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The intro video does an excellent job of hiding the fact that this needs a power cord. There's one quick shot shows a hole drilled into the middle of the kitchen island to provide access to the USB-C cord.
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I was looking for the power cord as well, and required actually looking for it.

I’m curious about the wall mounted option, and how that gets power without an electrician running a line to the middle of the wall. It looked like there might be a PoE option, but that also needs cable run. It seems like a bit of a project.

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> It looked like there might be a PoE option, but that also needs cable run

“Power Mount PoE Wired” is an option that will be available in early 2027. I can already see this being a decent option for kitchens that had a wall phone plate (that, hopefully, was wired with Cat 5e…).

Paired with some yet-to-be-released homeOS VoIP app… chefs kiss.

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homeOS VoIP app

Like FaceTime?

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Like something that would integrate with an existing SIP server like FreePBX.
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I’m curious about the wall mounted option, and how that gets power without an electrician running a line to the middle of the wall.

People wall-mount flat screen TVs without an electrician all the time, and it's no big deal. Because of its size, this should be even simpler.

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That only works if you live in a paper house. Drilling through normal brick/concrete walls is not that easy - we do call someone when we need our wall mounted TV setup.
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I doubt you live in a house where every single wall is brick or concrete. Unless you live in a nuclear bunker.

I live in a concrete building, and only the exterior walls and one or two interior walls are concrete. The rest is normal walls that for some reason you refer to as "paper." I guess they don't have lumber in your country.

You're just inventing problems where none exist.

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Give us a Home Assistant integration and watch these sell like hotcakes :)
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Yep. I'd pre-order 3 today if i could get it with first class HomeAssistant app support.
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