And right as I was getting ready to transfer my fully kiosk license to this device the screen died. I can still connect via adb and take screenshots that show the home screen my HA dashboard but the screen just displays a flash of the boot logo and then black. What an infuriating massive fucking waste of time. Hopefully this one is just a dud and Lenovo or the seller will replace it.
Thanks! I was getting absolutely nowhere trying to make this work via WSL2… edl would just go forever and not notice that I had plugged the dang thing in.
additonal notes:
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I needed to connect through a USB hub on a surface laptop studio for the lenovo device to be recognized.
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I also needed to install the driver via Zadig a second time (it was called
QUSB_BULK) after booting with both volume keys depressed.
Hi
Thnx for the image and works very nice.
2 questions.
- I see that the screen timeout you only can standby only 30 min, and would set it to off.
- The device on my network is named kingston, is this somewhere to change?
@mattmon most things worked pretty well for me- however:
adb push extras/wallpaper.png /sdcard/Downloads/
gives me this error:
adb: error: failed to copy 'extras/wallpaper.png' to 'C:/Program Files/Git/sdcard/Downloads/': remote secure_mkdirs failed: No such file or directory
Also, for the horizontal versus vertical splash screen, it was unclear if the horizontal one can be added after flashing. It appears not-
.\adb.exe shell mv /system/media/bootanimation.zip.horiz /system/media/bootanimation.zip
mv: bad '/system/media/bootanimation.zip.horiz': No such file or directory
Flashed mine yesterday. If I remember correctly, adb push extras/wallpaper.png /sdcard/Download/ worked for me. After that install the gallery apk to select the wallpaper you uploaded usung adb.
Anyone got Assist working?
The Wallpanel app had tts notifications (haven’t tried it yet). This was my wall-mounted tablet solution for spoken notifications several years ago. But that was all before Year of the voice. It would be awesome to get some wakeword detection on this device.
Maybe I’ll dive into this when I have some spare time:
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OK, I ran a few different tests. Spotify App, Media file in HA, Radio Station in HA, Youtube in the browser and Youtube App. The audio from the Spotify app and Youtube App worked just fine, the items not working are browser based. About to dig through the logs and see what i can find.
Edit: Here are the log files from a test from a app and one from a browser Lenovo Audio Logs - Google Drive
not sure what i’m missing but when i run edl from Powershell i’m prompted to select an app to open with the command
EDIT: doh “python edl…” i’m guessing is the command. However the process hangs after device detected 
inside the edl directory in cmd or powershell run:
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
make sure you have the following in your Environment Variables (System > Environment variables)
(bottom box, look for PATH)
Then add
C:/Users//edl
C:/Program Files/Git/cmd [Check this]
C:\Program Files\UsbDk Runtime Library [Check this]
Where I have said [Check this] above be sure to check the folder exists (as it maybe Program Files (x86) )
Finally you should be able to run:
python edl qfil …
Had mentioned earlier I had picked up two of these, both new in box.
I have very little command line experience, and continued to have issues on my m2 MacBook, so installed Mint on another device I had and got everything up and running almost exclusively using copy / paste from the directions here.
I did hit a few speed bumps along the way where I did not have some items installed, but a quick search on each gave me the commands to install l, then I’d just try to run the edl again.
Items I installed along the way (HP pro desk 600, Linux Mint Cinnamon):
pyserial
Library
docopt
pyusb
After flashing one, the second took no time at all since my configuration was all set.
Thanks for linking my post, I hadn’t seen this piece of hardware and at this price point I figured I’d it doesn’t work I won’t feel bad for trying.
I’ll report back on how it works with a wake word.
Edit: just noticed the ROM is android 8.1, which doesn’t bode well as the ability to hand off the audio input between apps was slow and unreliable prior to android 10. But I’ll still try it out.
Noticing this thing feels a bit pokey in the H-A app. Any recommendations to improve the responsiveness?
I’m seeing the same thing in my dashboards. It’s pretty snappy in the rest of the app and plays my camera streams without noticeable latency, so it seems to be specific to Lovelace.
Edit: I noticed that the time and date were not updated by NTP, and so the date was a couple of weeks behind. After correcting the time and date, it’s more responsive. Still not great, but it doesn’t feel straight up broken the way it did before.
EDIT: Disabled some card-mod transitions I had across those views shaved about a second off of load times ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I created a new dashboard with only the items I deemed necessary and that seemed to help quite a bit as my normal dashboard is “heavy” lol
About a 1-3 second delay on initial view loads as seen in the my video:
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Any windows folks got it working or am I gonna have to dust off an old laptop and add Linux?
I started to do it via Windows and realized it’d probably just be easier on Linux (for someone like me at least, who knows just enough to mess things up). I used an old laptop with Ubuntu on it that I keep around for precisely this purpose; it was pretty straightforward going that route and is honestly what I’d recommend for someone else.
Perhaps you don’t need another computer. Most distros can be booted from a usb stick.
Even better idea!
Fair point - and they connect fine to the USB devices? May give that a whirl - good call
Well of course the stick with the OS uses one usb port. But as long as you have 2 usb ports it should be ok.