IpadOS Screen Saver ?
For using iPads as wall mounted controllers for HA, surveillance and other tasks... A screen saver that includes cameras and weather would be quite useful.
Ideally configurable. So maybe a few different layouts (4 quadrants, 3 blocks across the top with a 1/5 ribbon across the bottom, 2 blocks across top with 1/3 ribbon across bottom, etc.) with each of the spaces configurable. So in the latter maybe a fixed cam, rotating cams, another fixed cam across the top with weather in the lower 1/5 ribbon. Or maybe 1 space has info from Control 4 (or Homekit or Savant or ...) on what media is playing.
Ideally configurable. So maybe a few different layouts (4 quadrants, 3 blocks across the top with a 1/5 ribbon across the bottom, 2 blocks across top with 1/3 ribbon across bottom, etc.) with each of the spaces configurable. So in the latter maybe a fixed cam, rotating cams, another fixed cam across the top with weather in the lower 1/5 ribbon. Or maybe 1 space has info from Control 4 (or Homekit or Savant or ...) on what media is playing.
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There is no such thing exactly as a screensaver on iOS - the iPad will simply display whatever app is currently open, until the configured timeout is reached at which point it will go to sleep. So all you can really do is turn off the sleep timeout (assuming the iPad has constant power so that it doesn't quickly run out of battery) and open whatever app you want to display. The closest to what you are describing would be to open SecuritySpy and set it off in multiplex mode, displaying a rotating grid of cameras.
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Thanks Ben. I think I knew that about the screensaver (or should have if I'd thought for a second) but it totally fluffed out of my head :-)
That solution provides the cams but not the other elements.
Another needed bit is an easy/clean one-finger way of getting to C4.
This is probably more of a 3rd party developer deal but since SS is the key element thought I'd bring it up here. Twitch appears to have been doing something remotely similar a couple of years ago.
