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Lenovo ThinkSmart View for Microsoft Teams $27.99 Woot!
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Woot! has this Lenovo device for sale; original MSRP is $350 ish. The default use case is kinda garbage but the cool thing is that you can flash a custom ROM on it and use it as a hub for Home Assistant - this opens up a lot of cool possibilities for tinkering especially if you already run a lot of home automation with HA. See this community thread below for instructions, as one example. Pretty sure there could be other uses if you go thru xda forums.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/is-this-the-perfect-standalone-tablet-for-ha/658422/13
Edit: I should mention that if you're planning to run MS Teams on it as-is, it will only run the business version (which requires a business license). So you won't be able to use your personal account for Teams
https://www.woot.com/offers/lenov...source=
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/is-this-the-perfect-standalone-tablet-for-ha/658422/13
Edit: I should mention that if you're planning to run MS Teams on it as-is, it will only run the business version (which requires a business license). So you won't be able to use your personal account for Teams
https://www.woot.com/offers/lenov...source=
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Woot! has this Lenovo device for sale; original MSRP is $350 ish. The default use case is kinda garbage but the cool thing is that you can flash a custom ROM on it and use it as a hub for Home Assistant - this opens up a lot of cool possibilities for tinkering especially if you already run a lot of home automation with HA. See this community thread below for instructions, as one example. Pretty sure there could be other uses if you go thru xda forums.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/is-this-the-perfect-standalone-tablet-for-ha/658422/13
Edit: I should mention that if you're planning to run MS Teams on it as-is, it will only run the business version (which requires a business license). So you won't be able to use your personal account for Teams
https://www.woot.com/offers/lenov...source=
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/is-this-the-perfect-standalone-tablet-for-ha/658422/13
Edit: I should mention that if you're planning to run MS Teams on it as-is, it will only run the business version (which requires a business license). So you won't be able to use your personal account for Teams
https://www.woot.com/offers/lenov...source=
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Also, it's been this price on Ebay from Lenovo direct since late last year, last I knew.
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Also, it's been this price on Ebay from Lenovo direct since late last year, last I knew.
Not sure where they are with Google Assistant, but it does do Home Assistant and Google Home.
For this scope, USB doesn't really impact it.
And when you compare it to similar devices like the ESP32-S3 modules that are all over Ali for around this price, these Lenovos are far better.
Also, if we're thinking about the same listing from last year, that was a private seller liquidating thousands of these things. That guy was a total tool who kept lying about how many they had and then bumping up the price the longer the listing went on.
The big value with it is the form factor, build quality, and built in speakers(albeit not great but better than any tablet). This thing sits nicely in landscape or portrait orientation.
I'm largely going to use Home Assistant on these but I might use one for some basic music app or something.
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