Great that you persevered and got it working - USB is incredibly picky for this process and has caused many issues. Glad it’s working.
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I just want to highlight how helpful the instructions from @pgale were on Github. The process objectively is not very straightforward for people not used to it, but his instructions make it incredibly easy. The instructions know on which places you may get confused and make sure you are getting your hand hold until the end and even a bit after that 
Thank you, @pgale
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Thanks for that. It’s a joint effort with multiple people contributing
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I know that you asked ages ago - but I just found:
My first two TSV I also started the PC in advanced mode as per the instruction.
It caused one laptop to brick with Bitlocker. (could not find the key in any MS-account)
However I was lucky to flash the TSV finally.
Buuuut - then today I got another two and - suprise - unter updates there are some optional updates–> Qualcommn drivers. They install and I can connect without driver signature issues!
is anyone finding the performance on these quite bad? something simple like loading a popup with a video stream seems to take ages (or perhaps its a configuration issue?)
They are very limited RAM wise. I think others (Mattmon maybe?) were exploring soldering higher capacity modules but that’s very Soecialist.
Depends what camera feed and viewer you are using. I use bubblecard popups with a simple picture element sowing a lower res feed and it works ok. Sometimes a second or two to start playing.
I also used bubble card popups like pgale mentioned.
But I noticed, that the combination of camera view, the popup and the whole dashboard behind it was causing the bad performance.
My current setup is now an additional hidden dashboard page with just the camera card.
It can be accessed like the popup, by pressing a button on the main dashboard, using a navigate action, or automatically when someone rings at the doorbell.
This loads instantly for me, even with the high resolution stream.
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Clooos has done quite a lot of work on Bubblecard - sooo many updates and has improved the performance of buttons and popups a fair bit
Interesting using a separate dashboard page. I had considered that a lot but in testing, it took a while for the camera feed to load.Particularly if using the Frigate card (advanced camera card) which offers fab features but is really heavy on load times and resources I guess.
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Yes, I also tested it again after Clooos wrote about performance improvements.
But I guess it’s just too much stuff in the memory in my case.
I only use the default camera url in the card that loads the video stream from my Scrypted NVR, not the full UI.
This opens really fast.
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Yeah shame the TSV doesn’t have an easier memory upgrade path.
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Thanks for all you do.
Please how can i send TTS to this device from HA?
I don’t see it in the device/entity list.
Please can you expand on this? I am still having issues with TTS on my Think smart. Thanks
There is a triangular play button at the top of the Snapcast app. You have to hit that so that it shows a square “Stop” sign. Once the Snapcast shows that it’s playing, you can use the tablet as an audio source.
Does that help?
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Thanks a lot. It does help and I realized I have to read up on “Snapcast” first. Didn’t even know it’s an app. Thanks again!
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Hi Litrecola,
I am just a week old in hands-on HA and can’t seem to figure out this snapcast thing. Please can you enlighten me or point me to some basic literature.
I have flashed the TSV.
Installed Music Assistant and Snap cast on my HA but not getting any tangible result.
Your TSV (marked as a “Kingston” in Snapcast) should show up on the list of music players in Music Assistant. If they don’t, you’ll need to add the Snapcast as a “Player Provider” in MA in its settings. That may be the piece that you are missing.
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Thanks a lot! I didn’t install Fully Kiosk.
Bear in mind that there can be several media players that show up in HA - FKB sets one up but it’s not as compatible or fully featured as others from memory.
I use snapcast on all my TSV’s (installed later version from the website rather than the old version in the play store). The built-in snapcast server in MA (if enabled), just finds them. I use that as it was more reliable.
For multiple TSV’s You can also change the name. In settings-system-developer options-device hostname. This was picked up by the snapcast client.
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Thanks. Now i understand better.
yeah i’m having that exact issue and also using scrypted nvr and bubble card.
it does load much faster if I add another page, how did you automate the navigation to the page when motion is detected on a binary sensor for example?
I’m still finding the overall process to navigate and load the card takes quite some time
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