Requirements

Your Wave

• An Insta360 Wave conference speakerphone, model CINSABCA.
• Stock firmware. waved has run on a Wave with stock firmware 1.1.6.6. The latest stock release, 1.2.2.6, has not been tried yet.
• A USB-C cable that carries data, not only power.

Your computer

macOS or Linux. The developers build and install from macOS; the install script also handles Linux tools (md5sum where macOS has md5).

Windows is not supported: nothing in the repository documents building or installing from it.

Tool	What it is for	Install
Rust (stable, via rustup)	Builds waved. The repository pins the stable toolchain and the aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu target.	rustup.rs
llvm-tools	llvm-objcopy, which the installer uses to strip the binary.	rustup component add llvm-tools
Docker, running	cross compiles inside a container.	Docker Desktop (macOS), Docker Engine (Linux)
cross	Cross-compiles waved for the Wave. Install it from git: release 0.2.5 has a rustup detection bug on macOS arm64.	cargo install cross --git https://github.com/cross-rs/cross
adb	Talks to the Wave over USB.	brew install android-platform-tools (macOS), sudo apt install adb (Debian, Ubuntu)
Python 3 with pyusb	Runs enable_adb.py, which turns ADB on once.	pip3 install pyusb
libusb	The USB library pyusb talks through.	brew install libusb (macOS), sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0 (Debian, Ubuntu)

Run rustup component add llvm-tools from the repository’s waved/ directory, so it lands in the toolchain the build uses.

If pip3 refuses with externally-managed-environment, add --break-system-packages, as the device access guide does:

pip3 install --break-system-packages pyusb

enable_adb.py runs with sudo, so pyusb must be importable by the python3 that sudo finds.

Disk and time

• Disk: several GB for the cross Docker image and a release build.
• Time: about half an hour, most of it the first build.

Next: Install.