Potential alternative for the yellow? It is built for extreme environments and has a x64 CPU. No PoE mentioned though.
I would love to See HomeAssistant Orange 
A fork of yellow or green… more modern upgrades
Thread matter zigbee zwave upgrades/updates…
Long range should be enough for another home assistant bridge ie say a greenhouse assistant… on a few acers of land…
Lorawan/meshtastic addons for weather stations… in area…
2 nvme slots ie frigate other security camera ai features or ollama uses voice ai etc…
And data poe also…
https://axelera.ai, halio ai, etc…
Since the hardware documentation for the Yellow was removed from Home Assistant website I’ll point to the issue filed Publish Pinion PCB documentation on updated website support section · Issue #41757 · home-assistant/home-assistant.io · GitHub
Very strangely someone instantly linked to a pull request but closed the pull request before allowing for a review. I don’t know what is going on there.
Aside the Yellow being discontinued is sad for riscv64 adoption since this is in any capacity one of the better PoE-powered with NVMe storage options for unusual CM4 boards not produced by Raspberry Pi foundation. The thermals are a problem though, I wish it was designed with passive cooling that could dissipate heat more effectively. It’s too bad they’re not able to optimize costs to sell more of these as the CM4 system-on-module format has been implemented by a healthy diversity of vendors.
What? Are you sure documentation for the Home Assistant Yellow has been removed? If documentation for the Home Assistant Yellow been removed then it was probably a mistake, or maybe it was just moved and whoever moved it forgot to leave a redirect to direct to where it was moved.
While “End of production” can mean “end of sale”, it does not mean “end of support” nor “end of life”. The documentaction for Home Assistant Yellow should still remain online and available as the product is still supported and those who bought it in the past still need access to the documentation.
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Sorry to have missed out on this, but please put this information on the product page. It was frustrating to get excited about a build using Yellow, only to find that it’s no longer available.
Back to the drawing board!
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I can only hope that it will be replaced by an updated device.
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The main reason I went with HA yellow was PoE power and that it had all the radios in one place. The ability to take CM5 was a plus, and the M.2 expansion slot gave me hope for an AI accelerator for voice recognition. So whatver you decide to replace it with, can you please consider the list above? I like a thread radio, still take the ZWave modules, zigbee 4.0 maybe if thread hasn’t killed zigbee by then. BT BLE would be nice too.
I deployed some yellows at my factory for reading a large sensor network and the ability to PoE matters a LOT in there. Hard to find a normal power outlet to plug a wall wort into. I was planning to buy several more so please move out the new version quickly.
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My homemade pi creation recently collapsed and I am exploring something new. The yellow felt right up my alley, but I see it’s discontinued.
For the replacement, it would be nice to go even more powerful. Valve is releasing a new Steam Machine. A collaboration with them would be perfect.
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I am considering upgrading my HA Yellow from a CM4 to a CM5.
Now the documentation mentions a Bag labeled CM5 containing screws and heat pads specially for the CM5.
Is it somehow possible to order this bag separate?
CM5 heatsink discussion here.
I simply used my HA Yellow’s CM4 heatsink and thermal pads as described in the above post. Works fine for me.
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I would love a version of the HA Green with PoE and NVMe. That’d be the perfect HA device to me!
What you’re describing is pretty much exactly what the HA Yellow is. Unfortunately, no longer produced. However, you can pretty much replicate it using the following RPi CM5 based system. Just add a CM5 and you have everything the Yelliw had except the built-in Zigbee module.
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Apart Form a Lack of storage the homey pro & Bridge Look good as they have all radio systems integrated and can extend your coverage across your property.
That should serve as your inspiration.
Using small range extenders outside wifi with esp32 is an annoying diy project right now
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This heatsink solution works very well, has the proper thermal pads, and you can screw it down properly for a very good thermal interface
The Old CM4 heatsink solution can be used if you get the thermal pads right. The heights are different through and the clip isn’t strong enough to squish the pads properly so if you get the height wrong like I did it won’t perform very well.
I would love to see the next model to be like the green, simple and easy to setup. But would like to see built-in zigbee and zwave antennas.
Also with updated CPU/Memory(As its newer, more horsepower).
Maybe the ability to install micro SD cards for more/flexible storage. Maybe support 1 TB?
Again, goal like the HA Green, simple and plug and play.
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