# Received my Beta Tachyon today :) **URL:** \ **Category:** Tachyon\ **Tags:** tachyon\ **Created:** [June 26, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/received-my-beta-tachyon-today/69744 "2025-06-26T22:54:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Xamyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ecb155/32.png) [@Xamyr](https://community.particle.io/u/Xamyr)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/received-my-beta-tachyon-today/69744/1 "2025-06-26T22:54:05Z")
Received the board earlier today and completed the part.cl/setup-tachyon guide without much issues, except a small one that I managed quite easily ('Step 2: Device Check' required unplugging and plugging back the USB for tachyon to get picked up). I went with the desktop approach to see how well it performs in a desktop/home theatre like environment, but unfortunately found issues on the first boot. 1. My monitor with type-c connector would not work with the tachyon, board was booting fine judging by the Cyan LED. Going the HDMI and USB-C hub route solved the issue. 2. No audio output through HDMI nor the USB-C hub's audio jack. Settings only shows `Dummy Output` as an option in Settings-\>Sound-\>Output Device. 3. Tachyon seems to crash while trying to use the keyboard below, it consists of a dongle and seems to work okay if I use it as an air mouse, but once I flip it to use the keyboard, the tachyon becomes unresponsive and blacks out the screen after around 2 mins (works perfectly fine in RPI4), Logitech keyboard with built in touch pad works perfectly fine. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/particle/original/3X/0/c/0c3e376570398e1b2e4934396f91792103feae82.jpeg) Overall, I'm quite impressed of the build quality of this board and looking forward to exploring it more in the coming days, but also hope these issues will get resolved and I can some what assist you with gathering some logs 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mrlambchop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/mrlambchop/32/30767_2.png) [@mrlambchop](https://community.particle.io/u/mrlambchop)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/received-my-beta-tachyon-today/69744/2 "2025-06-29T05:55:49Z")
Hey [Xamyr](https://community.particle.io/u/Xamyr) That keyboard remove looks super fun! Can you share the model number of it so we can look into it? I would guess there is something small in the config that doesn't like whatever is happening when the keyboard is turned on (from being off). For the USB-C monitor mode, can you let us know what you connected it to? It depends if the monitor can provide the right USB-C power - if it can't, you need the hub to inject the power as you saw. You can use a HUB with USB-C PD input and USB-C output or HDMI output - glad this worked for you! For the audio output, this works over BT but there is an issue at the moment with audio in the desktop image - we're working on a fix at the moment. Thanks! Nick. ---
**Author:** ![Xamyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ecb155/32.png) [@Xamyr](https://community.particle.io/u/Xamyr)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/received-my-beta-tachyon-today/69744/3 "2025-06-29T07:55:22Z")
Hey Nick! The keyboard model is: Wechip W2, it sure doesn't like the keyboard switching, unsure about the config and where to even look for it. My monitor is: Acer Nitro XV345CURV3 34" VA WQHD 180Hz 1ms Ultrawide, it should be powerful enough for tachyon as it works without issues on with 2 other laptops, it can provide 60w PD if I remember correctly. Haven't tried BT audio, but hope that you mean fix for HDMI audio as well 🙂