techo5
Open firmware for the Echo Show 5 (2nd gen): Alpine Linux instead of Android, no Alexa. A local Home Assistant voice satellite with its own touch screen, on-device wake word, SSH and A/B over-the-air updates.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 53 upvotes (top 16%) · 7 views
Niche: smart home automation software · 107 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
- alexa-alternative
- alpine-linux
- cronos
- echo-show
- echo-show-5
- esphome
- +10 more
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Could you build this?
No Flashing and creating custom Linux firmware for locked consumer hardware like the Amazon Echo Show 5 requires deep embedded systems expertise, bootloader exploit capabilities, hardware probing, and kernel driver porting.
What it would actually take: Building this requires finding hardware exploit vectors (e.g., MediaTek bootrom vulnerabilities like amonet/kamakiri via USB DAA/SLA bypass) to unlock the proprietary bootloader. The developer must then port the mainline Linux kernel or custom vendor drivers for the MediaTek SoC, write display/touch drivers, configure Alpine Linux userland, and implement an A/B partition OTA update system.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 90 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 91 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 140 days after the earliest competitor.
- techo5-dot · github · 2026-09-16 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- techo5-spot · github · 2026-09-17 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- HAwake · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- lineageos-echo-kiosk-satellite · github · 2026-10-23 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- kiosk-satellite-dashboard · github · 2026-10-20 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- VoxRT Voice AI Runtime · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Amazon Alexa Tablets · ph · 2026-10-09 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Aria Magic Voice · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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