Home Assistant and CarPlay with the Pi Touch Display 2

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2024-11-08 16:30:03

After a decade, Raspberry Pi finally upgraded their official Touch Display from 480p to 720p, while keeping the price and overall aesthetic the same.

I've had early access to the Touch Display 2, and have been testing it in a variety of scenarios. Generally, Linux touchscreen support isn't wonderful. And Pi OS, being a fairly customized UI focused on simple use cases, is not quite to a usable state if you go touchscreen-only, considering I had trouble getting the onscreen keyboard to work in Chromium half the time, and it would overlay things I was typing even in fully-supported apps like Terminal.

But that software can and will be improved. I've had two projects on the backburner for some time, and once I received the Touch Display 2, I thought it was finally time to give them a go. I wanted to see how well these ideas would work out on the Pi 5:

I have almost everything for the first project done, and documented in my Raspberry Pi Kiosk project on GitHub. I'm still working on the CarPlay setup, but the software side is already pretty solid—I'll get to where I'm at later in this post.

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