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I’m building a home automation system from scratch for my house. I’d like a media-rich platform to base it off, because the software will also feature whole-house audio (both voice assistant and music). Is OSMC a good platform for me to use?

  • I’ll be running the interface on a RPi3 with 7" touchscreen
  • I’m writing most of the modules in Python 3 (haven’t decided on the view layer yet)
  • I’d like to avoid a browser-based system
  • Environment will be containerized with Docker so I can push updates from balenaCloud, and add additional screens in bedrooms as some point

Thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Paul

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Hi Paul,

OSMC will meet the ‘media rich’ requirements, and shouldn’t get in the way for the rest of things. Ideally, you’d want to use the official touchscreen for the best support. Other touch screens may have more limited support (likely just a framebuffer without X11 which is quite bulky).

Sam