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?
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.
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.