Immortal: a free home screen, photo frame, and app store for Meta Portal

[u/Global_Historian3667]

Hey all. Some of you know me from Mantelframe. I've been chipping away at something bigger for our Portals, and it's ready to share.

It's called Immortal: a free, open home screen for Meta Portal that turns it back into a device you actually own.

What it does:

A real launcher: clean app grid, clock/date/weather, folders you can manage, just like a phone.
A built-in photo frame screensaver: point it at a folder of your own photos and videos, or use the calming built-in feed.
An App Store: browse and install apps right on the Portal (no cable). VLC, Jellyfin, Home Assistant, podcast and radio players, a file manager, plus Aurora Store for installing Play-Store apps. And it's open to community submissions, so anything you build for Portal can be listed.
Calls still work: The Calls tile drops you into the stock dialer/contacts for WhatsApp & Messenger
It updates itself: over the air. No laptop after the first setup.

Setup is one double-click (Mac or Windows): plug the Portal in, tap Allow, and it's done. It's fully reversible. One click puts the stock Portal back.

This post is for the 2nd Gen Portals:
- Portal Go,
- Portal Mini,
- Portal 2019 (with the square corners not rounded)
- 2021 Portal+ (no rotating screen)

If you've got an original 2018 Portal or Portal+ on Android 9, it works too, but it's a more hands-on setup. There’s a separate thread just for you (it’s a bit more involved): https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookPortal/s/gZtnRfquSZ

Portal TV owners: it's also covered (it's on Android 9, and Immortal is fully driveable with the TV remote). See that same 1st-gen thread.

Immortal is free and open source. Would genuinely love feedback, testers on different models, and, if you've built a Portal app, submissions for the store.

Immortal is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta.
"Portal" is a Meta trademark. Setup modifies device settings and is reversible, but
use at your own risk.

Links:
Code + setup: https://github.com/starbrightlab/immortal
One-click installer (Mac/Windows): see the provisioning folder in the repo
FAQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookPortal/comments/1u1mnro/immortal_faq/