For Meta Portal (1st generation)
Free for now — no subscription, no account
Your Portal wasn't dead.
It was waiting for Lume.
Meta discontinued Portal in 2022 and left great hardware behind. Lume Portal turns it into a beautiful always-on smart display — news, weather, markets, world clock and more — set up from your phone in minutes.
Abandoned by Meta. Not by you.
The first-generation Meta Portal is a well-built 10-inch display with good speakers — and since 2022, no purpose. The usual workarounds don't cut it:
It closes when you touch it
Browser and screensaver workarounds quit the moment you tap the screen, so you can't even navigate between views.
No remote setup
Every change means walking up to the device and fiddling with it on the spot.
One device, one setup
Nothing follows the device itself — each Portal is a new manual chore.
How it works
Three steps, no account, no cloud lock-in. Your settings live per device and can be changed from anywhere.
Install the app
Sideload one APK onto the Portal over ADB. A single command does it — see Install. No Play Store, no account needed.
Pair it
Open Lume Portal on the device. It shows a 6-character pairing code on screen.
Configure from anywhere
Enter the code at /pair/ and choose language, city, screens and news sources. The Portal picks up the new setup when the dashboard reloads.
Live demo
This is the real thing, not a mockup — the actual dashboard, running right now, framed like a Portal screen.
Live demo — the actual dashboard running right now.
Shown here in English with U.S. news sources; language and sources are configurable per device.
Everything your Portal shows
News from 11 sources
Brazil, world, tech, US and Atlanta headlines with full-screen photos.
Weather
Current conditions and a 7-day forecast for your city.
World clock
Five analog clocks: Atlanta, Los Angeles, Brasília, London and Tokyo.
Markets
S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq, Ibovespa, FTSE, DAX, Nikkei and Hang Seng at a glance.
Air quality
US AQI, health guidance and six pollutants for your city.
Bible verse
A daily verse on a classic backdrop.
Fun facts & quiz
“On this day” facts and a quick trivia quiz.
Currency
Dollar exchange rates and crypto prices with a weekly chart.
Install
One command installs the app and launches it on the Portal. Or download the APK and install it yourself. Everything is free for now — the app, the dashboard, and setup.
macOS / Linux
curl -L -o lume-portal.apk https://lumeportal.travustech.ai/downloads/lume-portal.apk && adb install -r lume-portal.apk && adb shell am start -n com.travustech.lumeportal/.MainActivityWindows (PowerShell)
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://lumeportal.travustech.ai/downloads/lume-portal.apk -OutFile lume-portal.apk; adb install -r lume-portal.apk; adb shell am start -n com.travustech.lumeportal/.MainActivityBefore you run it
- Install Android platform-tools so
adbis in your PATH. - On the Portal, enable Settings > Debug > ADB Enabled.
- Connect the Portal to your computer with a USB-C cable.
- Run
adb devicesand confirm the Portal appears in the list.
Sideloading modifies your device: install at your own risk. It may void any remaining warranty, and it is reversible — uninstalling the app restores the stock behavior. Read the full disclaimer before installing.
Open source, built in the open
Lume Portal is free and open source under the MIT license. The dashboard, the setup page, the pairing backend and the Android app are all in one public repo — fork it, improve it, and send a pull request. This is a community project: the more Portals it revives, the better.
Improve the dashboard
New screens, new feeds, new languages, better layouts — the dashboard is a single readable file.
Fix a bug or add a feature
Small, well-tested pull requests get merged fastest. Check the contributing guide for the ground rules.
Grow the community
Report issues, share your setup, help another Portal owner get theirs running again.
Lume Portal is an independent community project — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta. See the full disclaimer.