LANovo

An open-source replacement for Google Assistant on Lenovo Smart Displays, JBL Link View and ThinkSmart View, with Home Assistant Assist, dashboards, apps, music and video calls.

Uses the display's existing microphones, speakers, camera and sensors. Home Assistant discovers it through the ESPHome native API.

Nixie clock	Hardware alarm panel

Tessera in Neon	Photos

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Devices

Device	Codename	OS	Status
Lenovo Smart Display 10	blueberry	Android Things 8.x	Supported
Lenovo Smart Display 8	amber	Android Things 8.x	Supported
Lenovo Smart Display 7	ivy	Android Things 8.x	Supported
JBL Link View	opal	Android Things 8.x	Supported
Lenovo ThinkSmart View	penghu	Android 8.x	Supported

Additional devices supported by our sister project EchoLocal

Device	Codename	OS	Status
Echo Dot (2nd gen)	biscuit	Fire OS 6.x	Supported
Echo Show 5 (1st gen)	checkers	Fire OS 6.x	Supported
Echo Show 5 (2nd gen)	cronos	Fire OS 6.x	Supported
Echo Show 8 (1st gen)	crown	Fire OS 6.x	Supported
Echo Show 8 (2nd gen)	athena	Fire OS 7.x	Supported

Features

Visuals

33 audio visualizers, all GPU shaders at the screen's full resolution. Each one reacts to the microphone, to what's playing, or both. Run one full screen or two side by side, on the screen saver or for each voice assistant while it listens and answers. LCARS, HAL 9000, a lava lamp, rain on glass, light cycles, four Pip-Boys, studio VU meters and more.

Native dashboard

A clock in one of 21 faces, photo wallpaper, weather, and tabs for Home Assistant lights, switches, cameras, doorbells and your alarm panel. Pick lights and switches by area, label or entity.

Tessera dashboards

Design pages in Tessera in Home Assistant. Choose LANovo's native renderer or embedded Tessera firmware; both use the same layouts.

Styles and themes

Nine styles (Standard, Material You, Glass, E-ink, Metro, Terminal, Hi-fi, Neon, Skeuo) and eighteen color themes, applied to everything on the display, Tessera pages included.

Rotation

The Smart Display 10, Smart Display 8 and ThinkSmart View rotate automatically. The dashboards, settings, camera and everything else turn with them.

Voice

On-device wake words with microWakeWord and openWakeWord. Two assistants, each with its own wake word, Assist pipeline and visuals. "Stop" works without a wake word. Ask your assistant to call another device or send a broadcast.

Intercom

Audio and video calls between LANovo displays and EchoLocal devices on your network, with auto-answer for the devices you choose. Call a display from a Home Assistant dashboard with the integration. Broadcast a voice message to every device at once, and keep devices outside your home out with a shared home key.

Timers and messages

Six timer styles. Messages from Home Assistant in four tones and four styles, each with its own chime, including custom sounds.

Audio

• A Home Assistant media_player for announcements, TTS and radio
• A Sendspin player for Music Assistant
• A Bluetooth speaker
• A Chromecast receiver that runs each app's own receiver page, with SponsorBlock for YouTube (experimental)

Camera

An RTSP server on port 8554 with main and sub streams for Frigate, Blue Iris or similar, ONVIF discovery, and a snapshot camera in Home Assistant. The physical shutter stops the camera.

Also

• Bluetooth proxy for Home Assistant
• Proximity wake and adaptive brightness
• Night mode: dim, dim to a clock, or screen off when the room is dark
• Photos from Immich and Google Photos, as wallpaper, a screen saver or a full-screen app
• Settings on the display or from Home Assistant, and config sync between displays
• Updates from Home Assistant or from the display, stable or development channel, and earlier versions to go back to
• A PIN lock for the settings menu
• Apps: Intercom, Cameras (live video and audio with the integration), Lights, Switches, Mirror, Shopping list, Calendar, Radar, more coming

In a browser

Every display serves its own web page over HTTPS: a live view of the screen, every setting with search, alarms, calls and broadcasts, and logs. Live screen control includes QR pairing and remote keyboard input; portable settings can be exported and imported. Behind it is an HTTP API for scripts. The certificate is self-signed, or comes from Cert Warden if you run one. See In a browser.

The optional integration

Everything above works with stock Home Assistant. The EchoLocal integration (HACS), shared with our sister project, adds a card for each display with its screen drawn live, a dashboard with every display and Echo, Fleet to compare settings across devices and copy them from one to the others, calls from a dashboard, turn history with recordings, a wake word library, custom tones, groups and a health view. See The EchoLocal integration.

Installing

You need an unlocked display connected over USB. Follow the XDA guide for the Smart Display 8/10 and JBL Link View or the Smart Display 7 and flash the Android 8.1 Debug Firmware. For the ThinkSmart View, ask on Discord.

Then download lanovo from the releases page:

lanovo install --name kitchen

It checks the display, installs LANovo, and asks for your Wi‑Fi if the display isn't on a network yet. It then shows up in Home Assistant, with a code on screen to pair it.

The full guide is at www.lanovo.link.

Building it yourself

make build             # lanovo, lanovod and its native helpers
make dist              # lanovod, then lanovo carrying it
make install-lanovod   # build, install, and restart it on a connected display

How it fits together

• lanovod runs on the display: the screen, the audio, the camera, the radios, the wake word engines, the conversation, and an ESPHome native API server. It is one static Go binary with no cgo.
• lanovo is the host CLI: checking, installing, Wi‑Fi and pairing.
• libcountertop holds the features LANovo shares with EchoLocal.
• go-esphome-device implements the device half of the ESPHome protocol, including the voice satellite and Bluetooth proxy.

License

AGPL-3.0. See LICENSE.