After a lot of experimentation, I got Home Assistant OS booting and running from internal eMMC on an RK3566-based TV box. For me the whole project was a weekends experiment - at the same time I saved a lot of money if we compare with the same board configuration (for example Radxa 3 boards are 100€…

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Thanks for the step-by-step installation guide, which we can easily follow to get this running. Yes, these Android boxes really have a lot of potential and enough power to run Linux and HAOS. I am running a similar setup using Fensoft's image on a Rockchip-based box with an RK3528. My electrical ene…

Hi @sri4iot , I was also running HA on Lenovo Thinkcentre Tiny, no ideas how much the power consumption have dropped actually. But this was my goal, to shift the load. HDMI worked for me natively. If it does not work on your case - check .dtb file, it might be the case thay you used generic or the o…