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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how old? if its ios 13+ you can install reynard browser which is a full gecko firefox port including addons support.
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…
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.
Why Apple hasn’t mad the iPad mini a CarPlay screen is beyond me. You can do it with an android tablet but not an iPad.
Hot take, but If it’s old and/or no longer useful to you, then I would consider selling or trading it in. Apple products hold value better than a lot of other electronics in the same category and you might as well just take the cash and put it towards other homelab upgrades
HomeAssistant dash
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.
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.
- Convert it to a kitchen recipe display device and retrieve recipes off of your server.
- Home monitoring panel
- Video/Photo frame
- e-reader
what do you use for recipes? plain files? grocy? something else?
I use mine as a home assistant dashboard.
My 6th gen iPad is the only Apple product I own. It’s also the only device that refuses to connect to my WiFi. I was going to make it a wall panel, but it’s shit.
My wife bought the $100 digital wall calendar from KMart and it hooked up to my CalDav server. I was surprised that it showed zero dark patterns. No vendor lock-in. No ads. No spying.
Client screen for Air Manager.
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).
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.
I don’t have an iPad mini so I can’t help you
Use it as an e-reader for Calibre library?
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
