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by zozbot234 1643 days ago
It's likely expecting to boot from a custom vendor kernel, even after being placed in "developer mode" - which is probably why the "rooting" procedure is so involved. Look, I get that this has a nice amount of RAM and all, but a lot of this random IoT junk is just not worth supporting.
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There's some nice bits of hardware in there. Notably, there's a Zigbee radio, so getting OpenWRT and running Home Assistant is totally a possibility.