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 (havenāt 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 Iāll 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 iām missing but when i run edl from Powershell iām prompted to select an app to open with the command
EDIT: doh āpython edlā¦ā iām 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 ā¦
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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 Iād 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 hadnāt seen this piece of hardware and at this price point I figured Iād it doesnāt work I wonāt feel bad for trying.
Iāll report back on how it works with a wake word.
Edit: just noticed the ROM is android 8.1, which doesnāt bode well as the ability to hand off the audio input between apps was slow and unreliable prior to android 10. But Iāll still try it out.
Noticing this thing feels a bit pokey in the H-A app. Any recommendations to improve the responsiveness?
Iām seeing the same thing in my dashboards. Itās 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, itās more responsive. Still not great, but it doesnāt 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 ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
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 āheavyā 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 itād 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 Iād recommend for someone else.
Perhaps you donāt 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.
Maybe have a look at the EDL live DVD. This is my next option.
Yes, I also experience the slight delay on initial Lovelace load. I had always chalked it up to heavy JavaScript.
IME, this is not uncommon for lower end android units. That said, this device is much faster than my t6e, or other smart displays. For me, after the initial load, everything works very smoothly.
(Even with my egregious hacs abuse and sketchy yaml, lol)
I still think we can eke out some additional performance and possibly fix the audio stream issue by rebuilding chromium with a different set of flags, better tuned to this device.
I made no effort to optimize previously.
Edit: system webview as a dependency for the HA app kinda sucks, IMO. I wish HA devs would switch to geckoview. Download Firefox and see how much faster it loads ha dashboards!
ended up putting ubuntu on an old laptop -install worked flawlessly.
One question - why the HA app and not fully kiosk?
No reason you couldnāt install fully kiosk instead of the HA app if thatās your preference.
Though they are both running system webview internally. So performance is identical.