#ELO 15" I-Series for Android with Andro...

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balmy coyote
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How are these working for you. I got 4. The screen is nice and responsive. The Elo software is a pain. Have you gotten a more recent webview to work? I did an update on one and the newer webview could render HA but it’s not great and a lot doesn’t work. Tried the last webview with 7 support but can’t seem to get the device to use it.

mental sable
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I’m posting in the Reddit thread where I originally saw these and also digging into old XDA Developer forum posts looking for anyone else who have loaded custom roms, hopefully. Will let you know if I find anything out. Haven’t had a chance to tinker much yet

elder hawk
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I've been busy with other projects, but I've got 28 of these things as motivation to get them to work. I'm doing a little research each night but I'm new to both HA and tinkering with android.

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2 with busted screens, so wiling to brick a few on the way to a solution.

mental sable
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From Reddit: "Others haven't gotten farther than I, but wanted to document how to make some progress and maybe save somebody some time. You enable developer options in the usual way (Home -> Apps -> Settings then fast taps on About Tablet).

USB debugging has a couple of quirks. There are four microUSB ports on each of the edges when you pop off their covers. However, these are disabled when enabling USB debugging, so you can't use these. Instead, you first need to use the USB-A port on the back.

Go to Developers Options and select ON for OEM unlocking, USB Debugging, and Switch USB to Device Mode.

I had to plug/unplug the device from my Linux desktop a couple of times for it to show up on adb devices. Once it showed up, I could enable adb over wifi (recommended by Elo documentation) with:


adb tcpip 5555

adb connect 192.168.1.146:5555

(change to your devices IP).

Then you can push apps to the sdcard on the device and install from ES File explorer. For example, adb push Magisk-v29.0.apk /sdcard/

However, Fully Kiosk and Home Assistant don't work as is. Trying to get root now."

From Reddit

balmy coyote
mental sable
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Goign to give some of this a try. This poster's comment might be helpful:

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And his response to his own comment below it

mental sable
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His response won't be helpful for you, tube. I'll look at those XDA posts and the apk mirror post as well. I'm sure I'll run into the same issue

elder hawk
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Is this me in a week? KEKW

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balmy coyote
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I haven't tried to take it off

elder hawk
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I meant the tablet as a whole*

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About 30% of mine made tape noises as I pulled them from the bubblewrap

balmy coyote
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oh, first 2 have been okay but when I pulled the edge connector covers off one they were dirty / nasty stuff in any small gap

balmy coyote
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so here is what works best for me on a device where I pulled the update from ELO. the update no longer has a file explorer app that will show all the apps and launch them. I installed smart launcher 6 with adb. I've not been able to figure out how to reliably stop the elo launcher at boot. Once booted I unlock with the 1elo password and go into android settings/developer tools and running services and stop the elo android services. this keeps the registration screen from constantly popping backup. from there I can use this adb command to launch the smart launcher 6: adb shell monkey -p ginlemon.flowerfree -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER 1

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I've installed firefox via adb and can launch it from the now started launcher. it is able to render things much better than the built in web view.

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In trying to update the built in webview I've learned it really can't be done unless it's a rooted device.

elder hawk
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Again, I am new to this so I don't know the viability of those, but they're a "maybe" w/ my limited knowledge

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RE: security concerns

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mental sable
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Yep, mine were pretty gnarly. Need to clean the edges still. Will give that firefox install a go, thanks tube.

mental sable
balmy coyote
mental sable
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Welcome, I'll keep an eye on that thread. Thanks for pointing us toward the firefox/launcher install. Also, as a sidenote, thanks for great products. I use them for z wave and zigbee and they've worked absolutely perfectly for the year-ish I've had them

mental sable
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I somehow initially pulled the only screen that wasn't damaged haha. My other three were cracked in shipping. Looks like because they were just packed in, the screens were touching the POE modules and had cracks in essentially the same spots. Will see what the seller says

balmy coyote
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ouch, of course I've yet to look at 2 of the 4 I got. going to try that web view based on my research I'm not sure it will work though. for some reason one of the tablets I had previously working on PoE is getting power but no network now.

mental sable
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Also check to see if you received all 4 PoE modules as well. Happy to send mine if needed, since it looks like three of these are likely going to be waste (unless I can figure out how to repurpose, but I'm not that handy)

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I think everyone in the thread so far has said theirs came with the modules, so I'm sure yours did, too. The black square that sticks out on the back is the PoE module

elder hawk
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all 28 I got had the PoE modules, a couple were missing the PoE bezels, though

elder hawk
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Oh wow, there's 7 showing available now

balmy coyote
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all 4 of mine have intact screens. the Web view in the last Reddit link didn't work either - I think firefox is the only option unless another non-chromium based browser exists until a rooted image is circulated. would be awesome if these were wide spread enough to get some folks interested in porting Lineage or postmarketos to them.

mental sable
elder hawk
mental sable
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Trying to install alternate webview now

mental sable
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Hmm can't get it working on my end either, odd

balmy coyote
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I’m frustrated as I can’t seem to get Ethernet working on any of the 3 devices I’ve worked on so far. It gets power and boots from PoE but no data, android says Ethernet is disabled, and when I toggle it it doesn’t save.

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and 4th one bots and connects over PoE ethernet first try. dont get it.

balmy coyote
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and 4th one stopped working on subsequent boots

balmy coyote
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figured it out. ethernet gets turned off when usb is in usb device mode under debugging.

balmy coyote
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looking for a decent on screen home button app that's not bulky etc.

mental sable
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I'll keep my eye out for the same. Right now, I just have the default buttons at the bottom of the screen turned on

balmy coyote
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Do you find those reliable? I think I kill the service that provides them. Home never seemed to work and back was sort of hit or miss- maybe again because I had all the Elo services killed. May put a zigbee button near by to trigger the adb command to start the launcher 😂

mental sable
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Ha! I had the same thought about the launcher. So far, mines been reliable though. I only killed the DC service

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Only been doing that for about two days though

mental sable
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As an update, my buttons at the bottom have been solid for the last few days

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Maybe try a restart and only kill that DC service instead

mental sable
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Haven’t read this yet

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Looks like folks are able to get to android 8

mental sable
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Giving this a go now. Update is installing

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Android 8.1.0 installed. Easy peasy!

mental sable
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Guy even included a .bat to remove/disable ELO stuff + install these apks. Pretty cool.

mental sable
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@balmy coyote tagging you in case you don’t have notifications enabled for this thread

balmy coyote
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nice!

balmy coyote
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No day job today so inbetween getting orders out I hope to try this and get one up on the wall at least by this weekend.

mental sable
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ELO instructions say 8gbmicrosd formatted to fat32 I think. I used a 32 and it worked fine

mental sable
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Haven't used Wallpanel before. Pretty sweet how MQTT works with it. I have the tablet mounted in my office. I set up my office lighting automation to now wake the tablet when it turns on the lights as well. Works perfectly

mental sable
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Either of you having an issue with WallPanel/HA (any app) not responding? Lately, I've gotten "WallPanel isn't responding" with two options: wait or close the app. I'm assuming it's a memory issue. Maybe it just needs to be rebooted ocassionally, though I've tried that and it's come back fairly quickly