About Helios

Helios - a Home Assistant face for the Lenovo Smart Clock 2 Helios turns a Lenovo Smart Clock 2 into a Home Assistant wall panel: a 4x3 dashboard configured entirely from Home Assistant, local "Okay Nabu" wake word into the HA Assist pipeline, and the clock as a Music Assistant player. It is a sideloaded Android launcher for one specific piece of hardware. It does not need Google's services, does not replace your default launcher unless you ask it to, and talks to nothing but your own Home Assistant. Languages The clock interface supports Polish, English and German. It follows Android's language by default; for other system languages it falls back to Polish. Open the Helios menu and tap **Language** to cycle through Automatic, Polski, English and Deutsch. The choice is saved on the clock and the interface reloads immediately. Dates and numeric readings use the selected language's formatting. Names and text supplied by Home Assistant remain as configured there. The Polish text in the Java source is the fallback. English and German entries live in app/src/main/assets/i18n/en.json and de.json. When adding interface text, wrap the Polish source string with I18n.t(...) and add the same key to both catalogues. Keep protocol identifiers and action keys untranslated. The English translations were adapted from Mark Graham's English interface fork. The application keeps its own update…

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