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.
Details
- External ID
- 1370660373
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- techo5
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 53
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8346143991801178
- Tags
- alexa-alternative, alpine-linux, cronos, echo-show, echo-show-5, esphome, firmware, home-assistant, linux, local-first, microwakeword, mt8163, ota-updates, privacy, voice-assistant, wake-word
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open firmware for echo show devices
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 40 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 41 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 164 days after the earliest competitor.
- techo5-dot · github · 2026-09-16 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- techo5-spot · github · 2026-09-17 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- VoxRT Voice AI Runtime · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- aixleo-io-android · github · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Doubao Say · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ServerBox · github · 2026-09-26 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- jarvis · github · 2026-09-25 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- car-systemui-win98-pod · github · 2026-09-15 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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