Vim1S with Home Assistant OS

VIM1S
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Which system do you use?

I’m new with this device that i bought because of its electricity consume and ability to run Home Assisatnt requested power to make it usable nicely. It has Wifi 5 too and Bluettoth, and so on.
But wait, your OOWOW image is old and does not fully support the Wifi driver. The consequence is to degrade the router Wifi security down to WPA-PSK instead to let it on WPA3 or wpa2/WP3. That is a very bad point. Also, there is the dmesg text out on the main console at all time (ok: dmesg -D is enough to shut em up, but come on…), and as clients noticed, no way to config an other one keyboard device out on EN layout if not connected to network to install what is missing.
So now, i’m trying to just install from SD card HomeAssistant OS, but it can just not boot on SD card of this HA generic aarch64 image (15.2), not the khadas_vim3 one. It can just not boot the SD card.
All there is outdated after only 2 years and a very nice SBBC device that can be able to make it run HA smoothly at low electric consume cost.
The idea is also to trust the Khadas team support when i buy one of there device and not to use it 6 month or to see the tools move all around the github repo continuousmly and search longer than find something else to run it.
I was also unable to just install the image from the USB with the appropriated tools (outdated ?) and i read a lot of wrong information around because it seems that the life time of files location in the repo is long about a month only (i don’t know why you move things so much… what is the idea, i want to be instructed and to stop to run for nothing for a file).

Congratulation for your support ideas and i hoep i would find an help around there to just install HA OS with full deriver support without the need to degrade the safety at some place around the device to see it communicate on the LAN or outside.

Which version of system do you use? Please provide the i build things from my Ubuntu-25.04, but plan to install HA OS 15.2 (latest)

Please describe your issue below:

Can not boot SD card to install something else other than OOWOW outdated images.

Post a console log of your issue below:

At this level of post, there is no console log, but ask if you have an idea to do something that can be try.

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@jerome

Could you please share which image you have tried? Was it vim1s-ha-supervised-debian-11-minimal-linux-5.4-fenix-1.5.1-230623?

I would suggest you to try using Home assistant supervised image from Armbian - https://dl.armbian.com/khadas-vim1s/Bookworm_legacy_minimal-homeassistant. You can flash it to a sdcard using balena etcher, Raspberry Pi imager or any other tool you prefer. You can flash it to EMMC over the network by booting it to OOWOW and using the following command from a computer

curl <vim1s_host_name>/shell/write | sh -s - <image_path>

That image uses Mainline 6.12 kernel. VIM1S still in the process of being mainlined. So that image will not work on VIM1S. We are working on a Home Assistant Image for VIM1S and it will be released soon. Meanwhile you can try using the HA supervised image from Armbian.

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Hi @viraniac, and thank you for your help.
Yes, it was the Debian-11 image from OOWOW, correct.
And yes again, i tried yesterday evening the Armbian-25 Bookworm OS with HA supervised image i found there in an other one post and it is fantastic, it works nice. I did install it on SD card, then erase eMMC from OOWOW menu, then boot on SD card to run command “armbian-install” and get it installed on eMMC. The installation process is perfect because he asked for the very first step keyboard layout used and timezone, wifi connection (and able to connect on WPA2 or 3 maybe, i have to look closer).
I used dd command, but balena Etcher should works to (let’s notice that HA OS 15.2, can not be write with Balena Etcher, but anyway, HA OS 15.2 doesn’t support Vim1s device. They seems to have an image for Vim3, but not for Vim1s).

Ho yes, i was thinking about this kernel-6 to be the potential challenge to go with. That’s it.
I hope this device vim1s to get more attention from Khadas dev team because i trust it to be a fantastic device for specific use-case for IoT concern and maybe media audio device. I like the very low power consomed by this device.