Bricked Meta Portals are now TRMNL friendly

hi everyone, quick BYOD guide today, powered by suggestions and work by community members JackR and Hossain Khan.

[https://trmnl.com/blog/meta-portal](https://trmnl.com/blog/meta-portal)

**TLDR** \- buy a used Meta Portal on eBay for < $50, then make it a TRMNL with full color support (or black/white, or grayscale) in just a few minutes. connect it to our core server or run \~any of the BYOS self hosted server clients.