Is this the perfect standalone tablet for HA?

hainesy · September 20, 2024, 10:17am

Update: cables arrived and works perfectly with a 30w USB-C power adapter. Would recommend!

pgale · September 20, 2024, 10:28am

Excellent thanks. I’ll order a couple.

rickitaly · September 20, 2024, 4:51pm

Hello everyone!
I also just installed lineage 15.1, Companion app and Fully Kiosk. Everything is great in couple of hours!!
Now my only issue is that i would like to enable “Hey google” but the option is grayed out in setting! I checked some online resources but it looks like its something with gapps and cannot find a solution. Anybody here solved it??
My goal is to fully replace my google nest, getting the possibility basically to interact with google home and play spotify stuff directly from the device.
Alternatives using HA?
Thanks!!

pgale · September 20, 2024, 5:25pm

I seem to remember someone mentioning this is enabled in one of the other gapps packages. Have you tried one of them? Not 100% sure though as I don’t use it.

jouster · September 20, 2024, 8:34pm

Great news, thanks for the heads up

Out of interest, does it require a 30w charger or will it work on a 18 or 20w one work?

wilhelmstroker · September 21, 2024, 11:32am

Received my second device the other day from the Dutch shop posted earlier in the thread.
Trying to change the mac address by using the steps from the troubleshooting part but getting stuck which is likely due to my inexperience with Linux. I flashed the device with a Pi 5 running Ubuntu.

The steps i’m following:
adb root
adb pull /vendor/firmware/wlan/qca_cld/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini
edit the file (change the value for Intf0MacAddress) and save
adb remount
adb push WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini /vendor/firmware/wlan/qca_cld/
adb reboot

This works fine, managed to edit the ini file and change the MAC address, but then ADB remount hangs, which, reading through the thread is a known issue as well so trying the suggested workaround:
adb shell su -c “mount -o rw,remount /system”
This fails with the following error:
/system/bin/sh: su: not found

I must be missing something fairly obvious, so can anyone point me in the right direction?

pgale · September 21, 2024, 11:48am

Is the mac address the same?

If installing Lineage 15.1, all of my mac addresses have been different. I took the mac section out of my guide as it’s not needed.

wilhelmstroker · September 21, 2024, 11:54am

AH! Yes you’re right, the MAC address is different for both devices. Thanks for the hint, should have checked that before diving in

limp15000 · September 24, 2024, 9:27am

Hello,
First of all want to start by a big thank you. My Thinksmart view was sitting in a drawer. I tried PMOS yesterday but it seems a bit too unstable and would prefer to have fully kiosk browser. So I just flashed your image but I am stuck at the two ADB commands.

I am running Windows 11 in non signed driver mode. I flashed with EDL and python.
C:\Program Files (x86)\ADB and Fastboot++>adb shell settings put secure user_setup_complete 1
adb.exe: no devices/emulators found

No too sure what I should do. I assume it’s a driver issue but if I was able to flash shouldn’t I use the same driver for ADB?
Sorry if this is a noob question.
Looking forward to seeing my Thinksmart alive again

jouster · September 24, 2024, 12:16pm

as stated, newer computers with either USB3 ports or even a USB controller on the MB…it cuasese issues…Ive got an old spare laptop from 2010 with Windows 11 on it and this worked first time for me on TSV and my Xiaomi Mi CLock too…Id definitely try to use an older machine or do it with a live bootable CD/USD drive

limp15000 · September 24, 2024, 1:13pm

It’s an old Surface book 1. But I can potentially try on a raspberry with Linux. Assuming ADB is available there as well. Will give it a try.

jouster · September 24, 2024, 1:43pm

oh i cant imagine a surface book that old would be a problem…can oyu see in device manage if it has a usb3.1 controller…doubt it but would explain the issue

limp15000 · September 24, 2024, 5:55pm

Will check but still odd that I can use EDL to flash the image from that machine…

limp15000 · September 24, 2024, 7:08pm

Yep so it seems it does have USB3.0…

limp15000 · September 24, 2024, 7:50pm

Confirmed it worked fine on raspian…
Just need to finish setting up fully kiosk again and see how it works.
Edit : Full success Will stick with the 8.1 image which seems stable for Fully kiosk Browser with an HA Dashboard. Time to play with some dashboard ideas. Thank you to this amazing community!

borgqueenx · September 26, 2024, 5:26am

How do we enable root on the lineageos rom?
I notice root is only available through adb in developer settings. Would love full root.

jaburges · September 28, 2024, 4:04am

I’m looking at the same thing until I get my local llama voice assistant pipeline set up.

I came across this:
Google assistant on lineage

HTH

Clam58 · September 28, 2024, 6:58pm

I tried a 20w charger but it didn’t work…

0rangutan · October 1, 2024, 11:16am

Also just got one of these through.
Works well on a 45W charger but not on an 18W.

IdahoSnakeHouse · October 4, 2024, 5:04pm

Thanks to all who have posted tutorials, I was able to get Lineage 15.1 installed using Linux Mint on an old laptop. Had to use some additional help from GitHub and good old trial and error, probably due to the known issues with newer versions of python.

Below is my first stab at a living room dashboard. I’m using Fully Kiosk to load a different user/theme/homepage in the bedroom, but that’s still under construction.

Couple of things I’ve learned trying to clean/speed things up:

Screen redrawing/reloading is annoying. It doesn’t seem to happen if you use the screensaver, but does happen if you turn the screen from off to on.
Screen reloading was most annoying when the screen would wake up thinking it was in Portrait Mode, when the device was oriented in Landscape mode. I played with settings in Android as well as Fully Kiosk, and I believe the Fully Kiosk orientation setting did the trick.
My Picture Entity card with the camera originally began rendering at the wrong size, then I got a screen resize once the stream loaded. To fix that I hard-coded the aspect ratio into the card settings.
The header is just a markdown card, but for some reason it renders last, causing the screen to push down when the page load finishes. It also sometimes ignores the styles I have in the theme. Not sure how to fix that.
Bubble Cards are awesome but I can’t figure out how to style the border on the Select card. So I went back to Mushroom cards for most stuff and for now I’m using Bubble Card for navigation and popups.
Using the new-ish card visibility options and a helper, I’m stacking 3 Picture Entity cards and cycling through cameras by tapping the screen. Luckily this is pretty fast and the cards on the screen don’t jump around, so it looks seamless.
Camera streams were originally pretty slow to load using the Synology integration. I switched to the Generic Camera using RTSP and that helped quite a bit.

Next on my agenda:

Incorporate voice assistant.
Work up a simple bedroom dashboard with an alarm clock and media control.
See if I can leverage the decluttering card to clean things up.
Work more of the card-mod styles into my theme. I cannot for the life of me get the Mushroom Select dropdown menu oval styling to work in a theme, though it works as a card-mod style for individual cards.
Work on the alignment of the markdown header. Currently using tables and I would like to simplify that if I can.
Work on some dynamic icons for the header depending upon stuff like workday/weekend, whether I have an alarm set, etc.
Style the nav buttons on the bottom to be less obtrusive.

These things are great, can’t wait to see where the custom ROM development ends up!