Home Assitant Running On DDWRT?

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Hi, has my post ever become more relevant than ever now that Wink has moved to a subscription model.

Now it is time for me to move forward with a new solution (away from Wink) since I am supposed to lose remote Wink access (to my Schlage) lock unless I pay the $5 / month. That being said, I have a couple of questions:

  • Since I have DDWRT, can I run Home Assistant on my DDWRT router instead of purchasing a Raspberry Pi? (It looks like maybe I can from a quick Google search)

  • Assuming I can run HA on DDWRT, are there any recommended ZigBee / Z-Wave USB dongles to use with DDWRT in the USB port?

Per a previous thread, my Schlage Lock is a Z-Wave device, but I plan to get a new Schlage lock, but I’m not sure of the exact model and don’t know if it will be Zigbee or Z-wave.

Thanks in advance!

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Do you have enough memory on your DDWRT ? I would not try it on my DDWRT’s, tried asterix once on a DDWRT, was not really a disaster, but I could not call it a success either.

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Thanks for replying… my router uses the Broadcom BCM4708 chipset and currently has:
MemTotal: 253876 kB
MemFree: 211824 kB

That being said, do you know what is needed to configure / test HA on DDWRT?

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I would heartily recommend against this. Just get yourself a cheap Raspberry Pi. A router is just not meant for this, I would not burden the device that provides my internet connection with this (beta) software.