".
Has anyone run into such a case for sale?
I understand that I would have to deal with issues like power failures and restarting the web browser to the correct URL. But leaving the thing plugged in all the time you'd be somewhat protected from power failures because the internal battery would take over. I'd also have to figure out how to configure the Fire so the screen never sleeps or dims.
The way to create the Time/Day/Date/Calendar display with by using
https://dakboard.com/site You can create custom displays here, the simple one I would be needing can be accomplished with the free version of DakBoard.
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