voorkant

your non-web Home Assistant front-end

Devices

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While originally targeted at Toon 1, voorkant can run on other devices too.

Toon 1 #

Specifications:

  • SoC: MCIMX27LM0P4A with:
  • CPU: ARM926EJ-S at 400 MHz
  • 128 MB memory
  • 128 MB flash, root file system 100MB, 35MB-70MB free after rooting depending on Toon software version (looks like newer versions take more space)
  • Ethernet, WiFi, Z-wave, USB port
  • 800x480 display with touch, advertised as 32 bits per pixel by the framebuffer driver
  • kernel version somewhere around 2.6.36-R10-h28
  • libc-2.21.so with GLIBC_ symbols GLIBC_2.4 to GLIBC_2.18

Based on the libc version, it turns out that binaries copied from Debian 8/armel tend to work, if they don’t need too many libraries.

To stop the stock software (this is non-permanent):

echo 'exit' > /tmp/etc-default-HCBv2
killall qt-gui
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fb0 count=1000

(the dd is optional, but makes it clear that indeed the Toon software was stopped).

Currently (April 2024), our libcurl build needs better random than /dev/random on this Linux build provides, so:

# cd /dev ; rm random ; mknod random c 1 9

This is also non-permanent.

Please see Installation for credential setup.

You may need to use scp -O to get your voorkant-lvgl binary onto the system. Then, start it, and within a second or two, you should see our touch interface appear.