Fanless Pipo x7s 2015 atom box and supervised HA

So i had this media box lying around eating dust in a box. These covid times provided some spare time so I decided to tinker around with it a bit. It is an old device I used as media player back in the days. Fanless,HDMI, wifi, sd card reader, networkcard, bluetooth. Natively it ran a Bing version of windows 8 which I upgraded to win10 back then. It is dual boot, so it also booted in android. It is called the Pipo 7Xs. Atom processer, 32GB eMMC and 2Gb of ram. Since this version supports Uefi 32/64 I decided to play around with it. At first I wanted to replace the native OS’s with a linux version and see how it performed. This wasn’t an easy task but luckily I ran into Isaac, who had the same idea as me but was already way ahead in this proces. This is his link, that provided me lots of great info. (https://isaacs.pw/2020/06/installing-linux-lubuntu-20-04-lts-onto-a-pipo-x7-mini-pc-intel-z3736f/). I ran into difficulties using his method, and during this I decided to do it a little different and went for Raspian Debian Desktop which is not the actual same thing as for the rpi, but can run debian on intel.
Installation went quite smooth, wifi, network and sound all working.

Next step was installing docker and It was up in no time. Since I already have a HA running at home on my Microserver N54L running Xpenology and HA supervised in Docker I decided to go for supervised on this little machine as well. There is so many manuals online but I ended up with this one that helped me a lot. (https://medium.com/@jordanrounds/intel-nuc-home-assistant-supervised-7cc52d81744a).

All in all a nice journey during these days, ending up with another nice little machine, no noise, low power and running Home Assistant supervised. Quite proud for a linux noob :smiley:. I thought I would share this little project here. Here are some pictures.

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