SkieCan we provision devices if we do not have a laptop?
Yes. Use the Skie Provision app on an Android phone. It signs you in through the browser, pairs with the reset device over Wi-Fi and runs the setup with a guided stepper, so no laptop, cable or adb is needed. A tablet or phone with Wi-Fi and a reset device is enough.
Many small schools, hostels and offices do not have a spare laptop in the room where devices are unboxed, and many parents do not own one. The Provision app was built for those cases. You can do the whole setup from an Android phone.
What you need is short. An Android phone with the Provision app from Google Play. A device that has been reset and has the Google account skipped. A Wi-Fi network both can use, with internet. And a Skie account with permission to provision the group.
The process mirrors the laptop route. You pass the gate, sign in in your browser, choose the student and group, and pair with the device. The stepper installs Skie and sets the device owner, showing live progress. The one-time token is fetched for you. The model and licence checks run before any change.
Two limits are honest to state. Pairing is over Wi-Fi today, and a wired route from the app is not available yet. And each device is a separate run, because faster bulk flows are not available yet either. A laptop does not change that, so for a large rollout the main benefit of either route is consistency.
Practical tip: keep a power bank with the setup phone and do the tablets in a quiet room with good signal. For the laptop alternative see laptop provisioning, and for the app itself see the Provision app.
- Android phone and the Provision app
- Reset device with the Google account skipped
- Wi-Fi pairing, no cable or adb
- Wired pairing and bulk flows are not available yet