My take on a home dashboard running on the Lenovo ThinkSmart View and managing multiple devices running Fully Kiosk

Hi, yes I have Samsung smart washer and dryer. They’re excellent machines. They connect to SmartThings and I then get the data from that. It is cloud based however but it has been working reliably so far. Probably one of the most useful sets of data to show on a dashboard :grin:

To wake the screens, I have a set of automations linked via mmWave presence sensors in each location. That works flawlessly.

Thanks a lot!

The Playstore version of WallPanel seems to constantly crash. Anyone find a stable version that works with LineageOS on the Lenovo?

Not being able to wake the screen is more of an issue than I originally thought. The volume buttons don’t wake the screen. And there’s no power button to tap. The only way is to slide the camera privacy shuttle slider back and forth, that’s really hard to do. I’m not sure that slider is designed to take that much abuse.

I guess a motion sensor to make a wake API call is the only solution if you don’t want the display on all day long.

The volume button do wake the screen - if you have that set in the settings. Looks like you don’t have it set.

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Hi @bjm
Did you have chance to have a look?
Thank you!

bugga, sorry, totally forgot, the long weekend got away from me, I’ll take a look tonight, I’ll put a calendar reminder on for me :slight_smile:

Hey @miriumar if you go to settings > hardware switch settings andcyou eill get these settings

Hi @bjm
I can not see this option on my device under settings. Maybe because your version is different than another I installed: Is this the perfect standalone tablet for HA? ?

However from your options looks like there is no way to shutdown the device either, mainly wake or sleep one. I wanted to find a way to shutdown it properly without need of power off the electricity… but looks like it is getting hard :smiley:
Thank you for your support anyway!

My thread (this one) is about Lineage and not Mattmon’s 8.1. They are quite different although both based on Android 8.1.

Thanks for reply @pgale I don’t know why but convinced Mattmon’s were based on LineageOS 15.1…
I may need to consider installing yours since have shutdown capability which I want and seems you got it really stable.
Thanks for sharing!

Not sure Lineage does shut down. I don’t ever do that so haven’t tested that. I think someone else said there were problems. None of these ROMs are 100% perfect, Lineage is the best for my use though. I think Lineage needs root access to shut down and restart and that was tricky when I tested it - but didn’t persevere.

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I managed to root Lineage 15.1 for the TSV. I somewhat followed along with this video https://youtu.be/8o5YILpoIvs

To summarise:
First download the Magisk apk to your computer: Releases · topjohnwu/Magisk · GitHub

Then connect a USB to the TSV and in ADB and Fastboot++ enter

adb reboot recovery

Once booted into recovery mode select Apply Update - ADB Update. Then in ADB on your computer enter

adb sideload Magisk-v28.apk

I used v28 but it probably works with other versions. Once it’s finished restart the device. Then open up to Magisk and hit Install. It’ll complain about something to do with ‘Your device needs to reflash Magisk to work properly’. Then select ‘install direct installation’. It’ll then do its thing and root your device.

From there when you open an app that can do root actions it’ll prompt if you want to let it work in root mode. In Magisk you can select the Superuser tab to see what apps you have granted permission to. I had to restart Fully Kiosk Browser then manually grant access in the Superuser tab.

Maybe you don’t even need to boot into recovery mode and can skip straight to installing the apk directly in LineageOS and seeing if it can root it that way.

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Thanks for the write up, that’s very useful :grin:

I just found out how the navigation bar changes with the display rotation:
When adjusting the display scaling (Android Settings > Display > Advanced) to the minimum or one step above the minimum, the navigation bar rotates with the screen. Everything higher than that leads to the known behavior, ie. the menu sticks on the short side of the screen

Sorry, didn’t check for the English option name, but I think it’s clear what I mean. :slightly_smiling_face:

I got stuck with not having “Partition Manager” showing in the tools menu. Running QFIL “as admin” in Windows seemed to do the trick. I’m also a MacOS person but had an old Laptop in a drawer that did the trick for flashing the TSV.

I don’t know why not… but I try it with different USB cables. different ports…


and I don’t know why? help… :slight_smile:

I just got one installed, seemed to work pretty good so far, at the beginning i had some trouble to logon my wifi network.
Tried to logon my mobile hotspot put it on 2.4 and 5 ghz to be sure as is my wifi at home.
But almost every few things i do like trying to visit a website to get webview installed the wifi drops .
Need to turn wifi off on the device and turn it on but a few scrolls and links the wifi drops again, anyone has the same experience, its making the device a bit useless or lets say it different, not very nice to have in my home for HA since it doesnt have any wan connection :frowning:

Can have a go with android only install ,maybe that works , havent tried that yet.
Anyone has had this, i used these instructions to install btw : GitHub - pgale/lineage_15.1_Installation_TSV: Lenovo ThinkSmart View Lineage 15.1 installation guide thanks for that

Vincent

i tried my dell laptop, left 2 usb-c ports didnt work, right port did connect or atleast i seen the com port, then got logs could not open com.

Tried my girlfriends laptop, same problem but this time usb (the “normal” one that goes to usb-c) , didnt work.

Then i used my desktop pc, and probably got a usb ( black) port on the computer, that did work flawlessly , didnt take long to flash/install it then.

So , if you have another computer that u can use, i did try at first about all the stuff i could find about the error many of us get. so maybe this helps , another computer to use.

Anything else didnt work for me tough

Vincent

Works fine here. The only thing I read about wifi drops, was after the device felt to sleep (screen off).
But your description sounds different.

Have you tried it closer to rout router / access point?
Not sure how strong the wifi signal of this device is …

i have on every floor an accespoint, ubiquiti unifi roaming system. 2.4 and 5 ghz , also tried forcing it on 2.4 ghz thought maybe 5 would be the problem.
Just flashed 2 more devices those are stable , no drops, the other device i am talking about i am going to re flash it maybe that works.

Also the wifi wasnt the problem, that device im talking about also crashes and needs a power cycle after some button presses, its like its to heavy for this tablet.

spoke to someone on github also and he had from 6 units one woith exactly the same problems and could not find out or managed to repair that one