20USD easy to install homeassistant supervised host ("haos like" with addons / dq08 tvbox / rk3528 4g ram)

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Hi,

As I’m flashing a lot of DQ08 with home assistant supervised, i’ve created a very quick ready to use tutorial.

On windows 64 bit:

  • unzip tools/FactoryTool.zip on the root of your disk (example: c:\)
  • unzip the release in the same directory
  • run FactoryTool
  • clic on Firmware and select the .img file
  • clic on Restore
  • clic on Run
  • do not plug the power on the box
  • keep pushed the reset button in the AV connector
  • plug a male-male usb cable to the black port (not the blue one)
  • wait 2 seconds (windows usb sound)
  • release everything and wait for the green cell (2 minutes)
  • unplug everything, connect ethernet + DC and wait approx 12 minutes: system will install requirements (3min) then reboot and install HA (5 min) and setup HA (5 min)
  • scan your network with this
  • connect to http://<ip>:8123

You have found a better android box ? Send me one and i’ll do the port.

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Hello fensoft,

HAOS or Supervised. Words have meaning, which one is it?

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Thanks for Sharing! i am looking for HAOS for the Tivo Stream 4k, i have many of these since I sell IPTV services and I use them to install my App to clients, sometimes you get them on 20 bucks on amazon and I wonder if there is a way to reflash them with HAOS

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I’ve read here that:

RockChip (rk3399, rk3328, rk3288, rk3228, etc) based TV Boxes are probably the best supported TV boxes currently. They have the most active developers.

Tivo Stream 4k is an amlogic (S9xx) based TV Box, sorry but i’m not working on that.
I can freely work on any rockchip box if you send me one.

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I understand, and appreciate your honesty, I will look int DQ08 to be used as HA server for low cost automations. Since my main interest is to sell the Tivos as players and not as servers.

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The file at his GitHub is called supervised, so its not Haos.

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Well Supervised is going on the no-longer-officially-supported list.
I don’t believe this would have been supported anyway, but just wanted to point this out to anyone looking to go this direction.
It may not be stable enough to run your production system on.

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Got several HA boxes running feb 2024 without any issues.
I’m also porting to a real HAOS but it may take few weeks.

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You have 6 months. That’s when supervised will officially be unsupported

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unsupported doesn’t mean removed from development. we’ll see then but i’m pretty confident on my side

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also, supervisor is internaly used in haos so it wont disapear at the end of the 6 month, only the support