Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

What to do with an old iPad

odb.ar

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 121 posts

Re: What to do with an old iPad

#101

Post by op00to »

heavyset_go wrote: post #99
Nextgrid wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic) Does your ISP have a problem when your computer/phone/etc does a cloud backup? Or when you torrent? Because both of those will max out your upload bandwidth much more than hosting a static website. I think the concerns about ISPs complaining are extremely overblown on HN, but happy to be proven w…

> I think the concerns about ISPs complaining are extremely overblown on HN, but happy to be proven wrong. Look at your agreement with your ISP. They typically segment the market into consumer/business plans where running a server requires a business plan versus a consumer plan.

I have fiber in the east coast of the US with a national provider. They don’t care about uploading, at least up to 10-15 TB/month.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

#102

Post by seriocomic »

Funny how some things you were thinking about before you log-on for the morning suddenly become front-and-centre for you.

I have an old original iPad wall mounted showing an AppDaemon dashboard from my HomeAssistant. I wish the old Safari could handle a standard dashboard but alas. I even had to add a specific certificate to enable Safari to access and show things such as HTTPS feeds from my cameras.

Looking at the comments, there doesn't appear to be anyone who has solved this issue :(

Re: What to do with an old iPad

#103

Post by hn92726819 »

SoftTalker wrote: post #94
hn92726819 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of a nasty solution, but if you have a smart plug, you could plug the iPad into it and have HAS toggle power for an hour a day (or whatever time). That way it's as if you unplugged the iPad yourself for a period.

How does unplugging the charger for an hour improve the situation? Does it reset the charging logic back into "high charge" mode or something? Would not even need a smart plug for that, just a simple mechanical timer would do it.

I don't know if it will. I actually have never even heard of this bug before, but I would assume that it gets fixed somehow and I imagine it involves unplugging it and plugging it in again.

I just suggested a smart plug because the original commenter said it was for HomeAssistant, which is really good at scripting stuff like this (if smart plug detects wattage below X, assume ipad is bugged and cut power and return it after n duration, for example). A mechanical timer might also work.

Also, I just bought 11 smart plugs so everything is starting to look like a nail :)

Re: What to do with an old iPad

#104

Post by twinspop »

hn92726819 wrote: post #50
quotemstr wrote: post #33

I've tried to use an old iPad as a wall-mounted control panel. The device has continuous power but will occasionally run down its battery anyway, especially when displaying the Home Assistant app. Not consistently reproducible and annoying, but makes the device a poor match for what I want to do with it. It's a shame because it could have had a good, long post-retirement career in this role if it could only run at pe…

Kind of a nasty solution, but if you have a smart plug, you could plug the iPad into it and have HAS toggle power for an hour a day (or whatever time). That way it's as if you unplugged the iPad yourself for a period.

This is exactly what i do with an older iPad. It’s running HASS. The smart switch* is turned off when charge is over 80%, and on when charge drops below 30%. It’s been like this for 4 years. No issues. And I’ve been logging every on/off cycle. Some day I’ll check to see how it’s changed over the years.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

#105

Post by spectre3d »

Tade0 wrote: post #74
nopelynopington wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you're using a low power adapter. I have a few ipad2 that the kids use for things. Even if they have 1% and we plug them in they can be used while they charge. I'd also suggest lowering the brightness slightly, can make a huge difference to battery drain

Over a decade ago it was common for tablets of any kind to not be able to hold a charge while plugged in when pushed to their limits.

Perhaps with some tablets, but the iPad 2 and first gen shipped with an adapter (20W?) that didn’t allow that to happen, in my experience.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

#106

Post by smt88 »

lucb1e wrote: post #42
pdntspa wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wait, top billings on HN brings in 2 hits/sec of traffic? That is an unbelievably low number considering how many sites fall over under that pressure

Exactly. I think this shows two things quite nicely: - Very few sites need to cope with more than a handful of hits per second. A regular DSL connection and desktop PC can host the vast majority of them; you don't need clouds if you don't want them. (Even under variable load: if you need 80% of the systems more than 40% of the time, scaling down is probably not worth the cloud premium) - If a site can't handle HN, th…

WordPress is a static host for the vast majority of users. The generation time is irrelevant. Almost by default, it will just cache the rendered page and always serve from the cache.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

#108

Post by wodenokoto »

I have an iPad going strong-ish for over a decade now.

There’s a lot of stuff you can’t do, but it runs VLC and I can connect to iTunes and move files.

The Retina display is still gorgeous and it can connect to my AirPods (although _they_ really don’t like it)

I watch TV-series on it while on the treadmill in my gym. I’ve considered getting a new one, but it just seems like a lot of money for something that isn’t broken.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

#110

Post by nopelynopington »

Tade0 wrote: post #74
nopelynopington wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you're using a low power adapter. I have a few ipad2 that the kids use for things. Even if they have 1% and we plug them in they can be used while they charge. I'd also suggest lowering the brightness slightly, can make a huge difference to battery drain

Over a decade ago it was common for tablets of any kind to not be able to hold a charge while plugged in when pushed to their limits.

These iPads I'm using are ipad2, well over a decade at this point
Post reply on HN