Home Assistant on an old Animus Home, how to get 433mhz working?

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Hello,

Might start off by saying that I’m a complete beginner on this whole Home Assistant “thing”. And , English is not my native language, so bear with me. And if this is the dumbest question ever asked here, or already answered in some form, sorry.

So, I have an old Animus Home that no longer is “supported” so I wanted to house a Home Assistant installation on it instead. I have installed Home Assistant to a 32gb sd card, and everything seems to run okay after the initial setup. I can for an example find my Philips Hue bridge and it works like a charm.

The “PROBLEM” is that I want to use all my 433mhz wall switches to control lamps connected to them. I think there is “build in” 433mhz antennas on the Animus Home board, but I don’t know how to get it to work in Home Assistant. I have googled my brains out, but as the complete beginner that I am I don’t understand how to “fix” it.

It seems like people have to buy an external 433mhz transmitter/receiver? to get 433mhz to work in/with Home Assistant and Raspberry Pi:s (and the Animus have a very pi-like board). The thing is, that I mentioned earlier, that I think those “things” are already “built in” to the board of the Animus Home as 433mhz worked with the Animus Home when running their own “OS”. And when opening up the Animus I can clearly see an antenna attached to the board.

What am I missing? Care to provide some help and explain to a complete beginner in Home Assistant and on Pi:s.

Sorry for the long post, and thanks!

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You are missing a driver for the radios.
Drivers are small pieces of software codes that tell the operating system how to interact with the hardware.
Home Assistant OS do not have those drivers included and probably never will.
You might install the drivers on other installation types, like a Home Assistant Core, but getting the drivers might be difficult, because these are probably, like most other things with 433Mhz, not standard.
The manufacturer of the board might know what hardware it is, but since it is not supported, then the drivers for newer operating systems might not even exist and the manufacturer is probably more interested in selling you something new than help you with an old unsupported system.

Your best bet is probably to do as the other people you have read about and buy some general 433MHz external gear and make it work with HA.

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Thank you so much for such a quick response. Not the answer I hoped for but nice to know I can stop searching for a solution that may not even exist. The company that made the Animus Home does not exist anymore, at it seems. So, the drivers used, and what kind of hardware there is, will probably never be told.

Thank you again!