Way back at the beginning of my figuring out home automation, I bought a Animus Heart.

It’s ok but it’s extremely limited and the UI is terribly sluggish and unwieldy, so I’d like to replace the OS with Home Assistant instead.

I have reason (my router recognising it as a such when it crashed) to believe that on the inside it’s just a Raspberry Pi with some added bells and whistles.

Has anyone tried this? Is this feasible?

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    1 year ago

    For future users stumbling upon this:

    I have investigated further, and it is indeed a raspberry pi-like board.

    It comes with its OS on a microSD, so it’s very easy to tinker without risking much.

    I have been able to boot raspbian for Pi Zero 2 W on it, and i’m now testing with a home assistant install.

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      1 year ago

      Update 2: Home assistant from the normal raspberry pi SD flasher worked like a charm out of the box.

      It’s basically just a custom raspberry pi board with some integrated antennas and apparently a temperature and humidity sensor included.

      That’s it, everything else went fine too, overall a strong purchase.