Audio
A Home Assistant media player, a Sendspin player for Music Assistant, and a Bluetooth speaker.
LANovo
Turn a Lenovo Smart Display into a local Home Assistant display, speaker and voice assistant. One program in place of Android, no cloud, no account.
33visualizers
9UI styles
18color themes
8clock faces
2wake words at once
0cloud accounts
Visualizers
Section titled “Visualizers”33 audio visualizers for the screen saver, all GPU shaders at the screen’s full resolution. Each one reacts to the microphone, to what’s playing, or both.
What LANovo is
Section titled “What LANovo is”Lenovo’s Smart Displays have a good screen, stereo speakers, two far-field microphones, a camera with a shutter, and a proximity sensor. Google stopped updating them.
LANovo replaces the whole Android stack with a single program that drives the screen, speakers, microphones, camera and radios directly, and talks only to your Home Assistant.
Features
Section titled “Features”Tessera dashboards
Section titled “Tessera dashboards”Lay out pages in Tessera’s editor in Home Assistant and the display draws them. Most of Tessera’s tiles and features are supported, in every style and theme.
Adding it to Home Assistant
Section titled “Adding it to Home Assistant”After install the display shows a code. Scan it and submit, and Home Assistant adds it through the ESPHome integration. No YAML, no add-on, no key to copy.
Two voice assistants
Section titled “Two voice assistants”Two wake words, each with its own Assist pipeline and its own visuals for listening, thinking and answering. “Stop” works without a wake word.
Intercom
Section titled “Intercom”Audio and video calls between LANovo displays and EchoLocal devices on your network, with auto-answer for the devices you choose.
Messages and timers
Section titled “Messages and timers”Messages from any automation in four tones and four styles, each with its own chime. Timers in six styles.
Chromecast
YouTube with SponsorBlock, YouTube Music, YouTube TV and Prime Video. Experimental.
Camera
RTSP with main and sub streams, ONVIF discovery, and a snapshot camera in Home Assistant.
Privacy switches
The microphone switch and camera shutter are physical. Home Assistant sees their state but can’t change it.
Sensors
Proximity wake, adaptive brightness, and night mode when the room is dark.
Updates
From Home Assistant’s Updates page or from System on the display. The previous version is kept until the new one runs, and an earlier release can be installed again.
Rotation
Section titled “Rotation”The Smart Display 10, Smart Display 8 and ThinkSmart View rotate automatically. The dashboards, settings, camera and everything else turn with them.
Other displays
Section titled “Other displays”The Smart Display 7 gets a compact layout for its smaller screen. The JBL Link View and the Lenovo ThinkSmart View are supported too.
The EchoLocal integration
Section titled “The EchoLocal integration”Optional, from HACS, and shared with LANovo’s sister project EchoLocal: a card for every display, a dashboard with all of them and your Echo devices, Fleet to compare and copy settings between them, turn history with recordings, a wake word library, custom tones, groups and health.
Get started
Section titled “Get started”Supported devicesWhich displays LANovo runs on.
InstallOne command, about half an hour the first time.