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How would you use a few iPads in your homelab? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Khisanthax@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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For Christmas I'll probably upgrade the kids and wife's iPads and in return I'll have a few iPads hanging around. I was curious how I could use these in my home network/homelab environment. Cli monitors? Grafana monitors? Spice/vnc monitors?

If you use, or have good ideas on how to incorporate three iPads I'd like to hear your creativity!

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[–] CucumberError@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We have 3 of them, mounted to the wall, for home automation stuff. Each room has a Zigbee button at the doorway etc, and then an iPad in the hallways etc for more fine control via Home Assistant.

[–] Khisanthax@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

three on one well, or in three separate rooms? What's the zigbee button at the doorway for? is that for the ipad or just an automation?

[–] CucumberError@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Each room has a 4 button Hue Zigbee button: Ceiling lights on/off, brightness up, brightness down, then the Hue button turns on/off bedside lights, floor lamps etc.

The three iPads are all in different places: main entrance way/downstairs hallway, top of the stairs/upstairs hallway, in the walk in closet of the master bedroom.

Each iPad has a default screen with the lights in the area around it, while also able to change to other views in HA so control heating, robot vacuums etc.