On 2019-10-11, Chris Green  wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>>
>> > ... and I'm pretty much against a mobile phone interface, it's too
>> > small for my (gently) fading eyesight and I don't get on well with on
>> > screen keyboards.  I've actually just changed back from a smartphone
>> > to a feature phone with real buttons for this very reason.
>> >
>>
>> Oh, well the backend would still work, but you would need to find
>> another UI to drive it.
>>
> Exactly, it's the UI that is my problem.
>
>
>> I dont have a huge problem using a smartphone as the text is
>> deliberately large
>>
> We don't tend to have phones at hand all the time at home because
> there's no mobile coverage here so they're not terribly useful. So I'd
> really prefer something permanently by the Pi/Audio system.  There are
> also several users so a single dedicated system would be handy.
>
> I guess a tablet (e.g. 7" screen) might work and could be kept plugged
> in and charged next to the Pi.  We have some old[ish] 7" tablets,
> Android 4.x sort of vintage.

I find using voice is very convenient (but not a 100% hit rate, so
still nice to have other means like phone control as a backup).

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