I have an old Control4 Home Controller and was wondering if it possible to overwrite the image and run Home Assistant on it?
What is the hardware?
It’s a Control4 HC800
Yeah but what is inside? Is it possible to install linux on it?
Is this relevant?
No he wants to install ha on the control4 hardware.
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Thanks @pcwii but that shows how to add an existing Control4 system to Home assistant. What I am wanting to do is actually run Home Assistant on my Control4 Controller, effectively turning it into a very expensive raspberry pi…
HC800 is a dual-core (4 thread), 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525, with 2G RAM.
The Control4 OS is based on the Linux kernel, but im not sure if that is helpful or not.
Im not sure if there is a way to boot from usb to install linux, but I’m sure there are some clever folk out there that have the skills!
I read a bit about the hardware and I agree you will need to be able to install linux on it so you can start there. It seems like there is not a lot of info to do thus online. If there is a method to boot to a usb, maybe you can try something. Good luck!
What is it you’re wanting to achieve? If the hardware is unused I can see you might want to use it for HA rather than buying something new. Hacking into it to install a different OS might be challenging though. But if the hardware is already doing Control4 “stuff” then you’d be better of buying a Home Assistant Green and integrating the Control4 functions with it. Otherwise the devices connected to it will probably no longer function because they’re expecting Control4, particularly displays.
Frankly although you may be able to get HA to run, that is a very low spec machine with a 13 year old processor and only 2G RAM. Don’t waste your time.
PS I also suspect that whatever storage it has won’t be enough.