Thanks @darkxst, my HAOS is now up and running. One funny thing i encountered, i used a fixed ip address, assigned to my iHost earlier. This is why i was curious and thought the red light would indicate and error. I seems my MAC changed…and my router assigned this installation an new IP. Well long story short - it’s working fine with some minor issues. I am still struggling to get the zigbee controller implemented. I used EZSP /dev/ttyS4 (baudrate is 115200) . Overall process was quite easy. - Replace right side from Ihost Cover - soder those two above mentioned pins - flash image and you are literally good to go. To be fair, the red Led, made me think i made a mistake and the changed Mac Address wasn’t also that obvious but overall it was really not that hard. If i could get Zigbee up and running & that red Led indicator shut off, i would go quite far and say this is a far better alternative than Home Assistant Yellow or Green. Thank you very much for your time and effort to port this Image on this Device! Great work @darkxst
The original MAC address gets blown away when you wipe the flash, but even if it wasnt no way to read it!. As we are using mainline kernel/u-boot, MAC address is generated from your cpuid and thus will be different than when you used the stock OS. Or in your case the flash is disabled, but still couldnt use if it wasnt!
ZHA seems to have troubles with the stock 6.7 firmware you need to update using ‘Silabs Flasher’ Addon with custom url. There are links on the Wiki page for 6.10.7 and 7.3.2 firmwares
Support for the indicator (and buttons) will be coming later. For now you can manually control it via the python script I linked previously. You can run this script in the Advanced SSH addon, but you need to add some python packages to the config:
You can probably use the init_commands to run the script when addon starts up after boot.
Good evening, great work, but I think I made a mistake. I followed a linux mode/maskROM tutorial and thought about installing homeassistant but I made a mistake and I don’t know how to do it, thank you.
thank you I will try and let you know if everything works
because almost 1 year after 1st release, there’s still no backup/export/import solution for this thing… if it crashes, you’re lost, and forced to start over again…
There are plenty more benefits to running HAOS rather than HA Docker, some of the main ones being access to addons and direct access to ZIgbee (via ZHA or Z2M).
You contributed a lot to ihost users. I tried activating maskrom and installing HA as was done on Raspberry… but as you know, without success. when I was already thinking about throwing my ihost in the trash I saw your work and tested it (patiently) and it was perfect! Now I’m going to add other firmware like ZigBee and others…
Here is a library for the yc1175. This will form the basis of upcoming custom integration for Home Assistant, but in the meanwhile you can use this from within the Advanced SSH addon.
pip install yc1175-indicator
# main rgb indicator, blue flashing
indicator-cli 4 --effect 2 --rgb 0 0 255
I’m ready to try your project,
is there a way to restore ihost back to its original working
i also wonder where , is the installation of the home assistant on the built-in 8gb emmc memory or on the sd card?
Hey! First you have to use the SD card to install the installation facilitator on the MMC. Then you use the SD card to install the definitive home assistant.
how does it work??
currently no, once you wipe eMMC its gone. If you want to keep original ihost software. Short the maskRom pins permanently and then run HAOS off the sd card. That way you can later remove the short to get back old ihost OS.
I know you all been waiting for this, so here is the first release of custom indicator integration!
thanks for your work, i just offered some support in coffies 
I am helping with the documentation, look here: HAOS on Sonoff iHost · darkxst/ha-operating-system Wiki · GitHub
Perfect, I tested the indicator integration and it worked well. Anxious to have control over the intensity… The light was very strong.
You can try test this branch for brightness
EDIT: Ive made a new release 0.2.0
- Implement brightness for indicator
- Add config settings for indicator startup state
- Allow reconfigure installed integration
- Fix Zigbee2MQTT Pairing
I tested it now and it works well. At 1% it was great for not giving so much glare in a dark room.