New addition to my homelab.
Mostly will use like HA dashboard and remove management for Dell servers.
Pros: easily to obtain, cheap, room to upgrade (CPU, RAM, NVME SSD can be upgraded).
Cons: to nice to be used under HAOS.
Useful:
touchscreen work even on BIOS. (But not inside diagnostic tool)
Really nice !
Do you have some feedback on this hardware ?
Did you managed to use the LED ring ? The presence detection ? The mic and speakers ?
How do you use it ?
I bought one for 200€ !
That’s a really beautiful hardware for displaying the dashboard and much more. So powerful that you can completly runs everything you want.
Currently, it runs:
Touchkio
Lnxlink
Faster-whisper
The only inconvenient I found is that you can’t stop the fan when CPU is low temp.
What I plan for the future with this hardware:
Assist satellite
Music Assistant (with external CD player and external speakers)
Presence detection (already available as a device in Linux)
It’s a great device i was lucky a year ago to buy a V2 version of this hub with modern look and newer proc and no noise from fan. I bought it on ebay for just 150 euro, i cannot upgrade the device with more memory or proc like the one you have its all fixed.
I use it as a media device controlled from my desktop with Home Assistant Desktop, the device runs Windows 11 with HASS Agent installed, the device runs several desktops with
1: A Desktop runs Kodi for radio and TV or any other media connected to dvbviewer media server.
2: A Desktop running MicroSIP IP Phone app connected to my freepbx server, this app supports the led light ring what is a plus
3: A desktop running Ungoogled Chromium with Blue Iris all connected to Home Assistant for switching Desktop when alerts are detected or someone rings the frontdoor video doorbell.
4: HASS Agent for the media player speech notifications like weather updates and to get notification from my automations and world news updates.
5: The presence sensor now works with the latest HASS Agent release 2.2.0-beta4 Release 2.2.0-beta4 · hass-agent/HASS.Agent · GitHub , i worked together with one of the dev’s to get it working on the Lenovo. see release notes on release 2.2.0 beta 1 : Features:
Added suport for “HumanPresence” internal device sensor #281
I tried some time ago to install python and wyoming satellite so i can use it also with voice assist because the device has a excellent microphone array and it would make the setup a top notch implementation of a voice controlled smart device with many purposes, but i could not make it work. did not try it on wsl because of memory and it would use more cpu resource and would possible running the fan on a higher rpm.
If anybody tried the phyton/wyoming/ffmpeg setup native on Windows 11 i love to hear how that can be done.
No noise fan and modern look is very cool of the V2 is indeed really cool, and a bit more powerful. But I specifically chose the V1 to have a bigger screen (11.6" vs 10").
It seems you are able to do more with Windows that I can do with Linux , except for the assist part but I didn’t try. I may take the time to try to switch back to Windows to do some tests.
Thanks for sharing the information of the presence detection. Unfortunately this is based on .NET so not able to use on Linux.
I spent some time on reverse engineering for the LED ring, but needs to deactivate secure boot to be able to load specific Linux kernel and I don’t want to.
You could ask the dev’s there DrR0x and Amadeo on github they are also Linux goeroes i believe and maybe can help you with the presence detection sensor. The units are coming more and more available as company’s dump them because of terminating their employees working at home.
Anyway it was nice reading that other users have discovered the device and use it as a dashboard for Home assistant and the more people use it the more information we can share about it like you and me did.
, except for the assist part but I didn’t try. I may take the time to try to switch back to Windows to do some tests.