Khadas VIM1S Single Board Computer SBC With Amlogic S905Y4, 2.0GHz Quad Core Cortex-A35 CPU, 1176MHz 2GB 32-bit LPDDR4 16GB eMMC, Supports Android/Ubuntu System For Maker/Office/Smarhome/Music DIY

I bought this in 2022 and it is an awesome SBC for lightweight applications like pinhole, jellyfin or desktop. It's better for media playback with a small projector and uses 5v 480ma. It sips power while connected to sound bars and gamepads via Bluetooth. WiFi is quick and I can remote play with the Xbox with Android. No loss of frames in 1080p with YouTube.

I set this up for a homeassitant setup for my solar system. Thr unit is well made and with the addition of a case does the job. I'm overall impressed with Khadas both for price amd setup as the built in software leads tou through setup. My only note and a reduction of two point is to point out in my opinion this type of unit is not suitable for heavy use, my own syst3m pulls data regularly and is always on collecting data from the system for the houshold systems. After a year of use the built in memory was at 79% of its lifetime recomended use. So for smallninstallas or non intensive use this is ideal if a complex data system buy a mini pc.

Since this is a newish device and I am aware that Khadas continually improve the firmware The below are my findings Ease of use : OOWOW , it works Here can only comment on the Ubuntu desktop For a beginner default apps work fine Advanced info . Installing certain apps . Some fail to work as expected : of note if gl based Fallback use SNAP Again some fail, esp on open file or save file . use “ snap run “ app A search reveals backends are required, esp in the xdg arena Of note search synaptic xdg-desktop-portal + the gtk version Nearly gave up on this device . Not now

Worked straight out of the box. An excellent little singe board computer. Perhaps a replacement for a Raspberry Pi in certain applications . Tried it with Android and Ubuntu.

Great little SBC and supper easy to setup. I'm using it for a digital dashboard and it works great

Seems a bit underpowered. Tried it for Kodi YouTube and suffered some frame stutter. At time of writing no Vulkan support. Works well in headless modes like pi-hole or camera monitor.

It came with already arndroid preinstalled on it. And it is not possible to flash another os on to it. It is bad what I check it so late. As it is possible only boot ubuntu 3 times pressing button all the time. Dissapointed.