Home Assistant Yellow

The Home Assistant Yellow Kit with Power Supply is a smart home hub powered by Raspberry Pi CM4 that has over 2,500 built-in integrations and supports hundreds of thousands of devices and services for easy control of various aspects of your home with powerful automation capabilities, energy consumption tracking, and the latest Zigbee radio chip for smart home connectivity.

Feature

• Ready-to-use and Fully-supported Home Assistant: One software controls the integration with over 1,000 different devices and services, making it really help people control various aspects of the home like lights, thermostats, TV, music, and more.
• Powerful Automation Capabilities: Offer automation editor for customization while providing pre-made automation blueprints contributed by the Home Assistant community.
• Energy Consumption Tracking and Management: Pair with supported sensing hardware, enabling people to monitor their energy usage and trends over time.
• High Expandability and Scalability: Equip M.2 slot supporting NVMe SSD hard drive, and provide smart-home wireless that supports Zigbee 3.0, OpenThread, and Matter.
• Dual Power Supply: Support both Power-over-Ethernet power supply and power adapter.

Description

Home Assistant Yellow Kit with Power Supply is a smart home hub powered by Raspberry Pi CM4. It is a ready-to-use and fully supported Home Assistant where that has over 2,500 built-in integrations and supports hundreds of thousands of devices and services Integrations - Home Assistant, making it really help people control various aspects of the home like lights, thermostats, TV, music, and more.

This board has equipped powerful automation capabilities by offering an automation editor to users and helping them create intelligent rooms, buildings, or parks. There are also available Latest Blueprints Exchange topics - Home Assistant Community contributed by the Home Assistant community, for users directly using it.

It only requires one software to manage all the equipment. Meanwhile, there are also services that can be used in the Home Assistant Demo and automation for users to get information about the commute like the air quality in the area, or the latest currency exchange rates. Paired with supported sensing hardware, it enables people to monitor their energy usage and trends over time, offering Home Energy Management - Home Assistant and management.

The Home Assistant Yellow Kit with Power Supply includes the latest Zigbee radio chip from Silicon Labs, which is forward-compatible with the upcoming Matter smart home connectivity standard. 

It includes an M.2 expansion port for NVMe SSD hard drive for expanding available space. It contains a gigabit Ethernet, 2 USB 2.0 Type-A host ports, and 1 USB-C 2.0 device port. It also has a high-quality stereo audio DAC with a 2V RMS line out on a 3.5mm audio jack.

The board supports both the Power-over-Ethernet power supply and power adapter. With a PoE-compatible switch or router, you can communicate and power Home Assistant Yellow with a single Ethernet cable.

Application

• Smart Home Automation
• Energy Management
• Home Security
• Health Monitoring
• HVAC automation
• Home entertainment automation
• Environmental monitoring

Specification

Specification	Value
Board Size	12 cm x 12 cm
Processor	Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARMv8) 64-bit / 1.5 GHz
RAM	Up to 8 GB
Storage	Up to 32 GB eMMC
Expansion Slot	M.2 socket for NVMe SSDs (2230, 2242, 2260, 2280)
PCIe	PCIe x1
Ethernet	Gigabit Ethernet
PoE Supported	Yes
USB Ports	2 x USB 2.0 Type-A host port, 1 x USB-C 2.0 device port
Audio	High-quality stereo audio DAC
Wireless	Silicon Labs MGM210P Mighty Gecko Module
Wireless Protocols	Zigbee 3.0, OpenThread, and Matter
Wireless Radio	2.4 GHz with TX power up to +20 dBm
Pre-installed Firmware	Zigbee 3.0 (EZSP), can be upgraded
Power	12 V / 2 A through barrel DC power jack
LEDs	Green (Power), Red (Disk usage), Yellow (Home Assistant system state)
Buttons	Red (Factory reset), Blue (To be determined)
RTC	Backed by CR2032 battery
Enclosure	Translucent injection-molded polycarbonate plastic Tool-free assembly Accommodates custom heat sink (included)
Enclosure Size	123 mm x 123 mm x 36 mm
Typical Power Usage	Idle ~1.5 W, Idle with NVMe ~2.5 W, Load ~5-9 W

 

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