Echo Show 15 and Home Assistant in 2026: is it worth it?
Hands-on experience using an Echo Show 15 as a Home Assistant display in 2026.
Yuki
Official roommate

I have had an Echo Show 15 mounted at home for 3 years now, with the goal of keeping a constant eye on Home Assistant.
After 3 years of use, does it actually work? And more importantly, how?
The limitations I ran into
❌ End of third-party app installs
The biggest disappointment came from an update around mid-2023 / 2024:
it is now impossible to install third-party apps or APKs on the Echo Show 15.
Today, the only way to display Home Assistant on the tablet is via the built-in browser:
- Say: "Alexa, open Silk"
- Then open the URL of your Home Assistant instance
- (Recommended) Add your Home Assistant dashboard to favorites
Auto sleep
Second issue:
the Echo Show 15 (and 21) automatically goes to sleep.
Result:
- the screen turns off
- you have to relaunch the voice command
- reopen Silk
- then click your Home Assistant favorite again
Needless to say, not very practical day to day.
The workaround to avoid sleep mode
Thankfully, there is a simple trick to prevent sleep.
The idea is straightforward:
embed an iframe in your Home Assistant dashboard that simulates activity, so the screen stays on.
Setup
Create a Web Card on your Home Assistant dashboard and use the following URL:
https://dagammla.gitlab.io/keep-silk-open/iframe.html

