Is this the perfect standalone tablet for HA?

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

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Excellent thanks. Iā€™ll order a couple.

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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 ā€œHey googleā€ 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!!

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 donā€™t use it.

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?

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 iā€™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 ā€œmount -o rw,remount /systemā€
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?

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 itā€™s not needed.

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AH! Yes youā€™re right, the MAC address is different for both devices. Thanks for the hint, should have checked that before diving in :smiley:

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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 itā€™s a driver issue but if I was able to flash shouldnā€™t I use the same driver for ADB?
Sorry if this is a noob question.
Looking forward to seeing my Thinksmart alive again :slight_smile:

as stated, newer computers with either USB3 ports or even a USB controller on the MBā€¦it cuasese issuesā€¦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 tooā€¦Id definitely try to use an older machine or do it with a live bootable CD/USD drive

Itā€™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.

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

Will check but still odd that I can use EDL to flash the image from that machineā€¦

Yep so it seems it does have USB3.0ā€¦

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Confirmed it worked fine on raspianā€¦
Just need to finish setting up fully kiosk again and see how it works.
Edit : Full success :slight_smile: 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!

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

Iā€™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

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I tried a 20w charger but it didnā€™t workā€¦

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