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r/homeassistant: rooting a $50 photo frame into a smart-home touch screen
The repo is a practical guide to reclaiming locked-down gadgets.
Developer Wes Bos shared how he rooted inexpensive Android photo frames from Amazon, installed a modern browser and turned them into Home Assistant dashboards, with scripts and notes on GitHub. Commenters asked whether the frames' old Android 6 is a security concern compared with an ESP32-based display.
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Rooting (Android)
After exploring these cheap photo frames can make a nice touch screen display, the technique he used is Rooting (Android).
Gaining privileged control over an Android device, similar to administrator access on Linux, since Android runs on a modified Linux kernel.
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