Skylight calender

[nicholab]

Hi my wife wants  us to get a Skylight Digital Calendar is it any good and why is it better than other options?

[sideone]

£300 to display a Google calendar?

[dhicks]

2 hours ago, sideone said:

£300 to display a Google calendar?

 

Other options I can think of:

• A Raspberry Pi mounted on the back of a small touch screen. Hardware cost probably not actually that different. You can set up / configure / write the software however you want, but it does mean you've got to spend time / effort on it.
• A full-flip laptop / Chromebook in "tent" mode. Might be free / cheaper if you get a pre-used one. If a Chromebook, then you'd need to be able to set it to act as a kiosk, which requires (I think) a Google Workspace setup and an appropriate license for the device. Might be useful if you want to look at how to do ChromeOS kiosk devices, might be a bit much otherwise. If you can get a device you can install Linux on (some Chromebooks, possibly) you can configure a kiosk setup yourself, although again if you've not done that sort of thing before you'll need to spend some time figuring it out.

[jthompson]

No experience with it, but I'm someone who bought a Pebble watch, so my initial thought is that it'll work nicely up until it doesn't (hardware support ends, company/app gets bought out or goes bust).

 

If it were me, I'd be looking to recereate the core functionality using a combination of Google Calendar, Google Tasks and Google Keep. For the communal display, a budget Android tablet (or several) to surface those apps. Software support is less of a worry and the hardware can be swapped out or used for something else.

[NegativeKillDeath]

Its a technical solution to the calendar hanging on the fridge of old. Except the tech solution is actually personal devices with synced calendars. 

[sideone]

13 minutes ago, NegativeKillDeath said:

Except the tech solution is actually personal devices with synced calendars

That's what we do, and it works well.

[RobFuller]

I've been looking at one of these hardware wise, should tick some DIY options with PoE 😎 https://avpartsmaster.co.uk/interactive-solutions/iiyama-101-prolite-tw1023asc-b2p-touch-panel